| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize Awarded to Charles Onana and Phil Taylor
14 Mar 2018
“She is risking her life to challenge the Kagame regime, and any challenge to our own government is up to us.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Talking to North Korea
14 Mar 2018
“Kim’s country may be punished by sanctions but he has a measure of security he would not have had if he had not persevered in his goal.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Waking Up With Wackenhut?
14 Mar 2018
There are lands of bluebirds and fountains— where everyone in their minds is forever free… Turning away, shuttering high-beams: Erehwon, Shangra-La, Psychedelic Shack, Cloud 9, Utopias, where When you wish upon a star and wake up—accessories to mass murder— itty-bitty bodies buried beneath rubble,…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Going Down With the Bad Ship U.S.A.
15 Mar 2018
“All that it can offer to the emerging nations of the world is a bad example and the threat of annihilation.”
Doug Henwood
Is It Time to Critically Interrogate Nonviolence and Nonviolent Direct Action?
15 Mar 2018
Activism. Democracy. Change through nonviolent direct action. These, Doug Henwood points out, have been fetishes for much of the US left for quite some time, especially that portion of the US left that takes its marching orders from corporate funders. Gene Sharp, the founder of the Albert Einstein…
Ellen Brown
The War on the Post Office
21 Mar 2018
“Postal banking can be profitable through economies of scale and the elimination of profit-taking middlemen, as postal banks globally have demonstrated.”
Sven Beckert
Today’s Capitalism Was Born in Slavery
21 Mar 2018
“We must develop a new appreciation for the centrality of slavery, in the United States and elsewhere, in the emergence of modern capitalism.”
Tatyana Hopkins
Black Panther Party Principles Resurrected in Hurricane-Ravaged Puerto Rico
21 Mar 2018
“The Young Lords saw the Black Panthers trying to get justice for Black people, and they knew they needed to do the same thing.” The last thing you would expect to find in the central mountain range of Puerto Rico is the influence of the 1960s Black Panther Party. But there it was. The tenets of…
Jaime A Alves
Marielle Franco’s Assassination: One of Tens of Thousands of Black Murders in Brazil
21 Mar 2018
“Brazil`s terrocratic regime continues producing black dead bodies in astonishing scales without disturbing the normalcy of everyday political life in this country.”
Kweli Nzito
A Tale of Three Apartheids and the Land Conundrums
21 Mar 2018
“White settlers were convinced that the lands they appropriated in the ‘dark continent’ and other lands were theirs by right.”