| Black Agenda Report

by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Bloody hands of state
25 Dec 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Young and strong, marching All night long on search and Destroy missions, uprooting, Overturning, anything decayed
Johanna Fernández
Despite Deaths of Two Officers, Movement Against Police Brutality is Just
25 Dec 2014
by Johanna Fernández “The police are already using the killings of these cops as an opportunity to declare war against the black community and to criminalize the growing movement against police violence.” In real-world America, cops are rarely killed, yet their institutional behavior is central to…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
LET US SPEAK! LET US SPEAK! LET US SPEAK! Voices from Ferguson to Sharpton
17 Dec 2014
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist and Kevin Berends The spirit of the people in motion will often overcome the pretentions of their so-called leaders. Thus it was inevitable that young activists denied any part in Sharpton's stage-managed DC spectacle save that of crowd extras…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Eric Garner, American Occupation, and the Decline of Empire
17 Dec 2014
by Danny Haiphong Like whole flocks of chickens coming home to roost, the deep contradictions that beset the U.S. empire have become acute, at home and abroad. “The militarized police state that is attempting to stifle the energy of the current movement has its roots in the Pentagon's…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
December Surprise (Class struggle trumps Trail of Tricks)
17 Dec 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner With young, Black America’s sound New meaning to ‘boots on the ground!’ Like a ‘surge,’ chum-rushing the stage Declaring: The Ferguson Age!
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Accomplices to War Crimes
04 Sep 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Inside the U.S. information bubble, the conspiracy of lies about Syria is nearly seamless. “Obama has no reason to fear that his tall tales will be presented as anything other than fact” because corporate media and the two corporate parties…
Thomas C. Mountain
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch Plotted to Destabilize Eritrea
14 Jan 2015
by Thomas C. Mountain It appears that the corporate guardians of international “human rights” have acted as paid operatives of the U.S. effort to destabilize the fiercely independent east African nation of Eritrea. The scandal is reminiscent of operations against Cuban during the same period.
Bill Quigley
Social Justice Quiz 2015: How Much Do You Know About Inequality?
14 Jan 2015
by Bill Quigley The United States behaves as if it is an arbiter of “social justice” in the world. But, in reality, the U.S. is among the earth’s most unequal societies. How widespread is social injustice in America? Take the test.
Jesse Hagopian
Black Haitian Lives Matter: Haiti on the Fifth Anniversary of the Earthquake
14 Jan 2015
by Jesse Hagopian The author was a witness to the disaster that took hundreds of thousands of Haitian lives in 2010 – a catastrophe used by the U.S. as a pretext for massive military invasion. “I saw a virtual cornucopia of water and supplies piled up on the tarmac, none of it being transported to…
Sam Mitrani
Stop Kidding Yourself: The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People
14 Jan 2015
by Sam Mitrani The cops have always worked for the rich and powerful. In the South, policing began with slave patrols. In Chicago, “businessmen donated money to buy the police rifles, artillery, Gatling guns, buildings, and money to establish a police pension out of their own pockets.”