| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
In CIA We Trust
02 Nov 2017
“The imperial populace is immensely forgiving of crimes against weaker peoples.”
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Democratic Party Affiliation in Mississippi “A Compromise Made In Error” Says Cooperation Jackson’s Kali Akuno.
02 Nov 2017
It was natural enough. To be white in Mississippi is to be a Republican, to be black is to be a Democrat. So when the leaders of the Malcolm X Grassroots Organization, heir to organizational efforts in Jackson Mississippi since the early 1970s considered running candidates for local office they did…
Peta Lindsay
Black Bolsheviks and White Lies: Reflections on the Black Radical Tradition
08 Nov 2017
“American blacks needed no outsiders to awaken their sense of the tremendous contradiction between America's professed beliefs and its actual practices.”
Prince Shakur
Youth Incarceration in the United States, Explained
08 Nov 2017
“First Lady Hillary Clinton referred to certain youths as ‘super-predators.’”
Mela Ghebremedhin
The Eritrea “Massacre” That Never Happened
08 Nov 2017
“The entire incident lasted several minutes, with no casualties or injuries.”
Ronnie Kasrils , Marcus Barnett
Sabotaging Apartheid
08 Nov 2017
“We got into what I call a Faustian pact with big business from Mandela onwards.” Ronnie Kasrils has led a titanic political life. Growing up in a Jewish family in Johannesburg in the middle of the twentieth century, he was radicalized by apartheid and joined the South African Communist Party (SACP…
Dan Glazebrook
Recolonization of Africa by Endless War
08 Nov 2017
“Washington is running a gruesome protection racket in Africa, simultaneously creating the conditions for armed groups to thrive while offering protection against them.” Six years ago, on October 20th, 2011, Muammar Gaddafi was murdered, joining a long list of African revolutionaries martyred by…
Mark P. Fancher
Buffalo Soldiers Go To Africa
08 Nov 2017
“The last thing any African in the US wants or needs is the prospect of death in pursuit of a corporate agenda in Africa.” In black barbershops across the U.S. where old school brothers talk trash about sports and beg young bloods to either comb or shave the tops of their nappy fades, there may be…
Ashley Farmer
Black Women Radicals of the Past Offer the Best Hope for Our Future
08 Nov 2017
“In the latter half of the 20th century, black women theorists offered critical insight into how we might develop emancipatory strategies.”
James Hill, Jr.
Kneeling and the (Re)Signification of the Black Fantastic
08 Nov 2017
“By utilizing their seismic platform as well as the medium of mass communication, the performative act of kneeling during the anthem unsettles the naturalized mythos of the racial state.” On September 1, 2016, Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid took a knee during the national anthem before an…