| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Elías Gonzalez
28 Feb 2018
“W.E.B. Du Bois. He really gave us the language; James Baldwin gave us the style.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Why the Shooting Will Continue
28 Feb 2018
“All the sound and fury about gun control is useless because this society demands that the slave patrol never disband.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Great, Bloody Black Dispersal from the Cities
01 Mar 2018
“The grand plan is to reverse the demography of the Seventies by forcing Blacks out of the central cities and into suburbs and small towns, rendering Black people incapable of ever again launching a national movement headquartered in the urban centers.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
ASS
01 Mar 2018
Is this an AR-15 gun story? Or, a repeating rifle history: Winchester Model 1873, “the gun you could load on Sunday and shoot all week long, “The Gun that Won the West?”
Rachel Wolkenstein
New Legal Action is a Path to Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Freedom, But a Re-ignited International Mobilization is Critical for Victory
07 Mar 2018
“It will take international mobilization of the masses, centrally labor and its allies, minorities, immigrants and youth to turn the tide and win Mumia’s freedom.”
Chris Hedges
Legalizing Tyranny
07 Mar 2018
“The carcel state is a subculture unto itself, with an $81 billion budget and tremendous political clout.”
Lucas Koerner
Will the Venezuelan Masses Still Stand with Maduro at Election Time?
07 Mar 2018
“The people know that it’s easier to deepen a revolution while being in government than to turn it over to a right-wing that has no respect for life.”
Mary F. Corey
The Funke Wisdom of Chocolate Cities
07 Mar 2018
“The West becomes West South; the North is Up South; the Middle West is Mid South.”
Oliver Milman
Environmental racism case: EPA rejects Alabama town's claim over toxic landfill
07 Mar 2018
“Mere compliance with environmental permits should not negate civil rights concerns.” The US Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed a civil rights case brought by residents of a small, overwhelmingly African American town in Alabama who have spent much of the past decade battling a toxic…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Daniel Patrick Welch
07 Mar 2018
“Americans—even ‘woke’ ones—don’t know jack about their own history: the violence, the terror on behalf of white supremacy is simply a bottomless pit.”