| Black Agenda Report

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.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Obama Militarily Occupied Africa
26 Nov 2018
“In the 8 years that Barack Obama was president, “AFRICOM went from 3 military bases to 84 bases” on the continent, said Paul Pumphrey, co-founder of Friends of Congo, speaking at
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.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
New Yorkers Can’t Trust Amazon
19 Nov 2018
Amazon, the world’s biggest company, “is not a trustworthy corporation,” said Maritza Silvs-Farrell, of Align, an alliance of labor and community groups that opposes awarding Amazo
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.