| Black Agenda Report

Ida Harris
We Get It. It’s Harvey Weinstein’s News Cycle. But What About Our Black Girls?
15 Nov 2017
“Apparently, the victimization of young black girls is not newsworthy enough for the mass media or the court of public opinion to be engrossed or enraged at Weinstein levels.” I stopped watching broadcast news five years ago, after a sex crime was reported in close proximity to where I live. The…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Burundi Defies the Imperial Criminal Court, an Interview with John Philpot
15 Nov 2017
“All the international criminal courts became propaganda tools for perpetuating Western domination of Africa by demonizing any African leaders who dare to raise an independent head or take steps toward resource sovereignty.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
US politics Even More Conservative Under Trump, But Not for the Reasons Expected
15 Nov 2017
“At no other time has there been more of a need to organize a political program independent of the two party system.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Defending RT
15 Nov 2017
“The 21st century McCarthyite campaign has succeeded in convincing otherwise intelligent people that Russia is an enemy.” The Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) was established in 1938 as a means of fighting Nazi influence in the United States. The Russian funded cable network RT was recently…
Dr. Matthew Quest
What E. Franklin Frazier’s Black Bourgeoisie Says To Us 60 Years Later, Part 2
15 Nov 2017
“...the Black struggle for status and recognition on capitalist terms will produce more absurdity, brutality, and deformities...”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Democrats Used to Love Russian Oligarchs
16 Nov 2017
“It is the Democrats that have been in 'collusion' with Russian oligarchs since the birth of that class out of the rubble of the Soviet collapse.”
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe Sidelined by Military Coup
17 Nov 2017
Amid some brief gunfire and few explosions military spokespeople in Zimbabwe declared Wednesday that President Robert Mugabe and his wife were safely in custody while, they said, a layer of criminals around the president were hunted down and apprehended. They found $10 million US dollars stashed in…
Linn Washington Jr
Forced Anthem Adherence Antithetical to Justice
22 Nov 2017
“American military services spent $53 million on marketing and advertising contracts with sports teams between 2012 and 2015.” This history-making black Major League Baseball player called out race prejudice in all sectors of American society including prejudice practiced by U.S. presidents,…
Mark Weisbrot
Trump Doubles Down on Sanctions and Regime Change for Venezuela
22 Nov 2017
“With encouragement from Florida Senator Marco Rubio and other Republicans, Trump has been trying to help topple the elected government of Venezuela.”
Flint Taylor
Lessons on the Anniversary of the Greensboro Massacre
22 Nov 2017
“The city quickly issued a report absolving its police department of any blame.”