| Black Agenda Report

Jacob Sugarman
What Students Are Taught About Slavery
07 Feb 2018
“Nearly half of the teachers failed to teach their students that protections for slavery were enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.”
Garrett Epps
The 'Slave Power' Behind Florida's Felon Disenfranchisement
07 Feb 2018
“Of those Americans who have completed all their punishments but still cannot vote, 48 percent live in the Sunshine State.” In November 1865—barely six months after Appomattox, and three weeks before the official ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment—the New York Tribune’s front page bore a…
Greg Godels
Scandalize my Name… New York Review of Books Slimes Paul Robeson
07 Feb 2018
“To fail to acknowledge the fact that Robeson and his work were virtually unknown, were erased by the thought police, underscores Callow’s unfitness to discuss Robeson’s career.”
Martin De Bourmont
Is a Court Case in Texas the First Prosecution of a “Black Identity Extremist”?
07 Feb 2018
“Daniels’s arrest poses the even more troubling possibility that his case could be just the first of many.” Christopher Daniels and his 15-year-old son awoke on Dec. 12, 2017, to heavily armed FBI agents outfitted in bulletproof vests and helmets pouring into the one-bedroom apartment they shared…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Russiagate and the Surveillance Duopoly
07 Feb 2018
“FISA set up a rubber stamp kangaroo court with only a handful of warrants being rejected in the forty year history of this law.” Republican and Democratic Party dueling over Russiagate provides us with a teachable moment. It should teach us to disrespect and discredit the law enforcement system as…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
The FISA Memo Is Not a Big Nothing-Burger; It’s a Whopper with Fries
07 Feb 2018
“The FBI knew full well that the DNC and the Clinton campaign had paid Steele to produce the dossier, but they did not reveal that to the FISC.” Why is the corporate press calling the Nunes FISA memo nothing or just another big nothing-burger? Seems more like a Whopper or a Big Mac with fries.…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
NYT Joins Campaign to Purge the Term, “White Monopoly Capital” in South Africa
08 Feb 2018
“The Times fingered a British p.r. outfit as the culprit that popularized the belief that ‘white monopoly capital’ must be overthrown to complete the unfinished South African revolution.”
Keith “Comrade Malik” Washington
Criminalizing “Panther Love” and the New Wave COINTELPRO Tactics in Texas Prisons
14 Feb 2018
“I represent a new generation of freedom fighters who have learned from the mistakes of our fallen ancestors.”
Illinois Deaths in Custody Project
Making Visible the Lives and Deaths of People in Custody
14 Feb 2018
“Poor people should not be confined in a death machine.” “Those who commit the murders write the reports.” — Ida B. Wells, Lynch Law In All Its Phases, 1893
Kenneth Surin
Extreme Poverty in the US Is a Political Choice of the Powerful
14 Feb 2018
“Americans can expect to live shorter and sicker lives, compared to people living in any other wealthy democracies.” “The American Dream is rapidly becoming the American illusion.”