| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
A Lesson from Standing Rock
14 Dec 2016
by Danny Haiphong There have been very few people’s victories under the Obama administration. His corporate policies have prevailed mainly by default, due largely to the failure of progressives to confront the First Black President. “The anti-war movement has been buried in the Democratic Party…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Fighting for Southern Human Rights
14 Dec 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The South, where more than half of the Black U.S. population lives, has based its economic appeal on the stinginess of its social safety net, the relative poverty of its people, and the savagery of its criminal justice system. Capitalism truly…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Corporate Democrats Stir Up War Fever Against Russia to Turn Election
15 Dec 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The orchestrators of the anti-Russian war hysteria “have shown over the past several weeks that they are willing, and even eager, to bring down the whole edifice of U.S. social and political ‘checks and balances’ -- freedom of speech and other civil liberties -- to…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Red Alert
14 Dec 2016
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Now that Democrats are practically out of office, corporate donors are sponsoring empty spectacles of their own design, including another Climate March.
This Is Hell
Don't believe the Russia hype: Who profits from the new Red Scare?
21 Dec 2016
Don't believe the Russia hype: Who profits from the new Red Scare? by our friends at This Is Hell Radio It's an old habit for us. We inflated the threat of Russia for years and years to justify spending untold billions on the military, and that went away when the Soviet Union fell apart. But now…
Ama Biney
What Should Reparations for Slavery Entail?
21 Dec 2016
by Ama Biney In the light of the former British Prime Minister’s dismissal of reparations, activists must push the debate further by detailing what reparations should entail. Fundamental to a reparations program must be the fact that we transform the system of capitalism which slavery gave birth to…
Michael Z. Muhammad
Sundiata Acoli – “They are Determined to Bury Him Alive”
21 Dec 2016
by Michael Z. Muhammad He will turn 80 in January, but a New Jersey parole board wants to keep Sundiati Acoli in prison another 15 years. Just two years ago, a panel of judges ordered the parole board to “expeditiously set conditions” for the release of the former Black Panther, arrested with…
Ezili Danto
Haitians Say “No” to the Imperialists and Their “Banana Man”
21 Dec 2016
by Èzili Dantò Five years ago, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton imposed a criminal right-wing regime on the militarily occupied people of Haiti. Now the U.S. and its allies have rigged yet another Haitian presidential election. “The CIA and US government have been busy creating new gangsters…
Ron West
U.S. Corporate Media: Liar, Liar, with Pants on Fire
21 Dec 2016
by Ron West Among the multiplying fables and fake news eagerly disseminated by U.S. corporate media is the claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered the alleged hacking of U.S. Democrats. Sources within U.S. intelligence agencies are cited. Why anyone would believe anything out…
Norman Solomon
Under Amazon’s CIA Cloud: The Washington Post
21 Dec 2016
by Norman Solomon When the national political “newspaper of record” is owned by a business partner of the CIA, every word on its pages should be suspect. Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is in financial bed with a cloak and dagger agency that tells lies for living, yet the public is expected to…