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David Dayen
Puerto Rico Homeowners Brace for Another Disaster: Foreclosures
03 Jan 2018
“Maybe they believe the land is worth more than keeping people in the homes.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison , Boniface Musavuli
Congolese President Attacks Peaceful New Year’s Eve Protestors
03 Jan 2018
“While the rest of the world celebrates their hopes for the New Year, the Congolese suffer repression and death.”
3 Little Words (For 2 EGs)
03 Jan 2018
One to three three on one Life hanging on tatted arms of a windpipe- crushing Nazi thug 3 little words 12 letters 11 times Not artful air escaping sides of a saxophonist’s mouth Song For Her Father— Fire-breathing, bullhorn Blues shouter; Drum major Marching, meeting, texting, tweeting, writing:…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Will Black Agenda Report Be Here Next New Year? That's Up To Our Readers...
04 Jan 2018
Glen Ford, Margaret Kimberley and I left Black Commentator to start Black Agenda Report in 2006. It’s 2018 and we’re still here. We want to be here at the start of 2019 too. We opposed the permanent wars of US empire back when the president was a Republican named Bush. Unlike most…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Validity and Usefulness of the Term “Black Misleadership Class”
04 Jan 2018
“It is both an actual and aspirational class, which ultimately sees its interests as tied to those of U.S. imperialism and its ruling circles.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Help Save BAR from Google, Trump, the Democrats and Their Spies
04 Jan 2018
“The whole of the ruling class is united in the campaign to squeeze the Left out of the web.”
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…