| Black Agenda Report

Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Real Resistance Begins
11 Nov 2020
“Kamala Auntie” and Joe from Scranton will do as little as possible so that “nothing will fundamentally change” that would halt endless wars and the Race to the Bottom. “We have already lived through phony change and emotional theatrics instead of political action.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Black Voters: “Contrarian” Men and “Communal” Women
12 Nov 2020
A significant portion of Black males are “contrarians” that take positions at odds with the general Black political consensus – while Black women tend to take the communal approach. “Black women are significantly more ‘communal’ (my term) than Black men in their political behavior.”
David Gilbert
Letters of Life from Slow Death Row
18 Nov 2020
Tiyo Attallah Salah-El’s exemplary life (without parole) is testament to the human spirit and the cause of abolition. “We learn a lot about the realities of prison, see a stellar example of a wonderfully productive life.” (OR Books, New York and London). 240 pages. E-book…
Flint Taylor
Torture Survivor Jackie Wilson Exonerated in Pandemic Murder Trial
18 Nov 2020
Wilson’s 40-year ordeal has ended, but his attorneys hope to make Chicago prosecutors pay for their crimes. “Jackie and his brother were tortured by notorious police lieutenant Jon Burge and his crew of ‘ass-kickers’ into making confessions.
Margaret Flowers
We’ll Have to Fight Corporate Democrats for Medicare for All
18 Nov 2020
We must not allow the Democrats to weaken our demand that every person in the United States have access to the care they need. “National improved Medicare for all is the most Constitutionally-sound healthcare system.”
Riva Enteen
Don’t [Mourn] Celebrate, Organize!
18 Nov 2020
The same “injustice” system that unlawfully locked up the Central Park Five will continue unabated with Biden and his “top cop” sidekick. “The stimulus has been cut off since July, the eviction moratorium is about to end, and people are suffering, dreadfully.”
Tye Salandy
Biden-Harris and the Diverse Faces of U.S. Imperialism
18 Nov 2020
From Obama v McCain to Biden v Trump, the good cop/bad cop drama of US imperial politics, continues. “U.S. racism is recognized in its overt and hostile (Trumpian and Republican) forms but not in its everyday manifestations.”
Vijay Prashad
Sanctions Against Venezuela Will Continue Under Biden
18 Nov 2020
There is every indication that a Biden administration will maintain the punitive sanctions against Venezuela, suffocating the country during the pandemic. “Biden’s language echoes Trump’s worse phrase—'shithole countries.’” In June, Joe Biden — who will be the U.S. president in January 2021—…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Pamela Ayo Yetunde and Cheryl A. Giles’s “Black and Buddhist”
18 Nov 2020
Activists and community organizers have never known the precariousness of the threats they face today. “There are Black Buddhists who are also in solidarity for Black liberation.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: David Vine’s “The United States of War”
18 Nov 2020
American warfare has been waged almost exclusively against people of color, dating to independence and 1492. “U.S. wars have made the country and the world less secure and more vulnerable to the real threats to our security.”