| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Nancy Pelosi Sends Democrats Over a Cliff
28 Jun 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Democrats can’t serve their Black and working class base because they get their money from the 1%. “Their allegiance to global elites prevents them from making even small changes.” Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi brags that no change is…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Trump Competes With Hillary in U.S. War of Lies and Terror Against Syria
28 Jun 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Donald Trump is out to prove that he is as bloodthirsty as Hillary Clinton and better than anyone at brinksmanship. Has he gone “play-crazy,” or is it the real thing? “By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The Tide Is Turning on Single Payer, With or Without Bernie Sanders
29 Jun 2017
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Obamacare, was such a huge favor to the insurance companies that Republicans can’t outdo it, they can only make it a little meaner. Liz Warren is telling Democrats that Medicare For All is the issue to campaign on for 2018. But where is Bernie Sanders? Why hasn…
The Real News Network
Only Community Control Will Stop Police from Killing with Impunity
29 Jun 2017
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Look Away, Look Away....
28 Jun 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner For us living in the US, our poet reminds us, imperial atrocities are at worst collateral damage, and most often invisible. Only when they come into sight need we look away.... look away...
Norman Richmond
Justin Trudeau is Not a Friend of all God’s Children
04 Jul 2017
by Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali The youthful leader of Canada claims to be many things, including a feminist and friend of all the country’s various ethnicities. However, Canada has a poor history of friendly relations with African peoples. “Canada has played a role in the violence the Congo,…
The Canadian Who Helped Conquer Congo for the Belgian King
04 Jul 2017
by Yves Engler Celebrated Canadian soldier William Grant Stairs helped King Leopold II of Belgium conquer the resource-rich Katanga region of the Congo. Known for his heartless brutality, Stairs headed a heavily armed mission that swelled to 2,000. The goal of the expedition was to extend Leopold’s…
Script For Plans To Destroy Bolivarian Revolution Was Written In Washington
04 Jul 2017
by Sergio Alejandro Gómez Most of the “news” we get in the U.S. about Venezuela is fake, the result of the weaponized selectivity of the international corporate press. “The same day that three million people marched in Caracas to show support for [President] Nicolás Maduro, much less attended…
W. E. B. Du Bois's Revolutions
04 Jul 2017
by Phillip Luke Sinitiere W.E.B. Du Bois did not formally join the Communist Party until 1961, at age 93, but he had long proposed “meaningful socialist solutions to tackle contemporary, systemic problems of racial terror and economic disaster.” The author maintains that Du Bois, a founding Pan-…
Would Slavery Have Ended Sooner if the British Had Defeated the Colonists’ Bid for Independence?
04 Jul 2017
by Keith Brooks By the evidence of their actions, most Blacks wanted the British to defeat their white settler masters. Most Native Americans, too. The British had prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian mountains, and showed some signs of moving towards abolition of slavery. “While 5000…