| Black Agenda Report

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Reparations Means Global Social Transformation
21 Mar 2019
Reparations is not a token gesture of concern, apology or even solidarity; it seeks justice and redress of wrongs through the transformation of a people’s condition.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
How the U.S. Creates ‘Sh*thole’ Countries: A Review
20 Mar 2019
Cynthia McKinney and her co-writers have produced an important literary tool for anti-imperial agitation and education.
Ellen Brown
The Secret to Funding a Green New Deal
20 Mar 2019
Millions of jobs can be created in a national energy transformation without blowing up the deficit.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
20 Mar 2019
Double standards in the criminal justice system, the relationship between feminism and sex work as well as between reparations and immigrants were on readers’ minds this week. The top responses ca
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tamura Lomax’s “Jezebel Unhinged”
20 Mar 2019
The jezebel discourse is reproduced in and circulated between the Black Church and black popular culture, making each a site of antiblack and sexist stereotypic cultivation and pornotropic gazing.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Gary Dorrien’s“The New Abolition”
20 Mar 2019
The founder of Black social gospel fought hard for their right to combine racial justice politics and progressive theology in black church contexts.
Thurka Sangaramoorthy
The US Is Failing Black Women With HIV
20 Mar 2019
Many believe the HIV epidemic in the US is nearing an end, but Blacks represent 43 percent of all persons with newly diagnosed HIV.
J.M. Kirby
Facing Wrongful Detention and Threats, Afro-Colombian Women Call for Justice
20 Mar 2019
In Colombia, “all human rights defenders are considered criminals,” especially those who are Black or indigenous.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Imperial Racist Saga Comes Home, Where It Began
14 Mar 2019
What makes US progressives think that the Lords of Capital will be more tolerant of austerity-busting ‘socialists’ here at home than they are with Venezuela?
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Justice and Paul Manafort
13 Mar 2019
Now that Trump’s sleazy associates are facing prison, lots of Democrats that never gave a damn about mass Black incarceration are self-righteously blasting the criminal injustice system.