| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Authoritarian African Leaders with a Thin Veneer of Democratic Legitimacy
03 Jun 2015
by Ann Garrison The U.S. and its genocidal allies, Uganda and Rwanda, sought to destabilize the government of Burundi by painting its elected president as power hungry. President Pierre Nkurunziza seeks a third term in office. The leaders of Uganda and Burundi, as well as neighboring DR Congo, have…
Bill Quigley
40 Reasons Our Jails and Prisons Are Full of Black and Poor People
03 Jun 2015
by Bill Quigley There are many paths to prison in the United States, the undisputed world leader in incarceration. The process begins with hyper-surveillance that can last a lifetime. “Not until Black men reach 50 years old do their rate of police stops for this kind of treatment dip below…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
May 19th Versus Memorial Day in the Battle of Ideas
03 Jun 2015
by Danny Haiphong Rather than memorialize U.S. imperial wars, we should mark the birthdays and legacies of Malcolm X, who “strongly condemned US imperialism's invasion of Vietnam,” Yuri Kochiyama, who cradled Malcolm’s dying head and spent another half century as a committed “fighter for Black and…
Dianne Feeley
A Hurricane without Water: Detroit’s Foreclosure Disaster
03 Jun 2015
by Dianne Feeley Public policy in Detroit, the nation’s largest majority Black city, seems structured to create blight and force the current population out of their homes. Sixty-two thousand properties are set for foreclosure, this year, more than half of them occupied. “This could result in the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Who is on the Left?
03 Jun 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Much of what calls itself “left” in the United States is phony – “left” only in the most relative, but not substantive, sense. It exists only in juxtaposition to the Republican boogieman, and has made no real break with “America’s horrendous…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
be like Mike
03 Jun 2015
by Raymond Nat Turner
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
This is What Happens When We Follow the Democrat Sheepdog. And What Can Happen If We Don't
03 Jun 2015
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon It's time for a realistic plan to lift left electoral choices out of the “lesser of two evils” dilemma. The tools and opportunity to escape this perennial trap are here, but only if activists turn their backs on the lure of sheepdog Bernie Sanders and his…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Rand Paul Makes More Sense than the Democrats’ “Left” Champion
03 Jun 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford U.S. rulers have designated Hillary Clinton as the Democrats’ next front person, while Sen. Bernie Sanders has volunteered to be the loyal “lefty” opposition – who will step aside and endorse Clinton at the proper time. Sanders will refuse to indict Obama or…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Mass Protests Trigger Washington Post Study of Police Killings
03 Jun 2015
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The federal government has never gathered meaningful statistics on police killings of civilians. Now the Washington Post has begun an ongoing examination of deaths at the hands of police, in cooperation with two existing web sites that have…
Patrick Bond
World Soccer Corruption, Africa’s “Illicit Financial Flows” and Elite Silences
10 Jun 2015
by Patrick Bond Corruption is built into the ruling structures of the United States, which has launched globe-trotting prosecutions of soccer bribery, and South Africa, which is suspected of paying bribes to host the World Cup. But the real costs of sports extravaganzas in South Africa could be as…