| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Day 24, #FightForDyett Hunger Strike Continues, Black Political Class Stands for Privatization
09 Sep 2015
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The national fight against school privatization is focused on Chicago, were Sept 9 is the 24th day of the #FightForDyett hunger strike. Parents and community members are resisting the national polices of school privatization being forced down our throats by the…
Jonas Persson
Web of Secrecy Surrounds Federal Half-a-Billion Handout to Charter Schools
09 Sep 2015
by Jonas Persson Hell-bent on quietly forcing the bipartisan neoliberal project of school privatization down the the unwilling and oft unwitting throats of mostly black constituencies across the land, the Obama Administration's cynically misnamed Department of Education is handing out another wad…
Imam Jamil Action Network
Stop the execution of Imam Jamil, the former H. Rap Brown, by medical neglect in federal prison
09 Sep 2015
by the Imam Jamil Action Network Imam Jamil Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown is an internationally recognized political prisoner. A former member of SNCC personally responsible for cranking up the early and mid-1960s organizng drives in Alabama, and longtime community leader and iman on the west…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Trumpocalypse: Democrats Rule Blacks by Fear
10 Sep 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Donald Trump is a very useful man, to both the Democratic and Republican factions of the ruling corporate party. The “White Man’s Party” (Republican) faction can blame excesses of hate on him, and the other faction (Democrats) can make their case as the lesser evil…
Patrick Bond
South Africa’s Deal with the Devil, Revisited: Mandela’s ‘Faustian Pact’ with World Capital
16 Sep 2015
by Patrick Bond An intelligence document has surfaced claiming that the white establishment through the private sector has a huge influence in the running of the South African National Treasury and that the history of this influence dates back to the early 1990s when the ANC and the white,…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Refugee Crisis and the Truth Behind Imperialism's "Humanitarian" Response
16 Sep 2015
by Danny Haiphong The same imperialist powers whose proxy war created the Syrian refugee crisis claim a “humanitarian” responsibility to wage more war against the country – “a reworking of the centuries-old imperialist logic that US and European domination brings ‘civilization’ and ‘democracy’ to…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Whole Fools—White Foods?
16 Sep 2015
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner With my appetite growing, while foraging for a reasonably-priced nosh—my black uniformed shadow, mirroring my movements, applied the kibosh! Whole Fools—White Foods?
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The Yemen Tragedy and the Ongoing Crisis of the Left in the United States
16 Sep 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka With their support for Bernie Sanders, much of the Left has decided that “lives in the White West matter more than others.” The Democratic presidential candidate encourages Saudi Arabia to “get its hands dirty,” when the Wahabbist monarchs are already…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Anti-Russian Propaganda
16 Sep 2015
by BAR editor and senior Margaret Kimberley Everywhere the U.S. “pivots” to in the world, it spreads dehumanizing propaganda. President Obama has methodically demonized Russia, stoked fears of the “peril” from China, and fanned the flames of Islamophobia. The corporate media are eager accomplices…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Scholar Says Rwandan Massacres Were Class War; Faces Deportation
16 Sep 2015
by Ann Garrison Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame sends hit squads around the globe to eliminate critics of his minority-based government. The regime is seeking to silence dissident Léopold Munyakazi through deportation back to Rwanda from the United States. The author interviewed Munyakazi's lawyer,…