| Black Agenda Report

Anthony Monteiro
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Radicalization of 21st Century Black Studies
04 Mar 2015
by Dr. Anthony Monteiro Last month marked the 147th birthday of W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the towering intellects of the 20th century and the founder of Black Studies as an “emancipatory” discipline. But today, Black scholars have largely “become disengaged, self-centered and in many instances a…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Interview with Manolo De Los Santos, Part 2, and Black Code Alerts
04 Mar 2015
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The author, a noted whistleblower and activist, recently returned from a trip to Cuba, where she engaged in an intensive dialogue with Manolo De Los Santos, a Dominican American studying in Cuba. De Los Santos said Cuba has made great progress…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Final Insult to Trayvon Martin
04 Mar 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Eric Holder and Barack Obama have shown themselves incapable of delivering elementary justice to Black people. Instead of indicting Trayvon Martin’s killer, the president invited the teenager’s parents to the White House for Black History Month…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama’s Dead End Criminal Justice “Reforms”
05 Mar 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Obama administration shot double-barreled blanks in its response to the Black Lives Matter movement, “Both the Justice Department’s action in Ferguson and the Task Force report are indicative of the ineffectuality of what passes for criminal justice “reform” in…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Memory of Malcolm and the End of Neo-liberal Imperialism
04 Mar 2015
by Danny Haiphong If Malcolm X had survived to the present day, the U.S. secret police would have to assassinate him, again. “Malcolm would have condemned imperialism's endless wars in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and continued to build alliances with the victims of…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Obama's Ferguson Commission a Joke: Why Liberal Proposals and "Solutions" Don't Cut It
05 Mar 2015
The Interim Report of the Task Force for 21st Century Policing is the crunchy, fluffy wish list of big city cops and consultants who helped bring us the current police and prison state, assembled by the corporate-funded nonprofit sector which launched President Obama's career. With only 600 -odd…
Byran K. Bullock
Reviving the Fight Against Environmental Racism
11 Mar 2015
by Bryan K. Bullock The movement against environmental racism lost its way when it was subsumed into environmental “justice.” Racism remains paramount. “African descendant people are burdened by environmental issues unequally compared to their white counterparts.” The struggle demands a human…
Mr. Davey D
From Selma To Ferguson, the Continuity of Police Terror
11 Mar 2015
By Mr. Davey D The giddy, patriotic TV commentators and talking heads who brought the celebrations around the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday to us don't say much about the uniformed terrorists on the public payroll who beat down and killed nonviolent protestors 50 years ago, just as they have…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Socialism is Still the Way Forward: Combating Neo-Liberal Imperialist Lies
11 Mar 2015
by Danny Haiphong Socialism was knocked down, but not out, when the Soviet Union collapsed. That did not, however, change the fact that capitalism is in its late stages. “The choice for any movement that arises in this period is to chart a revolutionary path or be consumed into the reactionary…
Anthony Monteiro
Why James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) Still Matters
11 Mar 2015
by Anthony Monteiro As an essayist, James Baldwin had no peer. He was a revolutionary of the highest order, refusing “to think from within the language of the positionality or intellectual geography of the oppressor.” Baldwin warned that “whiteness, while emerging within the specific time/space…