| Black Agenda Report

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…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison , Chief Charles A. Taku
Judicial Sovereignty: Victoire Ingabire and the African Court
08 Nov 2017
“The Court should intensify the war against the impunity and brutality of African police states and their non-African sponsors.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
A Brief Review of the Philadelphia Conference That Celebrated an Enemy of the US Government
08 Nov 2017
“The conference condemned the many ways in which Temple and other academies of ‘higher education’ fully collaborate with the gentrification, poverty, and oppression experienced by working class and poor Black Americans.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Donna Brazile -- No Honor Among Thieves
08 Nov 2017
“The Democratic Party had its thumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Race, Repression and Russiagate: Defending Radical Black Self-Determination
08 Nov 2017
“Once again, Black opposition is being cast as somehow foreign influenced and, therefore, a security threat that justifies special targeted repression.” It is absurd and an insult to argue that Russian propaganda efforts “deepen political and racial tensions in the United States,” as proposed by…