| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Trump and America are White Supremacist
20 Sep 2017
“The system allows every white person to be a supremacist as they carry out their daily lives.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Trump’s “Sovereignty” is Lawlessness (So was Obama’s)
21 Sep 2017
“Regime change is the rule in U.S. foreign policy practice.” Donald Trump’s tragicomic performance at this week’s opening of the United Nations General Assembly caused the U.S. foreign policy establishment to cringe in embarrassment, as the ultra-provincial and unabashedly white supremacist real…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Irma (and the 8 questions)
21 Sep 2017
My Sister-in-law, the Artist, propped her last painting up, as high as she could reach… My Mother-in-law, the Lion, placed, important papers in plastic containers; removed lox from the refrigerator, schmeared pumpernickel faces; bagged them for she and her Nosh-keteers.
Carlos Aznárez
In Venezuela, the Military Stands with the People
27 Sep 2017
“Chávez created this philosophy, which is anti-imperialist and also humanist.” Attendees to the Second Anti-imperialist Forum in Defense of the Motherland, held in Caracas, were able to see an unusual sight for Latin America. As they entered the Teresa Carreño Theater they were received by hundreds…
Norman Richmond aka Jalali
Islam, Politics and Black Music
27 Sep 2017
Africans on the Continent and in the Diaspora have been attracted to Islam. It was estimated in 2002 that Muslims constitute 48% of the population of Africa, according to Wikipedia. Speaking at a conference in 1990, entitled: Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle, C.
Ken Morgan
Trump’s SOB and the One Percent
27 Sep 2017
“NFL owners dared not go against players, who were outraged at Trump’s placing the SOB label upon them on behalf of the one percenters.” “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘get that son of a bitch off the field right now. He is fired. He’s…
Paul Street
White America Prefers “Good Blacks”: On Morgan Freeman, Colin Kaepernick, and Trump
27 Sep 2017
“The militantly and viciously white president and his fellow white nationalist Amerikaner football fans want the players to be ‘good Blacks,’ the types who just obediently damage themselves while dutifully serving the white majority and their direct white masters.” “Wouldn't you love to see one of…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Black America: The Wealth-less Community
27 Sep 2017
“There is no indication that Black America will ever recover so long as racism and capitalism dictate social relations in the US.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Killing Kaepernick’s Movement
27 Sep 2017
“We must say with a loud voice that we join with Colin Kaepernick in the fight against police brutality.” “A system that perpetually condones the killing of people, without consequence, doesn't need to be revised, it needs to be dismantled!” -- Colin Kaepernick
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
US-backed Dictator Paul Kagame Risks Another Violent Implosion by Tightening his Grip on Rwanda
27 Sep 2017
“Kagame claims to be a champion of gender equality but the only two women who have ever tried to stand against him electorally are behind bars.”