| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Canada Out of NATO! Québec City Murders of Muslims Rooted in War on Terror
08 Feb 2017
by Ann Garrison Canadians demonstrated in Ontario, to expressed both their revulsion to the private terror of the man that murdered six Muslims in Quebec City and their opposition to Canada’s complicity in U.S. state terror against the Muslim world. These U.S.-led wars are designed to steal…
Yash Tandon
It’s Time for an African Politics of Resistance and Solidarity
08 Feb 2017
by Yash Tandon The Trump phenomenon points to a civilizational shift; namely, the slow, painful demise of the Western Empire. If this shift breaks down the European Union, dismantles NATO, weakens the Empire’s financial control over the global South, and opens a space for a new moral and political…
Garza, of Movement4BlackLives: Our Cynicism Will Not Build a Movement. Collaboration Will
08 Feb 2017
by Alicia Garza Before she decided to take part in the Women’s March on the nation’s capital, the author was “conflicted” about the project. Like others, she wondered “where were all of these white people while our people are being killed in the streets, jobless, homeless, over incarcerated, under…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Undressed Empire: An Analysis of the First Weeks of the Trump Era
08 Feb 2017
by Danny Haiphong Contradictions abound in the mass protests against Donald Trump’s whirlwind of proclamations. While Trump's executive order banning many Muslims should be categorically rejected, we must also reject “the Democratic and Republican parties for creating the conditions…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Apples Don’t Fall Far from Trees: The Nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court
08 Feb 2017
by EPA Editor and Columnist, Dr. Marsha Adebayo If you think President Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, is a raving right-winger, check out his mother. Ann Gorsuch’s administration of the Reagan era EPA was “marked by sharp budget cuts, in-fighting with career civil…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: "Resist Trump, Resist the Democrats"
08 Feb 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Any “resistance” to Trump that allies itself with Democrats, is futile. The Democrats are “unprincipled scoundrels” who “have no desire to move away from their corporate sugar daddies.” If the same people that now declare themselves foes of…
The Real News Network
The Ford Report: Life Sentences Are Slow Death Behind the Walls
08 Feb 2017
by the Real News Network U.S. incarceration levels remain so high because this country hands down longer sentences than anyplace else in the world. People sentenced to life serve twice as much time behind bars as they did in the 1980s. The Trump administration, not give to the token gestures of…
The Real News Network
How Democrats Paved The Way For Trump-Era School Privatization
08 Feb 2017
Before Trump nominated Betsy DeVos as Sec'y of Education, Democrats savaged public schools with Obama's Race To The Top program.
The Real News Network
Billionaire Opponent of Public Education is Now Sec'y of Education. Get Ready For It.
08 Feb 2017
Trump's new Sec'y of Education is a billionaire who has spent her entire career campaigning against public education and for Christian schools, home schooling and privatization options of all kinds.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
DeVos, Obama, Booker, Trump – All Enemies of Public Education
09 Feb 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Betsy DeVos barely won confirmation as the next secretary of education, so dreadful is the performance of the charter schools she promotes in Michigan. But the educational atrocities of the DeVos schools are inseparable from the larger war against public education…