| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Police “Training” is the Problem: They are Trained to Oppress Blacks
16 Sep 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Black people don’t need more “training” of the cops that patrol their communities. What’s needed is a new mission for the police – one that is radically different than the current armed occupation – and Black community control over both the project and the…
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,…
The Real News Network
Cuba Frees 3,522 Prisoners Ahead of Papal Visit, Will America Follow Suit?
16 Sep 2015
by the Real news Network
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
In Defense of the Panthers: Why the Film "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" Should be Put Down, and the Book "Black Against Empire" Picked Up
23 Sep 2015
by Danny Haiphong The author endorses former Panther leader Elaine Brown’s critique of the movie, However, Blacks Against Empire, the acclaimed book on the Party, meets his approval as “actual historical analysis that is useful for those seeking lessons from the lived struggle of the Panthers.”
Yash Tandon
WTO is a War Machine
23 Sep 2015
by Yash Tandon The World Trade Organization, controlled by a new empire that still disfavors the Global South, broadens the gap between influential and developing nations. With a neocolonial system implicitly in place, if small and middle-sized countries do not 'follow the rules' as dictated by the…
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
What NEW World Order?
23 Sep 2015
by Dr. T.P. Wilkinson The current world older is nothing new. It is more than a half millennium old, having begun in 1492 when western Europeans began their conquest and enslavement of the rest of the planet. The order that white people created “has been nothing but a collective death sentence for…
Thomas C. Mountain
Eritrea: Where Muslims and Christians Live in Peace
23 Sep 2015
by Thomas C. Mountain Western media claim that religious hatreds have wracked the Middle East and Africa from time immemorial. But lethal fractures are not intrinsic to these societies, nor are they inevitable. The multi-ethno-religious – yet proudly secular – nation of Eritrea, is proof.
Pascal Robert
Black Eugenics: How the Black Mis-leadership Class of the Early 20th Century Supported Sterilization of the Black Poor
23 Sep 2015
by Pascal Robert Throughout African American history, members of the Black elite have blamed the Black poor for “bringing down the race,” thus giving aid and comfort to white racists. “Calls by Negro reformers to improve the quality of the race often imbibed eugenic language.”
Paul Street
What Color is Your T-Shirt? Race, Class, Empire, and White Democrats in a Liberal Campus Town
23 Sep 2015
by Paul Street Bernie Sanders is beloved among the “white middle class campus town progressive Democrats” in places like Iowa City, Iowa, who live quite different lives than the largely Sudanese and Congolese workers at the county’s major factory. “Both Sudan and the Congo are countries in which…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
a place…
23 Sep 2015
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner I know a place where there’s more law in muzzles of Glocks and Tasers than in Supreme Court decisions; a place where gunmen, triggermen turn traffic tickets into death sentences