| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
McKesson's Colbert Appearance is the Direction Imperialism Wants for the Black Lives Matter Movement
27 Jan 2016
by Danny Haiphong DeRay McKesson, the twitterist whose followers have met twice with Hillary Clinton, appeared on Stephen Colbert’s show to conduct what looked like another of Campaign Zero’s “racial sensitivity sessions.” Outrageously, McKesson has compared charter schools to the Black Panther…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Flint, Michigan and Democracy
27 Jan 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Disaster capitalists demand – and get – government subsidies to carry out their crimes. However, the poor victims of corporate mayhem can’t count on their elected officials to demand even modest compensation. Flint, Michigan’s mayor “could have…
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Ph.D and Kevin Berend
The EPA Blame Game and the Flint Lead Atrocity: Criminal Prosecutions Must Follow
27 Jan 2016
by EPA editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Kevin Berends The law is clear: once officials at the federal Environmental Protection Agency were made aware of hazardous material in Flint, Michigan’s water, they were required by statute to take action to remove it. The chief of the EPA…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Ethnic Cleansing: The Ultimate Environmental Racism
28 Jan 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford What happened in Flint was not a simple case of environmental racism, but ethnic cleansing by lethal means. The ethnic cleansing of the cities – otherwise known as gentrification – is an existential threat to Black people in the United States. Flint signals that…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
What Would A Real Discussion on Reparations Look Like? Have We Ever Had One?
28 Jan 2016
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon What would a serious discussion on reparations look like? Will anybody ever come up with a realistic roadmap to get there, or is reparations talk just that –- all talk? Is reparations an answer to class politics, or is it the politics of a particular class? And…
Ezili Danto
No More Electoral Coups: OAS is Not Welcome in Haiti
03 Feb 2016
by Èzili Dantò Since 2004, the Haitian people have been occupied: first by U.S. troops and, next, by an international force under the United Nations. Then, following the 2010 earthquake, the Organization of American States and the U.S. rigged an election to impose the dictatorship of Michel “Sweet…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
African Union Refuses to Invade Burundi
03 Feb 2016
by Ann Garrison The African Union has reversed its decision to send 5,000 “peacekeepers” to Burundi, at the instigation of the U.S. and Europeans. The real threat to Burundi comes from neighboring Rwanda, which is training an army of refugees to invade Burundi. Why did the AU have a change…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
On the Utility of Self-Criticism and Criticism in the Future of Struggle: The Case of Ta-Nehisi Coates
03 Feb 2016
by Danny Haiphong The author recommends that a healthy dose of criticism and self-criticism might clarify Ta-Nehisi Coates’ argument with Bernie Sanders over reparations. “It would be appropriate to ask Coates why he chose to single out Sanders as a socialist even though Sanders has positioned…
Netfa Freeman
From Civil Rights to Human Rights, Black Community Control Now!
03 Feb 2016
by Netfa Freeman A United Nations Working Group preliminary report on human rights violations against Black America advocates Black community control of police. That’s the general position of Pan African Community Action, one of the groups that testified before the UN experts. Community control of…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Clinton, Petraeus, Snowden and Manning: The Tail of the Two Americas
03 Feb 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The U.S. government does not hesitate to imprison those who leak its secrets – unless they are Hillary Clinton or some other Big Shot. “What is remarkable about American democracy is the consistent and perpetual benevolence of the ruling class…