| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
10 Examples of How US imperialism Continues to Kill the People and Planet
31 May 2017
by Danny Haiphong The capitalist narrative, aggressively fronted by the Democratic Party in 2016, holds that “conditions in the U.S. were never better.” But all the objective facts say otherwise. “Imperialism's contradictions have been pushed to their natural limit.” By every social, economic and…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Rwanda: Starvation in the Shadow of a Star 
31 May 2017
by Ann Garrison Paul Kagame, the dictator that presides over Rwanda’s minority government, is the darling of the U.S., the former colonial powers, and Israel. Bill Clinton claims “the economic and social gains in Rwanda have been nothing short of astonishing under Kagame.” So, it may surprise his…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama vs. Trump
31 May 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley President Barack Obama sold Saudi Arabia record amounts of weapons, joined its murderous war in Yemen, and interfered in European elections by supporting Angela Merkel in Germany and Emmanuel Macron in France. Yet the corporate media pretends…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black-Hating Negroes and Their Uses: David Clarke at Homeland Security
01 Jun 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Black sheriff from Milwaukee is a cartoon character whose elevation to Homeland Security is intended as an insult to Black people and a sop to the most bigoted elements of Donald Trump’s base. Clarke’s “talent is to cultivate a crude and shameless contempt for…
This Is Hell
The working class is now united: A report on dissent and democracy in Brazil
31 May 2017
Corruption allegations and protests against Brazil's Workers Party and its president Dilma Roussef were widely reported in the US. But since a soft coup ousted the Workers Party and its president a few months ago strikes and protests twice as large are utterly unreported by the US press. Brasil…
The Editors
Good Thing the US Doesn't Interfere in Other Peoples Elections-- Obama Endorses French Bankster for President
01 Jun 2017
Dr. Matthew Quest
Sister Tchaiko Kwayana: An Original Educator of the African World
30 May 2017
by Dr. Matthew Quest Educator and popular historian Sister Tchaiko R. Kwayana (1937-2017) taught in Africa, South America and the US. A forerunner of the Black Power and Black studies movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, she also challenged post-civil rights, post-colonial independence…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
When I Grow Up…
30 May 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Ralph Pointer, husband of the recently deceased peoples lawyer and political prisoner Lynne Stewart is an accomplished freedom fighter in his own right. A respected elder, he is still with us, and BAR's poet in residence tells us a little about him.
Thomas C. Mountain
Fortress Europe: The Rise of Fascism and Racism in the Netherlands
05 Jun 2017
by Thomas C. Mountain Police in a small Dutch town broke up a long-scheduled and totally peaceful gathering of Eritreans from all over Europe, as the event was besieged by Ethiopians pretending to be Eritreans. Meanwhile, “a well known Dutch ‘human rights activist’” was heard on her cell phone “…
The Failure of the Socialist Movement in Nigeria
05 Jun 2017
by Osaze Lanre Nosaze Africa’s most populous nation has lots of parties that call themselves “socialist” or “communist,” but “all of them fail by the crucial criterion of possessing sufficient interventional capacity for sustained and broad-based influence over the agenda, course, pace, and…