| Black Agenda Report

Noura Erakat
Marc Lamont Hill and the Legacy of Punishing Black Internationalists
07 Dec 2018
Hill’s bold statement to the UN is part of the internationalist Black radical tradition, exemplified by Paul Robeson, the Black Panther Party, and today’s Black Lives Matter movement.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
All US Presidents, Living and Dead, are War Criminals
06 Dec 2018
Especially at state funerals, media and politicians pretend that US presidents are honorable men, instead of the mass murderers that all of them become in office.
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.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Pierre Omidyar: A Dangerous Billionaire-Backer of the “Resistance”
05 Dec 2018
The eBay billionaire’s project is to stabilize an imperial system in crisis by luring “progressives” into corporate dominated “Big Tent” against Trump.
Glenn Greenwald
CNN Fires Marc Lamont Hill, Submits to Right-Wing Mob
05 Dec 2018
Our discourse is now drowning under demands that speech be banned if powerful constituencies think it “hurtful” -- especially the Israel lobby.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
05 Dec 2018
Readers engaged and challenged ideas about Nancy Pelosi and Bernie Sanders this week. In particular the question of Bernie Sanders’ impact on the two party system provoked a lot of thought.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jason Borge’s “Tropical Riffs“ and John Gennari’s “Flavor and Soul”
05 Dec 2018
Our authors explore how jazz once proved the “border-hopping mobility” of African American culture, and arenas of conflict and collaboration between Blacks and Italian-Americans.
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.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
NATO’s Largesse: “Nuclear Sharing”
28 Nov 2018
The new Cold War is escalating, fueled by Washington’s bid to isolate or strangle Russia.
Robert Fantina
How the US Creates ‘Sh*thole’ Countries
27 Nov 2018
A new collection of essays, edited by former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, clearly shows that it is the U.S. that is largely responsible for the poverty and suffering in these very nations.