| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Political Prisoners Seek Justice at UN Committee on Torture
20 Nov 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Supporters of U.S. political prisoners, most of them former Black Panthers and all of them senior citizens, faced off against the assembled bureaucracy of the United States, at a meeting of the UN Committee Against Torture, in Geneva, Switzerland, last week. The U.…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Fo’ an ignut-ass Facebook ‘friend’
20 Nov 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner The Drone Ranger, Deporter-in- Chief is a vocalist—ventriloquists Hands up his ass, making his Mouth move, a mechanical man Sitting on knees war profiteers Lap-dancing Lockheed-Martin
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Reasserting Our Humanity in a State of Pre-Liberation
20 Nov 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Kevin Berends What’s different about Ferguson? The people of that small city “reject Al Sharpton's, and Jesse Jackson's, and Eric Holder's entreaties to work within the system,” because they know the system is rigged. Hopefully, it is a…
George Mwai
Africa’s Dilemma: Transitioning From Where to Where?
26 Nov 2014
by George Mwai Transitional Justice seeks to enable societies to come to terms with legacies of large-scale past abuse, in order to secure accountability, serve justice and achieve reconciliation towards a future that is democratic and free from violence, but its groundings and mechanisms are…
Ajamu Nangwaya
Police Violence in Black Toronto: Cops Act Like “Military Police in Occupied Territories”
26 Nov 2014
by Ajamu Nangwaya The Jane and Finch community is the epicenter of Black Toronto and, not coincidentally, the most intensive arena of police abuse. In Canada, “carding” is the equivalent of U.S. stop-and-frisk. “If the people are able to win victory on the issue of carding, it might build their…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Boston’s War of Gentrification and Homelessness is an Extension of War on the World
26 Nov 2014
by Danny Haiphong Boston, like most U.S. cities, is attempting to banish its homeless population. “Working class and poor people, especially Boston's Black residents, are being forced outside” the city. Dedicated activists have mobilized to “address the criminalizatiorica:n of the nation's…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
When the “verdict” drops
26 Nov 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Media white-out— …Wilson’s shots loudest heard?
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
End Police Terror: Sustained Protests Begin at U.S. Justice Department December 1
26 Nov 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo What do the protesters in Ferguson and their allies around the country want? The Hands Up Coalition has issued a comprehensive list, demanding demilitarization of police, systematic review of all police departments, targeted federal spending…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The Darren Wilson Non-indictment: Resistance to Oppression is a Human Right!
26 Nov 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The U.S. State, corporate media and slavish elements of the Black community are determined to paint the most spirited resistance to white supremacy as illegitimate. Pay them no mind. “The task of the African American resistance movement is not to worry…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Marion Barry: The Unmitigated Gall to Rise from the Ashes and Come Back to Win
27 Nov 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Washington, DC, which recently lost its Black majority, last week lost the only mayor it ever had who was committed to Black empowerment. Marion Barry “was on the front line fighting to maintain black control of Washington, D.C. from the…