| Black Agenda Report

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…
Alemayehu G. Mariam
Ethiopia, the Day After: The Firestorm
18 Oct 2017
“The people of Ethiopia are showing their defiant resistance.” The handwriting is on the wall. It is the same message the courageous young people chanted at the 2016 Irreecha festival before they were cut down by T-TPLF machine guns, “Down, down, woyane!” The rats are abandoning the Ship of State T…
Jason Burke
Secret Trials of Thousands of Boko Haram Suspects to Start in Nigeria
18 Oct 2017
“Many of the detainees had been held in custody for years without access to a lawyer or ever having appeared before a judge.” More than 2,300 suspected Islamist militants are expected to appear in court in Nigeria in an unprecedented series of mass trials that local authorities hope will be seen as…
Michelle Matisons
Relocated Puerto Rican Families Are Florida’s Latest Class War Targets
18 Oct 2017
“Trump’s treatment of Puerto Ricans as “third world class” citizens will also be reflected in the school and housing conditions available to Puerto Ricans arriving in Florida.”
Mark P. Fancher
U.S. Troop Deaths in Niger: AFRICOM’s Chickens Come Home to Roost
18 Oct 2017
“The Trump administration is talking about a potential imminent U.S. military action to hit back.”