| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Huey Newton: A Revolutionary Hero
09 Mar 2016
by Danny Haiphong The film that does justice to Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party has yet to be created. Stanley Nelson’s PBS depiction “is riddled with distortion and inaccuracy” and virtually ignores the party’s enormous “contributions to the historic struggle for socialist…
Paul Street
“All Lives Matter”: More Stupid White Noise
09 Mar 2016
by Paul Street Mountains of statistics testify to the national disregard for Black lives. But white supremacists fire back that Blacks have “brought it on themselves” and victimize their own people through “Black-on-Black” crime, ignoring the core reality that “intra-Back violence takes places…
Kali Akuno
Countering the Confederate “Spring”: the Assault on Black Political Power in Jackson, MS
09 Mar 2016
by the Jackson Human Rights Institute and Cooperation Jackson Majority Black Jackson, Mississippi is about to be stripped of control of its most valuable assets by a Republican legislature. Everywhere, white capital is determined to retain their control over all the capital accumulating processes…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
The “Negro Whisperer” from 1926 to 2016: Seasonal Workers
09 Mar 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo MSNBC has decided that its stable of in-house Black Democrats is no longer in season, and can be discarded. Melissa Harris-Perry is hurt. She and others specializing in interpreting Black folks to white folks (and vice versa) are being pushed…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Bernie Sanders and the End of the Democratic Party
09 Mar 2016
If Bernie Sanders supporters are serious about making fundamental change, they should start a new party, one that does more than run in billion dollar elections every couple of years. Hillary Clinton’s impending primaries victory “is an opportunity to break with a system which is incapable of being…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
A Republican Meltdown Won’t Make the Democrats Better
10 Mar 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The impending breakup of the Republican Party will not create more favorable conditions for Black and progressive electoral politics. Instead, it will compel the Democrats to build a “big tent” party, after the convention this summer. The strategy will “push Blacks…
Solomon Comissiong
Hillary Clinton: The Wicked Witch of the West
16 Mar 2016
by Solomon Comissiong Some evil is banal, some unspeakable. Hillary Clinton is wickedly evil. “Thanks to vile fork-tongued warmongers like her, Libya is a country that is now submerged in a quagmire of civil war, death and destruction.” Hillary brings death here at home, as well. “She has been a…
Patrick Bond
Austerity Gathers Pace in Schizophrenic South Africa
16 Mar 2016
by Patrick Bond The unprecedented contagion of what President Zuma has called “gossip and rumor” around his inner circle threatens the internal stability of the Pretoria regime. The loyalty of many key individuals is being tested. Indeed the ANC’s schizophrenia was amplified recently Zuma himself…
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
Why We Should Teach About the FBI’s War on the Civil Rights Movement
16 Mar 2016
by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca Nobody’s history – Black, white or brown – is taught in U.S. classrooms if COINTELPRO is not part of the lesson plan. Civics and social studies are defective and deceptive if they fail to inform students of the FBI’s campaign to “neutralize” dissidents by any means necessary,…
Bryan K. Bullock
Blacks Have Always Had to Fight to Make Their Lives Matter in America
16 Mar 2016
by Bryan K. Bullock The simple, straight-forward assertion “Black Lives Matter” seems to jangle the sensibilities of millions of white Americans, who counter that “ALL lives matter” or “BLUE lives matter.” They feel assaulted by affirmations of the worthiness of Black life, yet claim to be non-…