| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
TFA/BlackLivesMatter/CampaignZero Activist Brittney Packnett (Almost) Tries to Defend the Indefensible
22 Oct 2015
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Stung by growing public recognition of Teach For America's heinous role in destabilizing communites and destroying public education, CampaignZero/BlackLivesMatter activist & TFA's Brittney Packnett took to Huffington Post last week to defend herself and TFA…
Julian Cola
Brazil Welcomes Dr. Carl Hart
28 Oct 2015
by Julian Cola Brazil, with the largest Black population outside of Africa, attempts to perpetuate the myth that it is a “racial democracy.” If so, it is an incredibly violent one. “Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary General, stated that 50,000 people are killed in Brazil every year,” many…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Miners Shot Down!: “The Marikana Massacre Represents the Beginning of the End of the ANC”
28 Oct 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The tombstones of apartheid were laid at Sharpeville in 1960 and Soweto, 1976. History will record that the death knell for the African National Congress regime was sounded at Marikana, in 2012, where ANC honcho and mine stockholder Cyril…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: White Settler Gentrification
30 Oct 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Black urbanites are under siege “because the dictates of capitalism and racism demand that white people return to the cities they fled.” Landlords break every law in the book to rid themselves of Black tenants to make room for the newcomers.…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Garza vs. McKesson: The Great Debate Over How the Democratic Party Will Liberate Black People
30 Oct 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford One side wants the Democrats to sponsor a town hall meeting on racial justice, the other prefers that the Party hold a Black issues oriented debate. Both #BlackLivesMatter and Campaign Zero have earned semi-official status as Democratic Party affiliates. The…
The Real News Network
The Glen Ford Report: High Stakes Testing is a Weapon for School Privatization
28 Oct 2015
by the Real News Network White House pledges to reduce standardized testing are bogus, says Ford. Administration policy is to use standardized testing to "fail" public schools and replace them with charters.
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Oink
28 Oct 2015
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner in which the poet muses upon the landscapeve in which urban pioneers thrive
Charles Kambanda
Rwandan Parliament Makes US Ally and Military Partner Paul Kagame President for Life
04 Nov 2015
by Charles Kambanda Paul Kagame, the military leader of the Tutsi minority-dominated regime in Rwanda, has engineered a constitutional coup to keep himself in power – mocking his Euro-American sponsors’ claims that Kagame is a force for democracy in Africa. The rewritten constitution would…
Veli Mbele
Free Education: The Right to Call Our Souls Our Own
04 Nov 2015
by Veli Mbele The South African student struggle is about much more than high fees and limited Black representation at universities. “Black students are fighting against a system whose foundation is white supremacy, capitalism, anti-Blackness and now neo-liberalism.”
Thomas C. Mountain
Benghazi Smokescreen: Hiding Western War Crimes in Libya
04 Nov 2015
Republicans and Democrats at the Benghazi hearings collaborated to disguise what the U.S. was really up to in Libya: regime change and the empowerment of Islamic jihadists in north Africa. As a result of the U.S.-NATO aggression, “fanatics from the entire region have a haven to rest and recuperate…