| Black Agenda Report

Ken Morgan
The Fight to End Abusive Behavior Towards Black Women
22 Nov 2017
“To bury Black women’s oppression embodied in Black oppression once and for all, we need to transform society.” Sexual assault, domestic violence, and the like represent facets of women’s oppression. Black women get extra doses. Capitalism’s culture continues to connect to dehumanizing women’s…
Dr. Maurice J. Hobson
The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta
22 Nov 2017
“Atlanta was deemed the ‘poster child’ for progress in race relations because of the relationships between the city’s Black upper and middle classes and the white business elite.”
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher, Ph.D.
“Our Agenda”
22 Nov 2017
“Black unbelonging — black Americans as historical outsiders — is at the heart of our Constitution.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Neocolonial Kleptocracy and Clinton Connections
22 Nov 2017
“Rwanda remains the poorest country in East Africa, except for Burundi.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
US War Against Russia Dates Back to the Fear of Soviet Union
22 Nov 2017
“Russia is one of the largest obstacles in the way of US expansionism, next to China -- which should be enough to convince US activists to defend Russia from imperial attack.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Crimes are Revealed Under Trump
22 Nov 2017
“The war against Yemen began in 2015, with a stamp of approval and military assistance from the Obama administration.” Barack Obama was not the lesser evil president. He was always the more effective evil. The ruling classes were in desperate need of a new and attractive face to complete their ugly…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The Ongoing Agony of the Obama-Trump War on the People of Yemen
22 Nov 2017
“The people of Yemen’s voices are unheard, drowned out by the noise of Russia-gate, arguments about the meaning of Trump’s latest tweet, and the latest episode of the TV show ‘Scandal.’” “We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation.” (M.L. King, “Beyond…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Why I Don't Do Kwaanza
22 Nov 2017
I don’t do Kwaanza, I just don’t. I never have, and the very thought of it evokes some difficult memories and feelings for me. It’s not the holiday’s religious trappings or its Afro-syncretic fusion of Jewish menorahs, Swahili words, Kemetic, Christian and other rituals. I understand people do have…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Following Footsteps of the Founding Fathers…
23 Nov 2017
Alchemy of money transforming repulsive, ugly, hideous human forms into Powerful producers, reality TV stars, Super predator presidents, Multimillionaire quarterbacks, Elected officials, political operatives, Oscar-winning actors— boys being boys following footsteps of The Founding Fathers:
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Trump FCC Wants To Remove Caps on Calls From Jails and Prisons, and to Kill Network Neutrality
23 Nov 2017
When it comes to the people’s will, the FCC have never been good listeners. The Trump FCC wants to kill subsidies for poor people to pay phone and internet bills, and remove caps on how much telecoms can charge the families of prisoners to receive phone calls.