| Black Agenda Report

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Twerkers of the World you might…(Or when they go low we get high?)
01 Jul 2021
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” —Karl Marx Bleach barker, low-Barr, last days of Pompeo—of Decaying empire; of paper towel-tossing, pussy- grabbing presidents… An a couple of big black booties—a couple of pumping rumps are atop an Ambulance as it attempts to…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DOCUMENT: Internal Security Act of 1950
01 Jul 2021
The terms of the McCarran Act strategy offer a wide catchment that has the potential to ensnare any progressive or radical movement. “All those who have even mild criticisms of the US government can— and will—be caught up within the anti-terrorist dragnet.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Message to the Peace Movement: A Summary of the New Cold War on China
01 Jul 2021
The New Cold War is a tech war, a propaganda war, an economic war, and a war to maintain US political and economic supremacy. “Racism is an essential in component of the New Cold War on China.” The following is a revised transcript of a monologue by the author published on The Left Lens …
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Terrible Origins of July 4th
01 Jul 2021
The British crown and the colonists were both determined to seize lands from native peoples and to continue enslavement.” “White settlers were in a constant state of fear of slave revolts.” “He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our…
Nodrada
Decolonization and Communism
08 Jul 2021
Under settler colonialism, the colonizers seek primarily to eliminate the indigenous population rather than exploit them. The continuity of belonging to a certain ‘mode of life’ and community is key to indigeneity.” “We have to give life to Indo-American socialism with our own reality, in our…
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Venezuela Immunizes Its Population Against COVID-19 with Cuban Vaccine
08 Jul 2021
Venezuela signed an agreement with Cuba for the purchase of 12 million doses of Abdal after the country announced and celebrated the success of its locally developed anti-COVID-19 vaccine. “Both Cuba and Venezuela have announced to vaccinate their entire population of over 11 million and 28…
Aaron Kamugisha
The Responsibilities of Caribbean Intellectuals
08 Jul 2021
Caribbean thought gives us more conscious control over ideas in the pursuit of human freedom. “The unity of Caribbean people does not require the tomes of the economist or the technocracy of the public official -- it is the lived reality.” The tradition of Caribbean intelligentsia insists on a…
Riva Enteen
The US “Left” Has Repositioned Itself on the “Right” – Aligned with Capital, War and Repression
08 Jul 2021
The most dangerous component of ‘MSM’ fake news is arguably propaganda by omission. “The public cannot make informed decisions, and take appropriate action, when the crimes of ruling elites are kept hidden by a complicit media.” "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little…
Karen Cook Bell
Escape as Resistance for Enslaved Women During the American Revolution
08 Jul 2021
Motherhood often served as a catalyst for attempted escape during the American Revolution. “Enslaved women had as much incentive to run away as did men, and perhaps even more since they were abused physically, sexually, and psychologically.”
Peter Kelley
Historian Michael Honey Recalls Martin Luther King’s Message of Economic Justice In New Book, “To The Promised Land”
08 Jul 2021
King said the best anti-poverty program is a union, where you can fight for your own agenda — somebody doesn’t have to hand it to you. “King was talking about it being 100 years since emancipation in 1963, yet millions of African Americans still lived on a lonely island of poverty in the sea of an…