| Black Agenda Report

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Macarena Gómez-Barris’s “Beyond the Pink Tide“and Harsha Walia’s “Undoing Border Imperialism”
12 Dec 2018
Our authors explore “how to live decolonial thought-action” and imagine a world without borders.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: Time to De-Colonize Human Rights!
05 Dec 2018
The post-WW II promise of human rights was a compact meant for white people only, but a People-Centered Human Rights framework seeks global liberation and transformation.
Don Fitz
Cuba's First Military Doctors (Part 2)
05 Dec 2018
Cuban doctors and soldiers served secretly in revolutionary Africa in the 1960s, pursuing Che’s strategy of “Two, Three, Many Vietnams.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Keisha Lindsay’s “In a Classroom of Their Own”and Dixa Ramirez’s “Colonial Phantoms”
27 Nov 2018
Our authors address global anti-Blackness and the particular Dominican Republic variety, and examine the pros and cons of all black male schooling.
Don Fitz
Cuba's First Military Doctors (Part 1)
27 Nov 2018
Revolutionary Cuba decided in the Sixties “that the best defense for the island would be an international offense” -- in Africa.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
21 Nov 2018
BAR’s readers challenge and expand upon the positions taken by our writers on Democratic gains in the House, intersectionality and police “reform.”
Cat Brooks
This Law Helps Police Get Away With Murder. Let's End It.
20 Nov 2018
Officers, who are armed and tasked to serve and protect, should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us, not a lower one.
Thomas C. Mountain
Saying Goodbye to UN Sanctions Against Eritrea
20 Nov 2018
Like so many imperial projects, the US had to abandon its long campaign to crush socialist Eritrea through sanctions and defamation.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Ruling Class War Games at the White House
15 Nov 2018
The White House press corps, like the corporate media in general, are foot soldiers in a wider conflict between sections of the ruling oligarchy: Trump versus anti-Trump.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Et tu, RT? Amplifying Western Disinformation on Rwanda
07 Nov 2018
The Great Lie about the Rwandan bloodbath opened the door to a far larger genocide in Congo and justified US military interventions all over the planet.