| Black Agenda Report

Nora Barrows-Friedman
US and Israel Turn “Aid” Centers Into Slaughter Zones
11 Jun 2025
Nowhere is safe in Gaza. US-backed Israeli forces are turning aid centers into slaughter zones, targeting starving civilians as they desperately search for food and medicine.
Mnar Adley
“So They’ll Never Have Children”: American Nurse Says Israeli Soldiers Deliberately Shot Boys in the Penis
11 Jun 2025
Gaza’s hospitals have become killing fields, and medical workers witness Israeli forces executing unarmed civilians, including children.
Struggle La Lucha
ICE Raids Escalate in LA As Community Fights Back
11 Jun 2025
While ICE and law enforcement unleash raids across LA, protesters stand firm, exposing the brutal machinery of deportation and the state’s violent response to dissent and resistance.
Jonathan Forney
7 Supreme Court Cases That Black Americans Should Track This Summer
11 Jun 2025
Issues before the high court range from health care access and citizenship to workplace discrimination and redistricting.
Aiyana Porter-Cash
False Promises of Protection Embedded in U.S. Militarism and Carcerality
11 Jun 2025
"Protection" is a lie—a pretext for state violence, militarism, and control, targeting the marginalized while masking harm as care. True safety comes not from oppressive systems, but from resistance and collective liberation.
Jill Clark-Gollub
Daniel Ortega is No Bukele
11 Jun 2025
Ortega and Bukele are polar opposites: one invests in dignity and democracy, the other in mass incarceration and imperial alliances.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Edna Bonhomme’s Book, “A History of the World in Six Plagues”
11 Jun 2025
This week’s featured author is Edna Bonhomme. Bonhomme is a historian of science, culture writer, and journalist based in Berlin, Germany. Her book is A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19.
Jon Jeter
Making a Mountain out of a Mole Hill, Trump Sends Troops to Los Angeles, Hoping to Energize His MAGA Base
11 Jun 2025
Trump deploys Marines against LA protesters, echoing Nixon’s Kent State crackdown. But this time, he faces a broader, greatly disaffected opposition ready to fight back.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
POEM: Poem for Walter Rodney, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, 1981
11 Jun 2025
“any where or world where there is love there is the sky and its blue free where past means present struggle”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Christopher Black: Balancing the Unbalanced Scales of International Criminal Justice
11 Jun 2025
Christopher C. Black fought for justice in politically agendized international courts.