| Black Agenda Report

David Sheen
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld boosts Israel’s “shoot to kill” fantasy tours
01 Feb 2018
Jerry Seinfeld drew criticism earlier this month when it emerged that while in Israel to perform in Tel Aviv, the famous comedian visited an air force base and took his family to a tourist attraction in the occupied West Bank for ideological and military instruction. Caliber 3, the Israeli firm…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
How Donald Trump Rode in on “Dark Money”
01 Feb 2018
“It wasn’t the Russians that brought us Trump, but the usual suspects: private equity and hedge funds bandits.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda and the War on Terror A Book Review
01 Feb 2018
Helen Epstein’s new book Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda and the War on Terror is dense with detailed and fascinating accounts of events in Ugandan history and politics and those of neighboring nations. I’m familiar with much of it, but there’s also much I hadn’t known, some I disagree with, and…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Stop the Immigration Police State
01 Feb 2018
Lukasz Niec is a Polish born green card holder and Wisconsin physician. He is now held in immigration detention because of juvenile crimes and adult interactions with police which didn’t result in convictions. Despite the minor nature of his offenses he is deportable. But it must be pointed out…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Looking Down That Deep Hole: Parasitic Intersectionality and Toxic Afro-Pessimism, Part 2 of 3
01 Feb 2018
When I took a swipe at intersectionality last week, declaring that it was a hole, that afro-pessimism was a shovel and it was high time to stop digging, some friends and comrades were displeased. As far as they were concerned, questioning intersectionality amounted to a frontal attack on the place…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Liberal Totalitarianism and the Trump Diversion
04 Feb 2018
The ongoing political circus in the capital of the world’s most powerful empire opens almost daily with a new act each day showcasing an even more bizarre and more revealing display of the internal rot of a culture and a political system in decline.
Solomon Comissiong
Many Americans' Actions Support Trump's Shit-Hole Countries Slur
07 Feb 2018
“Barack Obama bombed those majority Muslim nations, with no regard for human life, and his supporters didn't say a peep.”
Ken Morgan
Memphis Sanitation Workers Remembered
07 Feb 2018
“The workers represented and led the black public striving for decent employment, paying jobs, decent living conditions, quality public schools and union recognition.” The date February 1, 1968, marked the 50th anniversary of the start of the historic 1968 Memphis “I Am A Man” strike and black…
Patrick Bond
New Evidence of Africa’s Systematic Looting, From an Increasingly Schizophrenic World Bank
07 Feb 2018
“’Sub-Saharan Africa loses roughly $100 billion of ANS annually because it is “the only region with periods of negative levels’ of gross national income.” A brand new World Bank report, The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018, offers evidence of how much poorer Africa is becoming thanks to rampant…
Jeff Schuhrke
Chicago Teachers Union and Charter School Teachers Have Joined Forces
07 Feb 2018
“Leaders of both union locals say they don’t have a problem with charter schools per se, but rather they oppose the proliferation of the charter system of management.” With the approval of a historic union merger, teachers in Chicago are positioning themselves to mount a greater challenge to…