| Black Agenda Report

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…
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…