| Black Agenda Report

by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Light Up In Harlem
29 Oct 2013
by BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner Commemorating Beyond Vietnam, Celebrating Grassroots pregnant with Struggle
Bill Bigelow
Grenada: Remembering ‘A Lovely Little War’
29 Oct 2013
by Bill Bigelow If journalism is the first draft of history, then U.S. student’s history books have been horribly polluted by corporate journalism. The 1983 U.S. invasion of the island nation of Grenada is a case in point. “In their obsequious approach to the invasion of Grenada, the corporate…
Edward S. Herman
R2P As An Instrument of Aggression
29 Oct 2013
by Edward S. Herman “Responsibility to Protect” is a bogus doctrine designed to undermine the very foundations of international law. It is law rewritten for the powerful “The structures and laws that underlie the application of R2P exempt the Great Power enforcers from the laws and rules that…
Seth Sandronsky
Basketball Mayor Hypes School Privatization, Shoots An Air Ball
29 Oct 2013
by Seth Sandronsky Charter school operators and their political servants make bogus claims of educational gains – claims that are often passed along as fact by supposedly reputable media. Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson is a propagandist for privatization, and an ally of corporations that have…
Jon Jeter
Worse Than Apartheid: Black in Obama’s America
30 Oct 2013
by Jon Jeter The U.S. Black-white wealth gap is larger than in South Africa at the height of apartheid. The statistic is all the more remarkable when considering that South Africa virtually mandated gross inequality by law, while in the U.S. the great chasm exists “within a political economy that…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
What’s a Little Surveillance Among Friends?
30 Oct 2013
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Thanks to Edward Snowden, the world is learning that the United States spies on…everyone. Friends, foes, allies, adversaries, it doesn’t matter – the National Security Agency has your number and isn’t shy about dialing it. Republicans are Obama…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Black Faces for White People
30 Oct 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Halloween brings out the worst, in the worst white folks. “What was an enjoyable time to dress up in costume has become the white racist moment to act out sick fantasy.” The bigots would like their version of Halloween to last all year. “A…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Detroit Will be Democracy's Decisive Battle
30 Oct 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Detroit is the battleground chosen by Wall Street to crush the last vestiges of American democracy by creating “the template for direct corporate rule.” Finance capital recognizes that it can no longer coexist with democratic institutions, which are most easily…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Lament for the Late, Great African-American People…
05 Nov 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner Stop our brothers from Talking superfluous Shit, gratuitous Violence, fratricide… Like Monsanto madmen, Killing and polluting Everything they touch…
Sarah Lazare
When Prisons Retaliate: California Inmates Still Paying Price for Demanding Rights
05 Nov 2013
by Sarah Lazare California prison inmates have held three hunger strikes and mass work stoppages in the last two years, protesting appalling conditions and the torture of solitary confinement. The state is striking back. "We've received letters around individual guards or groups of guards…