| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Anti-Black Racism Exposed in Israel and the U.S.
06 May 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Ethiopian Israelis “evoked the spirit of Baltimore” as they protested against racism in the Jewish State, last week. Israel and the U.S. are both settler colonies whose foundational ideologies “justify land expropriation, displacement and dispersal, in the…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Bringing the Crisis to a Head in Baltimore
07 May 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The synergy of mass protest and physical resistance to police in Baltimore “scared the powers-that-be to their bones” and set the stage for a summer of organized discontent. “Whatever this ‘movement’ will ultimately be called, it announced its active presence in a…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders: Sheepdogging for Hillary and the Democrats in 2016
07 May 2015
Vermont senator and ostensible socialist Bernie Sanders is playing the sheepdog candidate for Hillary Clinton this year. Bernie's job is to warm up the crowd for Hillary, herding activist energies and the disaffected left back into the Democratic fold one more time. Bernie aims to tie up activist…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Interview of Samaria Rice, Part 2 of 2: “Tamir Was Blamed for Causing His Own Death”
06 May 2015
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo In this exclusive interview, Samaria Rice speaks courageously about the day that changed her life forever. Her 12 year old son, Tamir Rice was brutally killed by Cleveland, Ohio police on November 22, 2014. Tamir was attacked and killed by…
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Who Won Which War? A fly’s Eye View of the American War Against Vietnam: 40 Years Later
13 May 2015
by Dr. T. P. Wilkinson If you believe that there was only one, multigenerational war in Vietnam, then the history of the country has escaped you. One war defeated French and Japanese colonialism. In the next, Washington “sent mainly African-Americans and poor whites to kill ‘gooks’” in the millions…
John Pilger
The Secret Country Again Wages War on its Own People
13 May 2015
by John Pilger Rednecks aren’t just from the United States. Australia’s policies towards it indigenous population are “influenced by the same eugenics movement that inspired the Nazis,” and “Queensland’s ‘protection acts’ were a model for South African apartheid.” The Aussies are engaged in another…
Dan Glazebrook
Britain, Libya and the Mediterranean: The Creation of a Humanitarian Emergency
13 May 2015
The European Union sees seaborne refugees from North Africa and the Middle East as dangers to European national security. In truth, the exodus is the result of the nation-destroying policies of the West, which is now multiplying its crimes by using the refugee crisis as a pretext to further…
Paul Street
A Racially Blind Night in the Life of the “P”BS Newshour
13 May 2015
by Paul Street The rich son of the owner of a major league baseball team seems to have a better understanding of race and class in America than the Black co-anchor of Public Television’s premier news show. John Angelos “placed the real and underlying blame” for unrest in Baltimore “on the investor…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Broomstick by Boeing—she’s baaaaack!
13 May 2015
by BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner “A little poison,” in her depleted uranium The Iron Lady’s baaaack—in titanium! Some vile, nightmarish, dream-like crack But, it’s no dream—she’s baaaaaaaaaack!
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
“Thanks to our Revolution, the Cuban People will protect Assata Shakur!”
13 May 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo When the United States and Cuban began the process of “normalizing” relations, supporters of exiled former Black Panther Assata Shakur worried that her political asylum in Cuba might become a bargaining chip. Cuban officials are quick to dispel…