| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Communities Betrayed and Sick, the EPA Office of Civil Rights Under the Spotlight
03 Jan 2017
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo Just because Donald Trump hates the EPA doesn’t mean the agency has ever acted in the interest of Black people. “Whether the EPA is controlled by the Democratic or Republican Parties, the agency has had a consistent and negative impact on Black and…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Propaganda Gift to Trump
03 Jan 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Political hysteria has its ironies. President Obama has just signed into law a new office of government propaganda that is intended to prevent any warming of relations with Russia under a Trump administration. But, President Trump will appoint…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Trump’s Neo-Fascism will be Built on Neo-Fascism of Obama and Democrat Party
03 Jan 2017
by Ajamu Baraka White “radicals” and Black “nationalists” join with corporate Democrats and “latte” liberals” to mouth nonsense about Russians. Clinton Democrats attack Trump from the right -- and sweep know-nothings of all stripes along with them. “Collaboration from the left with the new…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Locating Fascism on the Home Map
04 Jan 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford In decadence and decline, the U,S. has produced two strong strains of fascism that now vie for supremacy. The First Black President, now outgoing, represents the “cosmopolitan, global obsessed” variety of fascist. Donald Trump hails from an older fascist strain, “…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
1st 100 Daze
03 Jan 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner The Trumpacolypse is indeed a new day, notes our poet in residence, but it's the same old era.
Norman Richmond
The Untold Story of the Black Radical Tradition in Canada
11 Jan 2017
by Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali The author is a veteran of the Black political struggle on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border, having emigrated to Canada in the Sixties. He points out the similarities -- and differences – in Black radical politics in the two countries. For example, early…
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Journalism and Pornography: Real Crime is Always Organized
11 Jan 2017
by Dr. T.P. Wilkinson Douglas Valentine latest study of the CIA shows him to be “an excellent history teacher” – which is high praise from the reviewer, an excellent teacher, himself. The CIA is a banditry on a huge scale, “invented not simply as an advisory and coordinating instrument for spying…
Mark P. Fancher
The New Black Maroons to America: “We Quit!”
11 Jan 2017
by Mark P. Fancher Just as slave runaways made common cause with Native Americans in resistance to white settlers, U.S. Blacks should reciprocate the solidarity offered by Cuba, Venezuela and Palestinians, as well as providing whatever assistance is possible to progressive and revolutionary forces…
Cornel West
Pity the Sad Legacy of Barack Obama
11 Jan 2017
by Cornel West One of the few Black public intellectuals to break with the First Black President early on, Dr. Cornel West notes that “those Obama cheerleaders who refused to make him accountable bear some responsibility” for the impending Age of Trump. Obama ignored pleas to “break with Wall…
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Black Awakening, Class Rebellion
11 Jan 2017
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and George Ciccariello-Maher “The Black movement has been and will continue to be the foundation for the emergence of other liberation movements” in the U.S., says Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, whose Black Awakening in Obama’s America has been described as “the most important…