| Black Agenda Report

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…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
What The Video Shows
01 Dec 2015
by BAR's poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Video, as police and military malefactors frequently remind us, is two dimensional.
amandla mobi
South African TV Breaks Promise to Marikana Widows
01 Dec 2015
by amandla.mobi Three years ago, police massacred 34 striking miners at Marikana, South Africa – a watershed event in the growing resistance to the African National Congress government’s neoliberal policies. With the ANC deeply implicated in the massacre, the South African Broadcasting Corporation…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Rwanda Conscripts Burundian Refugees into New “Rebel Force”: An Interview with Jeff Drumtra
01 Dec 2015
by Ann Garrison Rwandan Tutsi dictator Paul Kagame came to power as a leader of a Uganda-based rebel army that invaded Rwanda, plunging the nation a into civil war that ended in the deaths of hundreds of thousands. Now Kagame’s Rwanda is recruiting refugees from neighboring Burundi into a rebel…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Reflections on Multiracial Identity on Another Thanksgiving Passed
01 Dec 2015
by Danny Haiphong The U.S. imperial domain floats on raw force and fairy tales. One myth “paints the U.S. as a safe haven for people of different backgrounds instead of the genocidal settler state that it is.” Another tale holds that multi-racial identity “carries with it new experiences…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Killer White Men and the People Who Love Them
01 Dec 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The usual suspects have once again gone on a killing spree, this time in Colorado. President Obama moaned, as usual, about too many guns. Anti-abortionists claimed their guy was mentally ill, and that they are not to blame. But white society…