| Black Agenda Report

by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Fox-box Foot Soldiers
02 Apr 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner “… firing fully automatic fat cat, fair and Balanced, blue dog, chicken-hawk opinions; long On wind, short on facts— melodramatic, Psy Op, Shock and awe actors— accessories to mass murder…”
Mike Pirsch
U.S. and Al-Qaeda: The Best of Frenemies
02 Apr 2013
by Mike Pirsch The American on-again, off-again relationship with Al-Qaeda is back in the hot-and-heavy phase, with the U.S. “leading a coalition including, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, The United Arab Emirates, Croatia, England, France, and Al-Qaeda to destroy and break up targeted countries.”…
Yvette Carnell
How Can Blacks Love Obama So Much When They're Doing So Bad?
03 Apr 2013
Is there a disconnect between the actual economic well-being of African Americans and their uncritical, unconditional love for their first black president? Your Black World's Yvette Carnell interviews Pascal Robert.
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The Assassination Of Dr. King And The Suppression Of The Anti-War And Peace Perspectives
03 Apr 2013
by Ajamu Baraka This week marks the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. In those years, a King has emerged who bears little in common with the man who lived and struggled and died in the Freedom Movement. Killing the man was the work of an instant. Suppressing and…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Hidden War Crimes in Iraq
03 Apr 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The United States leaves an indelible impression on the peoples that come in contact with it: in the case of Iraqis, a legacy of death by bombs, bullets, incineration, starvation, disease and genetic damage. The U.S. didn’t event war crimes, but…
Carl Dix
Mass Incarceration + Silence = Genocide
02 Apr 2013
by Carl Dix Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow takes us in the right direction to understanding mass incarceration – but it doesn’t go far enough. “It is essential to not fall into seeing the necessary resistance movement being a rerun of the movement that broke the back of Jim Crow.”
Jordan Flaherty
World Social Forum Highlights Both Unity and Dissent Within Global Movements
02 Apr 2013
by Jordan Flaherty The World Social Forum convened in Tunisia, North Africa, animated by the currents of the Arab Spring. Although the Occupy Wall Street Movement is no longer in the headlines in the U.S., “when Occupy was mentioned in the opening ceremony” in Tunis, “it brought one of the largest…
Sese
DJ Sese - Liberating Dr. King Mixtape
31 Mar 2013
There was and still is a Martin Luther King who is lionized, memorialized, and fossilized. And there was and still is a Dr. King who was something else again. DJ Sese's mixtape liberates Martin Luther King by restoring him to his context in the truly revolutionary environment of the…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin On: How Negroz See Quest Stray Shun…
09 Apr 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner The Country Cousin is wise to our folks’ ways.
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Fear of a Dead Planet
10 Apr 2013
By Margaret Kimberley Fracking is a corporate oil extraction technology. It uses vast quantities of water and irretrievably poisons water tables for entire regions before it brings up an ounce of oil or gas. Refining fracked oil & gas takes several times the energy and is vastly more polluting…