| Black Agenda Report

by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Capitalism’s the problem, not Kaepernick… NFL: Naked Fascist Labor (‘Relations’)
14 Sep 2017
32 mastuhs, versus 3 in the N-word industry fielding cyanide-tongued Toms. 32 money-worshipping medieval men with miniature Hearts—constipated souls: Extorting broken bridge and train towns; Extorting shuttered school, cardboard colonies; Extorting poisoned water protectorates with threats of…
Solomon Comissiong
Donald Trump and the Fraudulent Democratic Party
20 Sep 2017
“The system has to be deconstructed to be reconstructed into something that is actually equitable and democratic.”
Ken Morgan
Police Brutality: No End Under Capitalism
20 Sep 2017
“Hiring more black police officers probably doesn’t offer a direct solution to this problem.” Recently, another cop -- former St. Louis officer, Jason Stockley -- was acquitted for the 2011 first-degree murder of Anthony Lamar Smith. The police video caught most of the incident. It included the…
Alvaro Reyes
Fascists Will Fester Until We Get Rid of Capitalism
20 Sep 2017
Ana Curcio interviews Alvaro Reyes about Charlottesville, white supremacy, and contemporary challenges for politics in the US. Curcio is a militant scholar and coordinator of Commonware.org. Reyes is an author and activist with El Kilombo, in Durham, North Carolina. Ana Cucio: Could you briefly…
All-African People's Revolutionary Party
Nuke You Too! No More Imperialist and Superpower Exceptionalism
20 Sep 2017
“United States leaders threaten North Korea with a first strike.” "A new and vigorous approach to the problem of peace and war is needed. The time has come when the destiny of (mankind) should cease to hang dangerously on the aims and ambitions of Great Powers." Kwame Nkrumah
The Public Archive
Hunger Strikers at California’s Adelanto Detention Center
20 Sep 2017
“The strikers presented a list of demands they wanted delivered to ICE.”
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
Why Claudia Jones Will Always Be More Relevant than Ta-Nehisi Coates
20 Sep 2017
“Coates assumes that all the leftists are white, and all race analysis is liberal.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
The Pentagon’s Human Rights Auxiliary Targets Burundi
20 Sep 2017
“The US and allies are trying to beat the October deadline when Burundi will have made its way out from under the court's imperial jurisdiction.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Why Anti-Trumpism Doesn’t Include Anti-War
20 Sep 2017
“An ideological opening exists for reframing military spending and the war agenda for what it is: An agenda for the protection of the interests of the 1 percent.” Libertarian U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) declared from the Senate floor last week in anticipation of the vote on the National Defense…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Intercept's Attack on the Oppressed is Why I Write
20 Sep 2017
“To conflate the just struggle of oppressed people with white nationalism is merely a variant of white supremacist ideology.”