| Black Agenda Report

M. Lee Stone
Lynching and Anti-Lynching: Art and Politics in the 1930s
11 Oct 2017
“There were nearly 5,000 persons lynched from 1882 through 1965.” The term “lynching” supposedly originated during the American Revolution with Colonel Charles Lynch, a Virginia justice of the peace. Lynch ordered “extra legal punishment” for British Loyalists, hanging without a trial. From this…
Ken Morgan
Blacks, Las Vegas, and Gun Control
11 Oct 2017
“Black ex-soldiers and others defended their neighborhoods in America’s numerous race wars.” The recent mass murder domestic terrorist attack in Las Vegas rekindled the U.S. bourgeoisie shaped the debate over gun control and Second Amendment Constitutional rights -- the right to bear arms. The 58…
Caleb T. Maupin
“New Energy Vehicles”: Can China Break Big Oil’s Global Order?
11 Oct 2017
“The power of the small clique of western financial oligarchs depends on oil remaining central.”
Bryan K. Bullock
Who’s Hacking Who? Americans, Not Russians, Disenfranchise Millions of Blacks
11 Oct 2017
“The black vote has been ‘hacked’ and ‘interfered’ with for decades by both parties and is clearly under increasing attack.”
Shamus Cooke
Police Unions vs. Black Lives
11 Oct 2017
“Any set of demands regarding police reform should include a strategy to directly confront the police union in order to limit its power and influence.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Defining Independence at the Twilight of Empire
11 Oct 2017
“Movements for self-determination must be judged on the concrete pressure they place to either unite the oppressed or empower the imperialist order.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Ugandans Resist Land Grabbing and US-backed Dictatorship: an Interview with Phil Wilmot
11 Oct 2017
“One man essentially wants to exploit all the wealth of the country for himself.” Eighty-four percent of the population of Uganda are rural subsistence farmers. They are resisting both rampant land grabbing and US ally General Yoweri Museveni’s attempt to rule for life. I spoke to Phil Wilmot, an…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: True Conspiracies
11 Oct 2017
“A distracted and hypnotized public won’t ask questions, make demands, or build movements.” American history has many examples of governmental and corporate plots that deceive, kill, create wars, and ruin lives. United States covert operations destroyed movements domestically and overthrew…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The FBI Targets Black “Ideology”
11 Oct 2017
“It is a catch-all for blanket repression of Black activism of any kind.
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
If I had a hammer…
12 Oct 2017
My Dad drew blueprints, Built cabinets, designed ultra-modern kitchens, offices: Master of tile, electrical, plumbing, painting—imagining, mixing Colors he dreamed up Finish carpenter, cabinetmaker, contractor Hanging doors, ripping two by fours— Bad Hombre never showed up in Beverly Hills, With…