| Black Agenda Report

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kathryn Sophia Belle’s “Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question”
06 May 2021
Arendt saw the “Negro question” as a “Negro problem” rather than a white problem. “We can imagine how Arendt might similarly mischaracterize today’s movements for Black Lives.”
Broderick Dunlap
A Dose of Reality for the #ADOS Movement
06 May 2021
Instead of showing solidarity with the third world, ADOS makes it clear that they want their share of the spoils of imperialism. “Is the ADOS movement evidence that African-Americans are not immune to the vestiges of American exceptionalism?”
Adofo Minka
Black Girl Magic Trio Seeks to Suppress Spirit of Rebellion Inside St. Louis Jails
06 May 2021
The trio of so-called “progressive” female officeholders pretend to fight the power, but only misdirect and bewilder. “The point of ‘black unity’ is for action against the common people’s oppressor, not rallying around the oppressors who look like us.”
Black Alliance For Peace
100 Days of Biden's Bait and Switch
06 May 2021
U.S. policies are not guided by the whims of the individual who sits in the White House, but by the objective interests of dominant sectors of the ruling elite. “The Biden administration cannot pretend that Black lives matter in the United States, while denying the value of Black life and democracy…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Police Terror = “Support The Troops!”—1,000 x in ________
06 May 2021
Police Terror = “Support The Troops!”—1,000 x in ________ Raymond Nat Turner, BAR Poet-in-Residence And you keep wondering how they kill your sons and daughters Daily; leaving them lying in city streets for 4 hrs ‘bleeding out?’ You keep crying the system is “broken” and I keep screaming it’s as…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Lebron James in the Eye of White Supremacy’s Storm
06 May 2021
No one, not even Lebron James, is immune to the disciplinary process meted out by the ruling class to maintain the lie of American exceptionalism on a mass scale, “Black Americans are confronted with the irreconcilable contradiction of opposing a violent, racist, and exploitative system while being…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Progressives Capitulate to Biden
06 May 2021
There can be no more excuses made for Democratic “progressives,” who steadfastly refuse to fight for what they know to be right. “There is no lesser evil, no one who will save us.”
Riva Enteen
Biden is Full of Crap on Helping Working People
12 May 2021
If Biden wants to help workers, he can fully implement the National Labor Relations Act, which hasn’t been enforced in 86 years. “Workers need guaranteed affordable childcare, and by now $15 an hour doesn’t even cut it.”
Dr. Kweli Nzito
A Curious Tale of an Iceberg with a Hacked Tip
12 May 2021
Practitioners of the dark art of bigotry find a perfect camouflage behind impenetrable walls of denial to mask their wicked ways. “The likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have been observing a deafening silence on the victims of oppression.”
Joshua Moufawad-Paul
Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror 1817-2020
12 May 2021
“Disease poetics” has been part of global capitalism since its emergence. “Medical science as an institution, regardless of the fact that it generates truth procedures and empirically verifiable technologies, is definitely affected by the social relations within which it is embedded.” Epidemic…