| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama’s War Against Civilization
27 Feb 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The U.S. is in a frenzy of regime-changing aggression, aimed at destabilizing or destroying sovereign states. Obama’s signature is written in blood around the world, as he pursues “full spectrum, no-holds-barred, war-without-boundaries against all potential…
Tyrone R. Simpson II
How Barack Obama Killed Trayvon Martin
05 Mar 2014
Tyrone R. Simpson II By bowing to police power, President Obama guaranteed that official carnage against Black people would continue. If he had “commented on any of the unjust ritualized murders that took the lives of Sean Bell (New York), Oscar Grant (Oakland), Kenneth Chamberlain (New York) or…
Joan P. Gibbs
In Solidarity? An Open Letter to Pan-African Activists, the Black Left and Human Rights Activists in the U.S.
05 Mar 2014
by Joan P. Gibbs Homophobia is on the rise in Africa, in significant part due to donations provided by US-based conservative evangelical organizations. US organizations intending to support the LGBT rights struggle in Africa need to reflect carefully on a number of important factors.
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: “Journalists” Follow Obama on Ukraine
05 Mar 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The corporate media are a key component of the U.S. imperial machine. Although styling themselves as watchdogs, they are in fact the dogs of war, whose mission is to hide Washington’s aggressions behind a fog of lies. War “crimes are committed…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Quit haunting me, Amiriman
04 Mar 2014
by BAR poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner Put an APB out, forthwith, posthaste on Dem Nuremberg Negroz, assets in alligator combat boots, Armani flak jackets, suede suicide vests and Louis Vuitton Saddlebags packed with C-4, impostors posing as peoples’ servants,
Ezili Danto
Tourism is Not Development: Haiti, Liberate Yourself!
04 Mar 2014
by Ezili Dantò As part of the rationale for stealing Haiti’s sovereignty, the U.S., Canada and France point to Jamaica and the neighboring Dominican Republic as countries that have benefited from the tourist trade. “But there's more violence and crime in these countries than in Haiti. Their people…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Hillary and Other Assorted Barbarians at Russia’s Gate
06 Mar 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The United States is more than just an ally to fascists in Ukraine and everywhere else; the American South provided an historical model for fascism. “The fascist order of the pre-Sixties Solid South was simply a domestic expression of U.S. Manifest Destiny – the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Propaganda
12 Mar 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley One of the reasons the U.S. government is such a danger to world peace, is U.S. “public acceptance and approval of nearly every crime committed by our government.” Americans pretend to believe in due process of law, but are quick to condemn to…
Eric Draitser
Dr. Anthony Monteiro and the Assault on the Black Radical Tradition
11 Mar 2014
by Eric Draitser Dr. Anthony Monteiro was targeted for termination by the rightward politics of corporate higher education, with the help of an opportunistic fellow Black academic, Dr. Molefi Asante. “At best, Asante shows a complete disregard and utter betrayal of a colleague who, just a year…
Ezili Danto
Obama sides with the UN against Haiti in the cholera case
11 Mar 2014
Èzili Dantò The United States, which overthrew Haiti’s democracy ten years ago and then engineered the United Nations occupation of the country, now argues in court that the UN should enjoy impunity for inflicting Haiti with cholera.” The move was totally predictable. “It’s naive and silly to think…