| Black Agenda Report

Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese
Creating the 21st Century Internet
20 Dec 2017
“Political speech should not only be protected in print and television, but it should also be protected in the digital world, including websites, video, social media and new outlets we cannot yet imagine.”
Vice News
Police Shoot More Than Twice as Many Americans as Previously Understood
20 Dec 2017
“Until now, there has never been a national reckoning of police shootings that includes Americans who are shot by cops and survive.” Police shoot far more people than anyone realized, a VICE News investigation reveals. An exclusive analysis of data from the 50 largest local police departments in…
Cornel West
Ta-Nehisi Coates Is the Neoliberal Face of the Black Freedom Struggle
20 Dec 2017
“The disagreement between Coates and me is clear: his view of black America is narrow and dangerously misleading.” Ta-Nehisi Coates’ We Were Eight Years in Power, a book about Barack Obama’s presidency and the tenacity of white supremacy, has captured the attention of many of us. One crucial…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Alabama and the Duopoly Trap
20 Dec 2017
“The Democrats act as though they have found the magic key to victory because they got lucky in one red state.” The electoral process has changed very little for black people. At this late date in history our highest political expectations still amount to little more than keeping hardcore racists…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison , Helen Epstein
Why Are Ugandan Troops Amassed at the Congo Border Again?
20 Dec 2017
“Rwandan dictator Kagame appears to be pursuing his own agenda in Congo by driving local people out and populating their land with newcomers.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Whoppers of Boss Tweet…
20 Dec 2017
A thief a thug Man in a rug A tweet deceit A lie a cheat— Embellish, embroider: a lying disorder… A myth a fable a bit unstable Flimflam, claptrap bunkum—bull crap! An empty wagon a puffed up dragon… A whopper a fib You peeped from your crib! A sham a fake a major ‘mistake—’ Pathological lying…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The 1% Will Earn the People's Hatred
21 Dec 2017
“The rich prevail in virtually every contest because their political monopoly matches their monopoly on economic power.”
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The Black Political Class and Network Neutrality
21 Dec 2017
Earlier this month, Chicago journalist Curtis Black called the office of Congressman Bobby Rush (D- IL) to ask what the congressman’s position on net neutrality was, now that Donald Trump is president. During his two decades in Congress Rush has taken quite a lot of cash from the bagmen of ATT,…
Julianne Tveten
It’s Time to Nationalize the Internet
03 Jan 2018
“Private network providers prioritize only those they expect to provide a return on investment.” Defying widespread popular objection, on December 14 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal net neutrality. The principle regulates broadband as a utility, thus forbidding cable…
Vijay Prashad
Concentration Camps for African Migrants Blocked from Entering Europe Are Popping Up Across Libya
03 Jan 2018
“The Europeans want to move their southern border from the northern edge of the Mediterranean Sea to the southern rim of the Sahara Desert.”