| Black Agenda Report

by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin On de Blak Boozewahzee
10 Jan 2018
Dey cum buck dancin’, ‘bout ebry 2 ta 4 years, Afta dat, is dey ‘bout scarce as Lepercon ears? Is dese spooks ‘bout korrup as de day is long— An’ “don’ wanna be rite, if luvin' monee wrong?” Do Dem Negroz ack lak 1 purse-cent pleazurs, Wit staks ob col’ cash stuff’d in dey freezurs?
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Is Anyone On the Side of the Congolese Now? Ann Garrison speaks to Jean-Claude Maswana
10 Jan 2018
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the heart of Black Africa. Millions of Congolese have been murdered, massacred, enslaved, robbed of their resources, and driven from their homes since the Berlin Conference gave the "Congo Free State" to Belgium's King Leopold II as his personal…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Donkey In A Hole: Don't Expect Democrats To Change Much in 2018
10 Jan 2018
The 2018 midterm elections are fast approaching. Mainstream observers have predicted that Trump’s lack of popularity gives the Democratic Party an opportunity to regain a majority in the Senate and Congress. Doug Jones’ Senate victory in historically Republican Alabama has given rise to such…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Trump Love Endures
10 Jan 2018
The recently published book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House is an inside account of the Donald Trump campaign and presidency. One of its more stunning revelations confirms what informed people said about Donald Trump in 2016. He did not think he would win, indeed he had not intended to…
Kali Akuno , Gyasi Williams
Up Against the Fabrication Divide
10 Jan 2018
The Third Digital Revolution[1], a revolution in cyber-physical integration and personal fabrication, is changing the world, and changing humanity, culturally and physically, in the process. The Third Digital Revolution is marked by technological and knowledge breakthroughs that build on the…
Rachael Boothroyd Rojas
Venezuelan Chavistas Begin Nation-Wide Debate on Future Homeland Plan
11 Jan 2018
Bogota, January 8, 2018 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuelans began to hold nation-wide community meetings last Saturday to discuss the creation of a new Homeland Plan ahead of this year’s presidential elections. The plan will define the Maduro government’s policies for 2019-2025 should it win…
Rebecca Vilkomerson , The Dawn News
Israel Bans Entry to 25 Organizations Connected with the BDS Movement
11 Jan 2018
On Sunday January 8, Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs released a list of 20 international organizations whose members will be prohibited from entering the country because of their support of the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions Movement -BDS- against Israel. This announcement comes after an…
Jake Johnston
UN-Backed Police Massacred Haitians With Impunity
17 Jan 2018
“When the police finally left the campus, around 11 a.m., nine civilians lay dead in the courtyard — five of whom had been shot in the head.” At 5 o'clock on the morning of November 13, more than 200 Haitian police officers raided the Grand Ravine area of Port-au-Prince. There was a series of loud…
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Settler Colonialism and the Second Amendment
17 Jan 2018
“The violent appropriation of Native land by white settlers was seen as an individual right in the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, second only to freedom of speech.”
Daniel Zamora
The Case Against a Basic Income
17 Jan 2018
“If the payment isn’t high enough to let people to refuse work, UBI might push wages down and create more “bullshit jobs.” In her campaign memoir What Happened, Hillary Clinton wrote that the idea of a universal basic income (UBI) for all Americans “fascinated” her. Reflecting on her wholly…