| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Bernie Sanders Can’t Shake His Imperial Piggishness
28 Sep 2017
“Sanders revealed his own swinish predilections in Westminster.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Orange Julius Ceases the UN
29 Sep 2017
Sulphur swept into a world Body like cholera from fecal forces, ‘peacekeepers,’ poisoning Proud Haiti’s waters—killing over 10,000… Trumping the rule of law Sulphur, disguised as an orange piece of Pyrite prancing like a peacock, twerking its ugly red, white and blue ass, swept into a world Body…
D. Amari Jackson
What the Attack on Organized Labor Means for African-Americans
04 Oct 2017
“The public sector is the largest employer of African-Americans.” In an April 2016 document sent from Tracie Sharp to her powerful States Policy Network (SPN) — a right-wing alliance of 66 think tanks across the country and a sister organization to the notorious American Legislative and Exchange…
Edward Rhymes
This Aint About Us: Whites Must Eradicate White Supremacy
04 Oct 2017
“The ‘distraction’ that’s being ignored is White supremacy, the greatest and most enduring obstacle to racial and class solidarity.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Ugandans Resist Museveni’s Bid for Life Presidency
04 Oct 2017
“Shouts and screams filled the chambers.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Unstable Empire: Committee to Investigate Russia Beats the Drums of War
04 Oct 2017
“Trump's reign is the most visible sign of that weakness.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Russiagate Targets Black People
04 Oct 2017
“Every charge leveled against Vladimir Putin is a sinister projection of the American rap sheet.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Puerto Rico: Shock and Awe Exposing Capitalism’s Criminality
04 Oct 2017
Water is life…and even saliva’s in short supply… For drum-tight mouths, sandpaper throats. Yodeling bellies cave in on spines, as evil scents of sewage and death float in, Refashioning an island into a spreadsheet Cell towers, power lines snapped like legos—electricity’s a distant memory—…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Las Vegas Killings, Through the Lens of New Orleans, Detroit and San Juan
05 Oct 2017
“In a society that has historically denied the humanity of people of color, solidarity with other human beings does not come naturally.”
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Las Vegas: How White Rights, Neoliberal Isolation and a Little Incompetence Killed 59 or 60 People This Week
05 Oct 2017
Gun rights in the US are mainly white rights. It’s always been that way, sort of baked into the North American experience. The “well regulated militia” to which the Second Amendment to the US Constitution refers were a creation of colonial North America, as I explained back in July 2008,