| Black Agenda Report

Charo Mina-Rojas
Afro-Colombia Women Demand Rights and Demilitarization
01 Nov 2017
”The women, peace and security agenda, if implemented and financially resourced, can be the pathway to peace in my country and around the world.”
Devyn Springer
Does the Western Left Have an African Problem?
01 Nov 2017
“Few on the broader US left can name more than a handful of African revolutionaries.”
Nicholas Grant
African Americans, Apartheid and the Cold War
01 Nov 2017
“Anticommunism provided a global language that could be used to silence anti-racist organizing.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Huey Newton's Lessons for World Revolution in Our Times
01 Nov 2017
“Huey used the framework of dialectical materialism, which gave him the understanding that all development is a struggle between contradictions.” BAR contributor Danny Haiphong delivered the following remarks to a day-long conference on “Huey P. Newton: Our Struggle for Self-Determination and World…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Burundi Exits the ICC: an interview with David Paul Jacobs
01 Nov 2017
Last year the African Union resisted Western pressure to intervene militarily in Burundi. On October 26, Burundi officially completed its withdrawal from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) without being indicted. The next day the Non-Aligned Movement of 120 member nations…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Putin, Trump and Manafort
01 Nov 2017
“Anyone and anything connected to Russia gets the double standard treatment and is targeted for attack.” The American propaganda campaign being waged against the Russian Federation and its president Vladimir Putin has reached a stage of perverse perfection. It is virtually impossible to put forth a…
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.’”