| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Way Too Little, But Not Too Late: Hillary & Dems Fake the Funk on Voting Rights
18 Jun 2015
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Hillary is getting undeserved praise for her stand on voting rights, which is way too little, and factually less than some of her apologists want us to believe. But she's a Democrat. After blowing the historic 40 year window during which a Constitutional right…
Mel Reeves
Does Passing for Black Challenge White Supremacy?
24 Jun 2015
by Mel Reeves Demands for Rachel Dolezal’s heavily braided head ring hollow, from both Black and white quarters. “Many of those who are distraught over Dolezal’s passing haven’t done as much to advance the cause of racial justice as she has in just two decades of passing.” However, Dolezal “missed…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Dolezal Fakes Black Womanhood, Reveals Depth of White Supremacy in the US
24 Jun 2015
by Danny Haiphong Rachel Dolezal’s long foray into a fake “Blackness” is viewed by some as an affirmation that race is a social construct that creates false categories of humans. However, the fact remains that “the power structure that rules these categories ensures conditions of exploitation and…
Ajamu Nangwaya
The Fall of a Right-Wing Black Canadian Politician
24 Jun 2015
by Ajamu Nangwaya The unraveling of Sen. Don Meredith’s political career has nothing to do with Black “progress” in Canada. As a loyal member of the Conservative Party, Meredith supports mining interests that exploit Africa and, domestically, “is not on record opposing any of the anti-people laws…
Chris Hedges
America’s Slave Empire: The Resistance Movements Against US Prisons
24 Jun 2015
by Chris Hedges “We are not looking to politicians to submit reform bills,” say prisoners in Alabama, withholding work until they are paid wages. “We aren’t giving more money to lawyers. We don’t believe in the courts.” The penal slave order must be broken. “The kryptonite to fight the prison…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Obama and the Logic of Massacre, from Birmingham to Charleston
24 Jun 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo President Obama took to the airwaves to absolve his administration of responsibility for the Charleston Massacre and endemic racist violence against Black people. But his Justice Department has refused to prosecute killer cops. “The…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Closing the Historical Circle: White Terrorism at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church
24 Jun 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The commander-in-chief of the greatest purveyor of violence in the world laments the massacre in Charleston. But “Obama just wants to make sure that the violence is state-sanctioned.” He is happy to “send arms to known Islamic extremists in Syria, provide…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: U.S. Pushes Russia Towards War
24 Jun 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The lies that the U.S. corporate media tell can get us all killed. The United States is pushing Russia, which remains a nuclear superpower, to the brink and beyond – yet Americans are wholly ignorant of the facts and the issues at play. “In 2015…
The Real News Network
The Ford Report: US Police Killings Violate International Law
24 Jun 2015
by the Real News Network Amnesty International finds all 50 states and Washington, DC, fail to comply with international law and standards on the use of lethal force by law enforcement officers.
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Black Lives Matter…little under capitalism…
24 Jun 2015
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Death keeps arriving, acknowledging no sanctuaries.