| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Don’t You Dare Conflate MLK and Obama
17 Jan 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford If Dr. King were alive today, there might be a Black president, but he or she would certainly not get MLK’s support if he behaved like Barack Obama. Dr. King would oppose Obama’s wars, “make Wall Street scream, and attempt to render the nation ungovernable…
Mark P. Fancher
Freedom Fighters or Criminals? AFRICOM Doesn’t Care.
13 May 2009
by Mark P. Fancher AFRICOM extends its tentacles on the east and west coasts and deep into the interior of the continent. Its mission: “to keep Africa safe for western corporations that need access to the continent’s oil and mineral resources.” All indigenous opposition to imperial policies and…
Mark P. Fancher
AFRICOM AIN’T THE PEACE CORPS
09 Dec 2009
by Mark P. Fancher The U.S. military’s AFRICOM forces pretend their mission on the continent is humanitarian. In reality, AFRICOM is the sharp edge of U.S. imperialism, a killing force eager to impose American dominance. The military command “locks Africa into a state of dependency and maintains…
Mark P. Fancher
The African Liberation Struggle is a Grassroots Thing
19 May 2010
by Mark P. Fancher African decolonization began with dreams of prosperity through unity, best articulated by Ghana’s President Kwame Nkrumah. But Nkrumah was toppled by forces backed by the U.S., and the vision of a United States of Africa faded. “Nevertheless, the demand for African unity by…
Solomon Comissiong
Mascots, Murder and Massacre: Using Imagery to Accept Genocide
10 Jul 2013
by Solomon Comissiong Despite Native American protests, the owner of the Washington “Redskins” refuses to jettison the football team’s racist moniker. Even some Black fans cling to the shameful imaginary, notwithstanding the fact that “most African-Americans would be extremely offended if someone…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: If George Zimmerman Goes Free
10 Jul 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley “As a group, how will we react to the denial of justice for Trayvon Martin and the hundreds of others whose names we don’t even know” that have been murdered by police and freelance racists? The last thing we need will be “mealy mouthed…
Mikhail Lyubansky
The Health Outcomes of a Racist Society
10 Jul 2013
by Mikhail Lyubansky It is well known that Blacks die at earlier ages than whites in the U.S. But, more is at work than poverty and diet. Racism kills, debilitating the body like a poison. “Being poor and uneducated (the two are highly correlated) is bad for your health, but not as bad as being…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Help, Help, Mama Harriet, Help!
10 Jul 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner “US like bloodhounds, strip-searching our souls, stealing star-studded Smiles from our children’s eyes, chaining them to hitching posts like Horses or mules.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
From Egypt to Syria: Is The Gulf Cooperation Council the Tail That Wags the U.S. Dog?
10 Jul 2013
by Ajamu Baraka It is possible that the coup in Egypt was not a U.S.-initiated affair but, rather, a sign of declining U.S. influence in the region. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, who hated deposed Egyptian President Morsi, may have promised Egypt’s generals they would replace U.S.…
Bill Quigley
Yasiin Bey, aka Mos Def Undergoes Brutal Guantanamo Style Force Feeding
10 Jul 2013
Actor, rapper & human rights activist Yasiin Bey, aka Mos Def graphically demonstrates a little of what Uncle Sam's untried, un-accused, unsentenced but permanently incarcerated prisoners at Guantanamo Bay & elsewhere undergo every day... not for the faint of heart. From the Guardian,…