| Black Agenda Report

Solomon Comissiong
Hillary Clinton, The Democratic Party Plantation and The Black Political Pundits Who Do Their Bidding
19 Oct 2016
by Solomon Comissiong The Democrats and Republicans are both proven evils. “Donald Trump is a devoted racist and xenophobe and Hillary Clinton is an imperialist who has a track record of destroying human life.” Now if the time for Black people to “take possession of the politics within our…
Oscar Wailoo
A Canadian Vote for Trump: Let America Get a Taste of It’s Own Medicine
19 Oct 2016
by Oscar Wailoo Hillary Clinton is right; she does have the experience to be a U.S. president: a track record in slaughtering unlimited numbers of people. Donald Trump, the bombastic, “utterly cold psychopath,” is also well suited to the American presidency. He would build walls and set loose the…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
The Black President and the Black-on-the-Inside Preacher, A Bad Day for Identity Politics
19 Oct 2016
by Ann Garrison The man most responsible for the death of six million Congolese – the worst genocide since World War Two – holds periodic celebrations in cities all around the world to celebrate the accomplishments of his regime. Rwandan President Paul Kagame is armed, financed and protected by the…
Benjamin Woods
Advancing Black Liberation Through Economic Justice
19 Oct 2016
by Benjamin Woods Black America has always revered education as a stairway to progress, but the data show that “education has not created social mobility for Black people, and it has done little to close the Black-white wage gap.” Black millennials put far less trust in the U.S. electoral system,…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
South African Students March on the Chamber of Mines to demand #Fees Must Fall
19 Oct 2016
by BAR Editor and Columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo The Freedom Charter, the socialist document that united South Africans in the battle against apartheid, has become the focus of a new wave of activism among the nation’s students. Protests have shut down most of the country’s universities. “Activists…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Henry Louis Gates' $10 Million Scam
19 Oct 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, “the supreme hustler-in-chief of black America,” has sold his white corporate friends on a $10 million scheme to advise the rich on how to end Black poverty. The project claims to be “non-ideological” -- another way of…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Is Back Coalition to Hold a People’s Convention on Self-Determination
19 Oct 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford On November 5 and 6, a coalition of Black organizations will put forward a 19-point National Agenda for Self-Determination, to chart a pathway to real democracy and freedom. “Every central demand, every strategy of struggle, must be formulated with the goal of self…
Thomas C. Mountain
Preventing Cultural Genocide with the Mother Tongue Policy in Eritrea
26 Oct 2016
by Thomas C. Mountain Eritrea, a small nation on the African coast of the Red Sea, is home to six million people speaking nine different languages. Despite punishing sanctions imposed by western imperialism, Eritrea has made sure that young people from all nine language groups can read and write in…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Two Anniversaries: The Congo Invasion and Ingabire’s Arrest
26 Oct 2016
by Ann Garrison It was 20 years ago this month that Rwanda invaded the Democratic Republic of Congo, setting in motion a genocide that has claimed more than six million lives. Six years ago this month, Rwandan presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire for attempting to remind the world that Hutus…
Darío Mizrahi
29 Years Ago, Thomas Sankara, the African Che Guevara, was Murdered
26 Oct 2016
by Darío Mizrahi Thomas Sankara was a young communist officer who attempted to take Burkina Faso out of the neocolonial orbit of France, but was murdered by his closest comrades. During Sankara’s short time in power, Burkina Faso became self-sufficient in grains. “He was the first to forbid female…