| Black Agenda Report

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
The Emperor’s New Rules
26 May 2021
The US claims that it respects the international rule on law, but instead makes up the rules as it goes along, resulting in the death of millions. “The Biden administration has yet to take any decisive action to bring U.S. foreign policy into compliance with the UN Charter or international law.”
Jon Jeter
Silent for 20 Years, an Ex-NBA Player Erupts in a Cogent Critique of Anti-Black Media
26 May 2021
The corporate sports media practices a kind of settler state “Orientalism,” blaming black players for the ills of an industry owned by rich white men. “Sports media monopolizes the public discourse with its declassified dossier of black dysfunction.”
Marya Hannun
How Black Lives Matter Changed the American Conversation About Israel and Palestine
26 May 2021
The surge of attention to the Israeli occupation is unimaginable without last year’s “George Floyd” protests. “In many ways, the change we are witnessing now has been a long time coming.”
C. Riley Snorton
BAR Book Forum: C. Riley Snorton’s “Black on Both Sides”
26 May 2021
The inhabitation of the un-gender-specific and “fungible” also mapped the affective grounds for imagining other qualities of life and being for those marked by and for captivity. “The demarcation and annexation of territories and states evinced how slavery and settler colonialism structured…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Michael Rothberg’s “The Implicated Subject”
26 May 2021
Most people contribute to injustice not as direct perpetrators but as indirect participants who enable, perpetuate, benefit from, and inherit histories of violence and contemporary systems of exploitation. “Solidarity does not require identification or similarity, but can emerge from understanding…
Dr. Gerald Horne
Against Left-Wing White Nationalism
26 May 2021
Much of what is called the “left” still insists that the American “revolution” of 1776 is “unfinished,” when history shows that white supremacy was the intended result. “Those who consider themselves to be sophisticated refer to an ‘Incomplete Revolution,’ as if the founders had in mind ‘others’…
David Theo Goldberg
The War on Critical Race Theory
26 May 2021
The critics want to wipe clear the actual history of racial oppression that is baked into the social and economic structures of the US. “The materials echo essays sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, which calls CRT ‘the new intolerance’ and ‘the rejection of the underpinnings of Western…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Preachin’ to the Choir (for Joe, Linda, Tim…)
26 May 2021
2020’s hindsight—frost in the rearview mirror. Miles Ahead… I’m Sheltered in Solidarity with National Poetry Month and Jazz Appreciation Month— April in Boston—warm cider flows from the chat and screen… And I answer a question with a Question. How much harm is in Harmony? …
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: The Meaning of African Liberation Day: Walter Rodney, May 27, 1972
26 May 2021
At the 1972 event, Walter Rodney proclaimed that “black unity must be international because we live on every continent, through no choice of our own.” Editors, Black Agenda Review “We are saying ‘yes’ to the struggle in Africa today … And we are saying ‘yes’ to people like the Soledad Brothers…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Palestine is a Mirror into the Contemporary World Struggle Against Imperialism, and its Contradictions
27 May 2021
One cannot logically support the liberation of Palestine while simultaneously advocating regime change in Syria and Venezuela and obscene funding for the US military. “Palestinians deserve full solidarity in their ongoing struggle to liberate themselves and their land.”