| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Will 2018 be the Year of Left Political Resurgence that 2017 Wasn’t?
17 Jan 2018
“What the anti-Russia madness has done is provide an extralegal basis from which to attack any ideology or organization that the ruling class dislikes.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Why We Must Protect the World from the United States
17 Jan 2018
“For oppressed nations and peoples of the world, the U.S. white supremacist, colonial/capitalist patriarchy is and remains the principle contradiction.” Fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stated the obvious: The United States was the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. He also said…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Oligarch Jeff Bezos
17 Jan 2018
“Republicans and Democrats alike are willing to turn over government coffers to Bezos and his ilk and the rights of the people be damned.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Full Spectrum Arrogance: US Bases Spanning the Globe
17 Jan 2018
“There are 50,000 troops still in Germany, still winning World War II three quarters of a century later.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
2/4 Dance Don’t Cut It
18 Jan 2018
“Pay, or die…” the Death Sentence Big Pharma- Insurance Mob just issued a neighbor; and a Frankenfood experiment’s irritating my gut The water smells swampy some days, like bleach others; Tents grow in night air like multi-colored mushrooms—crazy cancer cells; Another school’s shuttered, its…
Attala Nasir
The Real Scandals behind an HBCU: The Arkansas Baptist College Controversy
18 Jan 2018
The following is an investigative report by a long-time member of the Black community in Little Rock who has close knowledge of the history and corruption of Arkansas Baptist College.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Black Caucus’ “New Class”: Worthless, Warmongering Servants of Empire
18 Jan 2018
“The Democrats have perverted the electoral franchise of the nation’s most progressive constituency to the service of a global war machine and an all-pervasive national security state.”
Angola 3 News
Will California’s Governor Block Parole for Soledad Brother John Clutchette?
24 Jan 2018
“The law has been used to perpetuate an injustice in Mr. Clutchette’s case.” On January 12, 2018, the California Board of Parole Hearings granted parole to an elderly inmate named John Clutchette. However, supporters of parole for Clutchette are concerned that California Governor Jerry Brown will…
Alan Wald
Race and the Logic of Capital
24 Jan 2018
“Solidarity is built less by rhetoric than by “first showing up.”
Jemima Pierre
Haitian Detainees are Captive Capital for Private Prison Corporation
24 Jan 2018
“When they cannot make more money out of us, then they deport us quickly.”