| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Roland Martin: That Hustla Ova There Tryna Sell Us School Privatization
09 Feb 2017
Roland Martin pretends to be a journalist. But what does a guy do when the one percent won't pay for an informed public? Roland is a hustla for hire, and he's found a dependable set of clients. Roland is all about blackening up and selling us the destruction and privatization of public schools,…
This Is Hell
Not My President? How About Not My System?
08 Feb 2017
Not My President? How About Not My System? by our friends at This Is Hell Radio BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon asks whether, when we say "not my president" are we just hollering for Hillary, or maybe Cory Booker? Shouldn't we be saying tht none of them have ever been our president? Trump is…
Kiilu Nyasha
Ida B. Wells-Barnett : Iola, Princess of the Press & Feminist Crusader for Equality and Justiceb
15 Feb 2017
By Kiilu Nyasha Ida B. Wells was the kind of black leader we don't see much of any more. Unlike today's leaders, the heads of nonprofit organizations financed by the self-interested generosity of the one percent, Ida's career was financed by the readers of the black press, from ordinary African…
Thomas C. Mountain
Gambia; A Very African Coup
15 Feb 2017
by Thomas C. Mountain Just another week in neocolonial Africa, where every country’s military is armed, clothed, equipped and trained by the US through AFRICOM. Reports in the western press of a corrupt president refusing to leave office and being ousted to universal acclaim by the joint…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Alternative Facts on 7 Countries’ Terrorists
15 Feb 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner This and every year since the dawn of this country, most terrorist acts in the US have been perpetrated by white Christian males. So how, our poet asks, do we make sense of Trump's attempted travel ban and its effect on terrorism inside the US? Do they…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Welcome (To the United Front Aganist Facism)
15 Feb 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Come as you are, and be ready to build the world we all deserve, invites our poet, to the united front against facism. Wherever you come from, wherever you were this morning or last week, your hand your mind your heart and energies are welcomed in this…
Paul Street
Revolution Beyond Blue Bubbles
15 Feb 2017
by Paul Street BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors Iowa City speech, according to Paul Street, fell short of any class analysis of the Trump victory, how to fight facism, or the road ahead. While the Movement For Black Lives declined to endorse presidential candidates, its vision still does not reach…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Trump's Foreign Policy: Continuity or Break?
15 Feb 2017
by Danny Haiphong Some things do change depending on who and which of the two US ruling parties are in power. US imperialism isn't one of them. The "foreign policies" of both parties are the maintenance and extension of global US hegemony through military, economic, cultural and…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Continued Desecration of Bethesda African Cemetery: The Community Fights Back!
15 Feb 2017
By BAR Editor and Columnist, Dr. Marsha Adebayo In the parts of the US which were once slave country, from New England to Florida to Texas, the burial grounds of African slaves are being uncovered, often by commerical developers intent on building yet another badly needed strip mall. In…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Human Rights Industry Protects Imperialism
15 Feb 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley When so-called Human Rights organizations are financed by the one percent they dependably echo the priorities and prejudices of their influential sponsors. So it is that Amnesty International is an energetic source of war propaganda on…