| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
No Justice, No Peace, Without Black Community Control of Police
19 Mar 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Police, prosecutors, politicians and corporate propagandists seized on the shooting of two cops in Ferguson, to claim that the Black Lives Matter movement had suffered a “setback” – as if they have the moral authority to judge. But the movement is not about keeping…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Netanyahu’s Victory is a Victory for Palestinian Solidarity Movement
25 Mar 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Netanyahu’s racism was never a secret to Israelis, but his election outbursts may have put the final kibosh on the “two-state” diversion, and given new life to the demand for “one, democratic, secular state for all of the people who live in the territory.”…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Philadelphia’s Killer Cops Prove the Necessity of Black Community Control of Police
26 Mar 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford In response to the Black Lives Matter movement, the U.S. Justice Department has attempted to position itself on the side of “reform.” Its new report on the Philadelphia police is one example. However, their version of reform is designed to perfect the system of…
Thomas C. Mountain
Surviving Climate Disaster in Africa's Sahel
01 Apr 2015
by Thomas C. Mountain The small, fiercely independent nation of Eritrea has mobilized its entire population to combat the effects of climate change. “When the rains failed in 2013, we had enough to eat while in much of the rest of the Sahel hundreds of thousands starved to death.” Reforestation and…
Benjamin Woods
The Pan-African Cultural Revolution
01 Apr 2015
by Benjamin Woods “Our common oppression is not what makes us African, it is our movement for freedom that give us consciousness of our identity.” Black people’s political and cultural revolutions go hand in hand. It’s cultural component “is a class struggle in the realm of ideas and culture…
Linn Washington
Feds Rediscover Police Brutality In City of Brotherly Love…er…Beat City
01 Apr 2015
by Linn Washington, Jr. The U.S. Justice Department’s latest report on police brutality in Philadelphia reveals much the same pattern of excessive use of lethal force as charged in a 1979 lawsuit and confirmed by a Human Rights Watch study in 1998. The city registered “an average of one citizen…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Common's Song for Black America: Extend a Hand of Love to White Supremacy
01 Apr 2015
by Danny Haiphong The rapper/actor Common’s “plea to Black America to get past white supremacy is actually a request for support for his endeavors from the Empire's Black corporate club.” Race and class betrayal is a highly profitable enterprise in America. Common’s “Daily Show comments…
Ronnie Kasrils
Danny Schechter (1942-2015): Media Activist and Clandestine Courier
01 Apr 2015
by Ronnie Kasrils Danny Schecter, the “media dissector,” prolific writer and tireless activist, once acted as a secret courier for the South African freedom movement, and “forged strong personal links with many South African comrades such as Joe Slovo, Ruth First, Pallo Jordan, Zanele Mbeki, Sue…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Physical Murder and Political Asphyxiation: The Story of Danielle Hicks-Best
01 Apr 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo An 11 year-old Black girl is raped twice by men and winds up jailed and institutionalized for years by a callous and predatory system. The abomination lays bare the thin line that many African-American children and families tread “between…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: American Hell for Yemen
01 Apr 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The U.S.-spawned whirlwind of carnage and destruction has wrecked the societies of Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen, yet most Americans feel themselves blameless. “The people, the corporate media and the political system all accept that…