| Black Agenda Report

Ximena Bustillo
“Rampant Issues”: Black Farmers are Still Left Out at USDA
15 Jul 2021
Farmers of color received less than one percent of the payments even though they are five percent of all U.S. farmers. “The average farm for a Black farmer is 132 acres, according to the 2017 Agricultural Census, the lowest of any socially disadvantaged group.”
All Africa
Swaziland Army in “Full Charge” After Protests, Many Killed by King’s Troops
15 Jul 2021
The Swazi military has reportedly warned the population to “obey instructions” or “face full wraith of troops.” “The army is now fully in charge for real .. not even the police knows what the army is doing now.” The Army in Swaziland (eSwatini) has taken full charge after mass prodemocracy protests…
Sarah Leonard
How Amazon Exploited a Weakened America
15 Jul 2021
Amazon will not stop squeezing every drop from workers until those workers have more power. “The book is less an examination of the company than an examination of America through its lens.” Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America Alec MacGillis Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN:…
Cynthia Greenlee
How History Textbooks Reflect America’s Refusal to Reckon with Slavery
15 Jul 2021
Textbooks are a battleground in which the humanity and status of black Americans are contested “Textbooks shaped how generations of white Americans thought about their black compatriots and how black Americans who read such textbooks thought about themselves.”
Erica X Eisen
Blackness and the Bomb
15 Jul 2021
Seventy years after the civil preparedness film Duck and Cover, it is long past time to reckon with the way white supremacy shaped U.S. nuclear defense efforts during the Cold War. “The terror surrounding nuclear weapons seemed to be rooted very specifically in a fear that the target would be…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kyla Schuller’s Book, “The Biopolitics of Feeling”
15 Jul 2021
The very physical category of femaleness was articulated by feminists and non-feminists alike as the sole property of whiteness in the 19th century, “Children are the front lines of state racism.”
André Brock Jr.
BAR Book Forum: André Brock Jr.’s “Distributed Blackness”
15 Jul 2021
The online aggregation and coherence of Blackness online, absent Black bodies, is what inspired the author’s book. “Black folk have a natural affinity for the internet and digital media.”
Branko Marcetic
The Julian Assange Media Blackout Must End
15 Jul 2021
Embarrassed by revelations, the Biden administration has now offered several “assurances” they would allow Assange to apply for transfer to a prison in his home country of Australia to serve out his time. “The establishment press has decided to simply ignore the story.” A couple weeks back, the US…
Seth Donnelly
The Assassination of Jovenel Moise: What Next for Haiti?
15 Jul 2021
Expect the Biden Administration to provide ongoing funding for Haiti’s brutal security forces. “Since Moise took power, the Haitian people have taken to the streets by the hundreds of thousands.”
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Defend the Cuba Revolution and Struggle for More Socialism, Not Less!
15 Jul 2021
Millions have turned away from the illusions and corruption of capitalism toward the possibility of organizing a society informed by the values of cooperation, equality, community, peace, and life. “Capitalism transforms water into a commodity, food into a luxury, education into an impossibility…