| Black Agenda Report

Andrea Germanos
WHO Chief Blasts 'Grotesque' Vaccine Inequality as Rich Nations Block Speedy End of Global Pandemic
31 Mar 2021
"As long as the virus continues to circulate anywhere, people will continue to die, trade and travel will continue to be disrupted, and the economic recovery will be further delayed." “Some 56 percent of the doses have been administered in high-income countries accounting for 16 percent of the…
Loretta Graceffo
Garment Workers Win $22 Billion in Historic Victory Against Wage Theft
31 Mar 2021
When the Covid-19 pandemic cut into corporate profits, the fashion industry simply stole billions from some of the world’s most exploited workers. “From its foundation, PayUp’s strategy has been to discern which brands are moveable and to then target those brands using grassroots pressure…
Arif Bulkan and Alissa Trotz
Oil Fuels Guyana’s Internecine Conflict
31 Mar 2021
Guyana’s historically oppressed peoples direct their hostility at each other while neo-imperial powers hide in plain sight and reap the country’s wealth. “Claims of absolute differences between the two major parties contending for state power are belied by their joint complicity as brokers…
BAP Haiti Committee
We Say Quite Clearly: 'U.S. Out of Haiti!'
31 Mar 2021
While Biden is telling Haitians “Don’t come over,” Haiti and its allies have been saying “U.S. Out of Haiti.” “Biden has already broken records for the scope, speed, and scale of the deportation of Haitian immigrants.” On Wednesday, March 25th, the United States Embassy in Haiti tweeted, in Haitian…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jayna Brown’s “Black Utopias”
31 Mar 2021
I am hoping my call will provoke/inspire us to practice forms of life and liveliness differently. “I’d like to promote an awareness that humans are not the center of the universe, but merely a temporary presence in it.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Catie Coe’s Book, “The New American Servitude”
31 Mar 2021
Senior care puts care workers into racialized, gendered, and age hierarchies, making it difficult for them to achieve social and economic mobility. Senior care workers are regularly subjected to racial insults and demonstrations of power—and effectively turned into servants.”
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
31 Mar 2021
This week the U.S. state’s propaganda and the Black elite were on your minds. We share your letters for “New Cold War is Built on Humanitarian Interventionist Lies and Dismissal of Actual War Crimes” and “US Black Elite Tied to Capitalism, Not Black Liberation.”
Sonali Chakravarti
Derek Chauvin and the Myth of the Impartial Juror
31 Mar 2021
As a space for democratic deliberation and decision-making, the jury box still has the potential to shift the criminal legal system – but first we must change who is able to serve on a jury. “The legitimacy of the criminal legal system is in tatters, and rightfully so.” Did you, or…
Onyesonwu Chatoyer
African Women, Don’t Be a Mammy for Empire
31 Mar 2021
All too often we witness petit-bourgeois African women willingly taking positions of leadership, power, and influence within the political and military infrastructure of the United States. “They only got to where they are today by a complete rejection of not only their own people, but all poor and…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Shinobu, is this what solidarity looks like?
31 Mar 2021
Now, I wasn’t Yuri Kochiyama amidst toppled chairs, gun smoke scented chaos, cradling Malcolm’s heavy head on the Audubon Ballroom floor as his double ought buck shot pocked chest oozed ruby rivulets… I arrived at the Asian elder split second after the unmusical thud of his head hitting…