| Black Agenda Report

by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
if it takes 100 years
06 Dec 2017
I am the North Star— Hope; Never wavering, organizing, burning thorough bars, walls, wire— I am consciousness of all creatures, crystalline water, clean, sweet air, black soil From forgotten reservations I am non-GMO, organic apples, pears, lettuce, tomatoes, spinach Springing from beads of sweat…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Blacks, War and the Phony “Resistance”
07 Dec 2017
“The Democrats are ‘all in’ for the Pentagon, including a majority of the Congressional Black Caucus.”
Harvey Wasserman
Warring Visions of Puerto Rico's Future
13 Dec 2017
“This is an opportunity to make microgrids in Puerto Rico so they can be sustained in different areas.” Warring visions have now erupted over the energy and economic futures of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Will the islands become a cutting-edge green-powered solartopia for the benefit of…
Auditi Guha
New Study Shows Flint Water Affects Baby Weight
13 Dec 2017
“It was a very sharp reduction in birth weight.” Babies born in Flint, Michigan, following the water crisis that started three years ago weighed less than they likely would have if the crisis had never happened, a new study has found.
Morgan Humphrey
The Assassinations, Hyper-Surveillance and Harassment of Blacks is Just Business as Usual for Law Enforcement
13 Dec 2017
“The drug war is the justification to create a police state of black and Latinx communities.” Forty-nine years ago, 21 year-old Fred Hampton, Black Panther Party for Self-Defense state chairman, was drugged and assassinated of by the Chicago Police Department (with the assistance of the FBI). Just…
Democracy Now
Daniel Ellsberg: “Doomsday” is an “Actual War Plan”
13 Dec 2017
“This is the most evil plan that has ever existed. It’s insane.”
Caitlin Johnstone
The Entire Russian Hacking Narrative Is Invalidated In This Single Assange Tweet
13 Dec 2017
“This cannot possibly be an actual investigation into an actual allegation.” “Neither Robert Mueller's team nor the US Senate Intelligence Committee has bothered to contact WikiLeaks or me, in any manner, ever.” -- @Julian Assange, Twitter, September 20, 2017
Mark P. Fancher
Christmas and the Contradictions of Capitalists Who Celebrate It
13 Dec 2017
“Oppressed communities around the world need to divorce themselves from empires.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Sexual Assault Scandals, Russia-baiting, and the Crumbling Empire
13 Dec 2017
“The discourse on sexual assault has been kept a bourgeois affair.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: When Police Kill White People
13 Dec 2017
“Are whites so committed to the modern day slave patrol that they will allow no one justice, even those who look like them?”