| Black Agenda Report

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.”
Ken Morgan
Revisiting Black Nationalism and the National Question
24 Jan 2018
“Economic disparities, police brutality, inequalities et al. go together with capitalism.” I was privileged to learn from and work with Harry Haywood. Most if not all readers of the Black Agenda Report know his legacy and history in the black struggle. If not, please do check him out.
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Women’s March on the Pentagon to Confront the Bipartisan War Machine? An Interview with Cindy Sheehan
24 Jan 2018
“Since the Dems took control of the House in 2007, the antiwar movement has been pitiful.” AG: Cindy Sheehan, I understand that you’ve started organizing a Women’s March on the Pentagon. Why?
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Centrist Politics Are Ruling Class Politics, not Martin Luther King’s
24 Jan 2018
“Democrats have been a reliable source of fake progressivism and real imperial policy.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Robert Mercer Rules
24 Jan 2018
“An ultra-rich right winger put Trump in the White House and now controls the country’s political agenda.”