| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The Paris Attacks and the White Lives Matter Movement
18 Nov 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The white world views French victims of ISIS as more valuable – more human – than the thousands of Arabs, Kurds and Africans murdered in terror attacks, or the billions of people exploited, enslaved and exterminated by Europeans over the past five centuries…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Weaponized Condolences of a Warfare State
18 Nov 2015
By BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Terror attacks against French civilians have become the excuse du jour for the US surveillance state, for ramping up drone murders of other civilians, and military boots on the ground everywhere from Syria to south Philly.
The Real News Network
Paris Terror Attacks Are French Chickens Coming Home to Roost, Predictable Blowback of France's Recent and Historic Murderous Misadventures Around the World
18 Nov 2015
by the Real News Network 1--break--> Glen Ford explains that terror attacks against French civilians are chickens come home to roost, the predictable blowback of centuries of French imperial war and colonial oppression, and of recent French participation as junior partner in the US fomented…
Norman Richmond
The Sports of Empire
24 Nov 2015
by Norman (Otis) Richmond Sports has traveled the world on the fortunes of empire – and the misfortunes of the conquered. “’Thanks’ to imperialism, Africans in the Western Hemisphere were involved in baseball, cricket and football/soccer.”
Kester Kenn Klomegah
Russia: Attempting a Bridge to Africa
24 Nov 2015
by Kester Kenn Klomegah While Russia's interest in sub-Saharan Africa is nothing new, Russian authorities have realized that it’s time to move back primarily to reclaim its economic footprints and to find old Soviet-era allies, but that step comes with new challenges especially from other foreign…
Suzanne Ross
To Protect and Serve Who? Mumia’s New Pamphlet on Organizing to Abolish Police Violence
24 Nov 2015
by Suzanne Ross The nation’s best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal, has weighed in on the debate over how to control the police. The former Black Panther “uses the Marxist analysis of the police as the enforcers of the will of the ruling class, and “how that role continues in the post-…
Cynthia McKinney
Obama Needs to “Pivot” to the Crisis at Home
24 Nov 2015
by Cynthia McKinney President Obama risks getting whiplash from all the global pivots he’s executing. Meanwhile, the One Percent continue to suck the economy dry in a “massive theft that has seen more wealth of Black America stolen than at any time since the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.” Obama…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Imperialism's "Chickens Come Home to Roost" in Paris to Fuel War and Repression
24 Nov 2015
by Danny Haiphong For nearly 40 years the U.S. and its allies have played “a dangerous game of carrot and stick with terrorist forces” in the Arab and Muslim world, using them as proxies to destroy secular governments. Now it’s blow back time. “ISIS and the jihadist network plan on turning …
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
No More American Thanksgivings
24 Nov 2015
by Glen Ford “The core ideological content of the holiday serves to validate all that has since occurred on these shores – a national consecration of the unspeakable, a balm and benediction for the victors, a blessing of the fruits of murder and kidnapping, and an implicit obligation to continue…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: 1961 Paris Massacre
24 Nov 2015
The French will tell you that this month’s ISIS attack inflicted the biggest death toll on Paris since World War Two. They would be lying. Fifty-four years ago, French police massacred hundreds of Algerians right in the heart of the city – and then pretended it never happened. France has enslaved…