| Black Agenda Report

Joel Northam
The Black Lives Matter Schism: Towards a Vision for Black Autonomy
13 Oct 2015
by Joel Northam The #BlackLivesMatter organization’s “Campaign Zero” is the “ultimate bastardization of militant resistance” – an absurd catch-all of proposals masquerading as demands. The “campaign’s” authors reveal themselves as “Black petit-bourgeois liberals who legitimately hate the system,…
Drew Franklin
The Movement Lives in Ferguson: Teach For America, Black Leadership, and Disaster Capitalism
13 Oct 2015
by Drew Franklin Teach for America is a corporate “Trojan Horse” that has deeply penetrated the #BlackLivesMatter organization. Brittany Packnett and Deray Mckesson represent the TFA’s “long game” to develop “a leadership class of its own” – embedded in the upper ranks of an incipient Black “…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Stein Bop Blues March On Gentrifiers
13 Oct 2015
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Unsettling settlers settle settling like sulfur over UN peace talks. Unsettling settlers settle neighborly disputes using police like cavalry and Kit Carson Indian killers going West.
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
The Million Man March from the Perspective of Millennials: Which Way Forward?
13 Oct 2015
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo They journeyed to the Washington Mall by the hundreds of thousands, as had Black men 20 years before. They were led to believe that an ultimatum had been issued to Power: “Justice or Else.” But, “was the question of ‘Justice or Else’ ever…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: French Workers Show How to Fight
13 Oct 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Workers in the United States have learned some painful lessons: that they live on less than their peers in much of Europe and are woefully insecure in their jobs and retirements – if they have jobs and retirement plans, at all. What U.S. workers…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
#BlackLivesMatter: Chat Partners with Hillary
14 Oct 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The #BlackLivesMatter organization is now part of the 2016 Democratic Party election machinery, assuming its role as a power broker on behalf of Black people. It’s a familiar historical pattern, except for the speed with which the transition has taken place. “The #…
Solomon Comissiong
Massa I Won’t Tell: Why Many Black Athletes/Entertainers Remain Silent on Social Justice Issues
21 Oct 2015
by Solomon Comissiong We collectively cringe when they speak before the cameras: Black athletes and entertainers mouthing words designed to please racist white fans. “Why should any African/black person cheerlead for other African/black entertainers if they lack the moral courage to lend their…
Thomas C. Mountain
Climate Disaster Hammers Ethiopia
21 Oct 2015
by Thomas C. Mountain Western capitalists are all the rage about the phenomenal “success” of Ethiopia’s economy. Yet, Africa’s second most populous nation cannot feed its desperately poor people. Foreign money goes largely to prop up “the largest, best equipped army in Africa,” which acts as “the…
Didas Gasana
Like Syria, Burundi is a War Theater: The China-Russia Axis vs. the US-EU Axis
21 Oct 2015
by Didas Gasana There is no doubt that the U.S.-led unipolar global order is facing stiff competition from the East. The BRICS block, especially Russian and China, so far presents to the U.S. the most difficult challenge since the U.S. rise to global supremacy. “Deep down in the center of sub-…
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Moderate Extremism and Extremist Moderation: Symptoms of Structural Illiteracy and Racism in the US-European Empire
21 Oct 2015
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children was “worth it” – meaning, a reasonable price to pay for continued U.S. global dominance. There is no price in “colored” people’s blood and sovereignty that the U.S. Empire is…