| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Silence on Cynthia McKinney
08 Jul 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The shallowness of what passes for Black leadership reveals itself most dramatically at times of outrage and death. “While Cynthia McKinney languished in an Israeli jail, black leaders mobilized to say and do absolutely nothing,” preferring to…
Dr. Boyce Watkins
Is Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett the One Who Keeps Barack from Dealing with Black Issues?
19 Sep 2012
by Dr. Boyce Watkins “We can no longer live in a world where anyone who asks President Obama to do something is defined to be an enemy of the administration.” Yet, it appears the president’s top advisor, Valerie Jarrett, believes her job is to silence Black critics. “It’s as if we’re…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Shameless Vacuity of Susan Rice's Black Boosters
06 Dec 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Africa doesn’t matter, U.S. wars don’t matter, nothing matters to the Black Misleadership Class except the sickly prestige of basking in the (distant) glow of power. Susan Rice’s “Black boosters embrace an abettor of genocide and endless military interventions as…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Treasonous 32: Four-Fifths of Black Caucus Help Cops Murder Their Constituents
10 Sep 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Fully 80 percent of the 40 voting members of the Congressional Black Caucus refused to defund the Pentagon’s militarization of local police departments. That means, 32 Black lawmakers are “conscious collaborators with the Mass Black Incarceration State that…
Theogene Rudasingwa
Paul Kagame’s Rwanda Murder Inc.
17 Jun 2014
by Theogene Rudasingwa Washington’s go-to warlord in Africa, Rwandan President Paul Kagame, has turned his country’s embassies into nests of assassins, targeting dissidents around the globe. His foreign and domestic policies are “founded on the premise that opponents, whether heads of state or…
Theogene Rudasingwa
The Paul Kagame Doctrine After 20 Years
02 Apr 2014
by Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa The author, Paul Kagame’s former chief of staff, says the minority Tutsi regime has since 1994 “fought or made enemies with the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Angola, South Africa, Uganda and now, sadly but predictably, Tanzania.” Meanwhile, six…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Madame President? No, Madame Prisoner: Rwanda’s Victoire Ingabire
08 Jan 2014
by Ann Garrison The Obama administration and its European allies lavish praise, weapons and money on Paul Kagame’s military and ethnic dictatorship in Rwanda. Meanwhile, Victoire Ingabire, a woman of peace, languishes in Kagame’s prisons. If she were president, “there would be a major change in how…
Alemayehu G Mariam
Susan Rice and Africa’s Unholy Trinity
19 Dec 2012
by Alemayehu G Mariam Susan Rice’s career has been a love affair with military strongmen and dictators – three in particular: Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and the late Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia. “She has shielded the ‘Fearsome, Threesome’ from legal and political…
Bill Quigley
Rwanda, the RPF and the Myth of Non-Intervention
02 Dec 2009
The Rwandan genocide was very real. But the myths woven around it, namely that its origins are strictly inscrutable African ethnic conflicts and that the West, especially the U.S. “allowed” it to occur because they refused to intervene are just that --- myths. We are happy to present here a…
Christian Davenport and Allan C. Stam
What Really Happened In Rwanda
23 Mar 2010
by Christian Davenport and Allan C. Stam Does the simple story of Hutu on Tutsi genocide popularized by the movie Hotel Rwanda really tell us all we need to know about the Rwandan genocide? The cautionary tale of the Rwandan genocide is trotted out regularly to justify the militarization of US…