| Black Agenda Report

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.”
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.”