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Norman Richmond
Black August, George Jackson and Marcus Garvey
01 Aug 2017
August is a politically charged month in the Black world: the month Marcus Garvey was born and when Black Panther George Jackson and his younger brother, Jonathan, were killed. George Jackson and Huey Newton considered themselves to be scientific socialists, but both men were once also students of…
Rob Seimetz
Justice and Reparations on the Ballot in St. Petersburg, Florida
02 Aug 2017
The Uhuru Movement is running a serious race for mayor and a city council seat in St. Petersburg, Florida, on a platform of social justice and reparations to the Black community. The Black south side of St. Petersburg “is getting pushed out via gentrification.” The two rich white establishment…
Tasasha Henderson
Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks About Black Lives Matter and Police Violence
02 Aug 2017
A new book of essays by Mumia Abu Jamal sheds light on the historical roots of police violence. “The state will always utilize its ‘law" as a tool of repression, but movements must create and expand the space to raise contradictions.” Huey Newton, says Mumia, “called for deep transformation of…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
US and UK Fund Kagame’s Killing Fields: An Interview with David Himbara
02 Aug 2017
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame will stage sham elections, this week, to keep himself in power for another term. He has already arranged to stay in office until 2034, if he chooses. Those who challenge the vote count often wind up dead, or in prison, like Victoire…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Washington: A One Party State
02 Aug 2017
The two corporate parties agree on almost everything of substance. “The one-party state doesn't negotiate police brutality, mass incarceration, or any other manifestation of white supremacy. Nor does it think twice before enforcing sanctions on Syria or Venezuela.” They can’t change Obamacare,…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Lie of Academic Freedom
02 Aug 2017
Scholars of color have become easy targets for right wing internet trolls and “any whining white person with a gripe.” University campuses claim to be bastions of freedom of speech and inquiry – unless you are of the wrong political persuasion, color or religion. “People who call out white…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Tell Trump, and the Democrats, Too: We Demand Black Community Control of the Police
03 Aug 2017
Donald Trump’s outrageous incitement of police brutality serves the purposes of corporate reformers, who then set the bar of people’s demands even lower. If “anything is better than Trump,” then the people are urged to accept any crumb masquerading as “reform” that is offered. Instead of ‘Power to…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
It's Getting Real – Google Censors the Left. And Us.
03 Aug 2017
Conclusive evidence exists that Google is suppressing public access to socialist and left wing websites, almost certainly including Black Agenda Report. In fact, Black Agenda Report is by all accounts the ONLY black owned, run and oriented left web site so targeted. Not Blavity. Not theRoot, which…
Cuba News Agency
Cuba Has Trained 170 Doctors From the US For Free
08 Aug 2017
by Cuba News Agency
Henning Melber
An Anatomy of the Black South African “Middle Class”
08 Aug 2017
by Henning Melber