| Black Agenda Report

Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Democracy Now Provides Progressive Cover to State Department Propaganda Campaign Against China
24 Feb 2021
The show has become a reliable platform for uncritical regime change propaganda, demonizing targets of US empire from Syria to Nicaragua. “DN often acts as a force multiplier for the State Department.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rusesabagina’s Show Trial and Shooting Deaths of a Rwandan Dissident and an Italian Ambassador
24 Feb 2021
Is there any limit to how far the West will go to cover for Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s Crimes? asks Ann Garrison. “With every war, kidnapping, and murder on foreign soil, Kagame’s critics ask if he’s finally gone too far, while the US is still Rwanda’s top bilateral donor.”
Black Agenda Review Editors
BLACK CITIZENSHIP FORUM: The Roots of Xenophobic Violence in South Africa—A Pan African Response
24 Feb 2021
South Africa must dismantle and transcend the colonial nation-state through creation of a Pan-African federation that stretches across the Southern African sub-continent. “Madalitso Zililo Phiri traces the contemporary rise of xenophobia in South Africa to the colonial and imperial formation…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: No Human Rights in Texas
24 Feb 2021
The people of Texas suffer unnecessarily from bad weather because their state puts oligarchs first and does not recognize the human right to health and safety. “Consumers pay unregulated utilities who are allowed to charge a fluctuating wholesale price which soars when demand is high.” Texas, the…
Pavan Kulkarni
Massive General Strike in South Africa Highlights Demand for Radical Policy Changes
03 Mar 2021
Millions of workers took part in the general strike on February 24, according to the South African Federation of Trade Unions which called for the labor action. “What is different this time is the realization that the ANC has betrayed the working class.”
Margaret Flowers
Popular Resistance: Small Acts Can Become a Power No Government Can Suppress
03 Mar 2021
Together, we can demand that one of the wealthiest nations on earth upholds its responsibility to provide the basic necessities for its people. “The Biden administration is backtracking on promises made on the campaign trail.” The American Rescue Plan (ARP) was passed in the House this past week…
Jon Jeter
An Open Letter to Chris Hedges: Racism, Not 'Cancel Culture' is the Problem
03 Mar 2021
The author, a former corporate journalist like Hedges, reminds him that white workers betrayed Black workers and class solldarity, not the other way around. “Is coddling racists your best advice for winning the class war?” Dear Chris Hedges:
Pan-African Community Action
The Radical Practicality of Community Control Over Policing: A Reply to Our Critics
03 Mar 2021
Once we are able to secure Community Control over Police and ensure that entire communities are empowered to exercise such control, we will be free to re-imagine and re-envision the very nature of policing itself. “Our goal is ‘community control, whether over public safety, land, budgets, or…
Joseph G. Ramsey
How Should Revolutionaries Relate to this Film? 15 Lessons from Judas and the Black Messiah
03 Mar 2021
Let’s not allow our revolutionary wish-list to keep us from appreciating the ways this film intervenes—with force and clarity—in our present American political discourse. “The vulnerability to state coercion created by widespread criminalization creates the deadly potential for turning oppressed…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Asma Barlas’s “Believing Women in Islam”
03 Mar 2021
This book focuses on whether discrimination and violence against Muslim women are sanctioned by the Qur’an, as critics of Islam allege. “This ideology of male supremacy that Muslims have grafted into the Qur’an actually runs counter to its teachings about both God and about human beings.”