| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Their System, Our Lives: A Political Obituary in Service of Revolutionary Emancipation
05 Jul 2017
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong The class conflict remains the central contradiction among human beings – a fact that too many “movement” leaders seem eager to forget. As a result, they attempt to shore up “a crumbling imperialist system and the ideas that sustain it.” The longer this system is…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: America’s Embarrassment
05 Jul 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Much of America is embarrassed by Donald Trump’s boorish ways -- as if bad manners and geopolitical ignorance are the worst faults a president can have. Trump is a truly repugnant human being, but he did not attack seven nations (Obama), destroy…
“Color Revolution” Comes Home? Are Americans Also the Victims of “Regime Change”?
04 Jul 2017
by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers The longstanding U.S. practice of staging “color revolutions” against unwanted governments around world has inevitably come home to roost. Donald Trump’s presidency is the target, “not only based on his policies but also through manufactured crises such as…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Ending the “Austerity” that Affords Endless War and Little Else
05 Jul 2017
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison U.S. leftists in search of a leader and political model could do worse than Jeremy Corbyn, the British Labour Party leader who is pulling the party back to its social democratic roots. “Corbyn has spoken out not only for a more egalitarian, communitarian Britain, but…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Poem For Zigi
05 Jul 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner This week's offering from BAR's poet in residence was also published this week at Dissident Voice.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black America is “Pro-Peace,” but Its Politicians Work for the War Party
06 Jul 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Black Alliance for Peace will have to work around or against the Black Misleadership Class. “For these infinitely self-centered creatures, even the Mother Continent is unworthy of basic human empathy, much less solidarity.” The Congressional Black Caucus won’t…
How Paul Robeson Found His Political Voice in the Welsh Valleys
11 Jul 2017
by Jeff Sparrow Paul Robeson, the great artist and activist, began his journey to becoming a global “people’s singer” through his contact with Welsh mining communities. “Throughout the 1930s, the analogy between African Americans and workers in Britain (and especially Wales) helped reorient Robeson…
Motsoko Pheko
Why Africans Have No Land in South Africa
11 Jul 2017
by Motsoko Pheko If South Africa is an independent, decolonized, democratic country under the control of its Black majority, then why is 93% of the land still owned by whites? The author maintains that the real anti-colonial struggle was betrayed, and “became a civil rights movement.” The…
It is Necessary to Unify the Brazilian Black Movement
11 Jul 2017
by Puneet Chadha and Jamile Araújo More than half of Brazil’s population is of African descent, yet concerted action among Afro-Brazilians has often been elusive. Black organizations from across the nation gathered in the city of Salvador to resist the “regressive measures” imposed by the “…
The Cops have been Indicted in the Laquan McDonald Case, But Who Will Protect the Community?
11 Jul 2017
by Jeffery Robinson After an obscenely long wait, three Chicago cops now face charges of lying to cover up an extrajudicial execution of a Black teenager by one of their own. However, this is no time to claim that “the system works.” The indictments hardly touches the culture “that emboldened them…