| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
American Sniper: Dirty Harry Goes Hunting
04 Feb 2015
by Dr. T. P. Wilkinson The director who made a mint from glorifying killer cops, two generations ago, cashes in once again on American racism and imperial pathology. “Is it accidental that a film about a white assassin hits the box offices on the weekend of Martin Luther King Day?”
Mark P. Fancher
Arrogant Western Military Coordination and the New/Old Threat to Africa
04 Feb 2015
by Mark P. Fancher Euro-American imperialism is now prepared to use raw military force to once again dominate the African continent – with Washington and Paris taking the lead. “In recent years, threats to western economic hegemony in Africa by China, new African self-determination initiatives,…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
What does Saudi King Abdullah have to do with Boston's Local Mayor?
04 Feb 2015
by Danny Haiphong No matter how many heads the Saudi Arabian regime cuts off, its place in the U.S. imperial alliance remains secure. And, no matter how much Boston’s Mayor Marty Walsh “gentrifies the city, militarizes the police, and impoverishes working class people, American exceptionalism gives…
Chris Hedges
Malcolm X Was Right About America
04 Feb 2015
by Chris Hedges Malcolm X, who was assassinated on February 21, 1965, recognized a half century ago that capitalism is a dying social system. “As the nations of the world free themselves, then capitalism has less victims, less to suck, and it becomes weaker and weaker,” said Malcolm. “It’s only a…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Repression and a Green Light for Murder: The Government “Shout Out to the Africans Out There”!
04 Feb 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The gears of racial repression are turning – loudly! New York City is creating a huge, machine-gun toting special police unit for dual use against “terrorists” and Black Lives Matter demonstrators, while the U.S. Justice Department will soon formally…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: ISIS – A US-Saudi Chicken Come Home to Roost
04 Feb 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley President Obama brought along his highest profile minions to honor the dead King of Saudi Arabia, America’s partner in creating the international jihadist network. U.S. corporate media enthusiastically joined in singing the praises of absolute…
Thandisizwe Chimurenga
Trial of LAPD Officer for the Death of Alesia Thomas Set To Begin This Month
04 Feb 2015
Thandisizwe Chimurenga It's a fact that #BlackWomenAreMurderedByPoliceToo. This month in Los Angeles will be one of the rare instances a police officer comes before a judge for such a killing back in 2012. The victim was one Alesia Thomas, a mother of two who had earlier left her children at a…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Super Bowl (Business, not personal…)
04 Feb 2015
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Then comes this "Beast Mode,” this Marshawn Lynch cat, unpredictable Like Jazz, SILENCE, dead air stare, “I’m here so I won’t get fined,” 29 Times, like a Coltrane lick, looped… “Shout out to all my real Africans Out there,”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Oprah and Sharpton Attack Black Lives Matter Movement
05 Feb 2015
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Why I Don't Do Kwaanza
18 Dec 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Ron Karenga, the man who invented Kwaanza, headed the US organization, which was responsible for the murder of 4 Black Panthers in Southern California as a tool of COINTELPRO, and the torture of two of its own female members. Kwaanza may now be bigger than its…