| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Lessons, Successes, Failures of the West Virginia Teachers Strike
08 Mar 2018
The 9 day West Virginia school strike was a long time coming, and contains a number of useful, if not new lessons.
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin On de Blak Boozewahzee
08 Mar 2018
Dey cum buck dancin’, ‘bout ebry 2 ta 4 years, Afta dat, is dey ‘bout scarce as Lepercon ears? Is dese spooks ‘bout korrup as de day is long— An’ “don’ wanna be rite, if luvin' monee wrong?” Do Dem Negroz ack lak 1 purse-cent pleazers, Got staks ob col’ cash stuff’d in dey freezurs? Is dey de…
Ken Morgan
Black Women and International Women’s Day
14 Mar 2018
“Alongside Assata and Rosa and Harriet and Sojourner, let’s celebrate Grace Campbell, of the Blood Brotherhood and the Communist Party.” Women’s History Month in the U.S. is rooted in the Socialist and Communist traditions of International Women’s Day, March 8, 1911.
Gregory Duff Morton
Blood on the Land in Brazil
14 Mar 2018
“The crimes appear to follow a simple, grim logic: kill the leaders.” Millions of Brazilians spent the evening of January 24 watching a courtroom on television. Three judges were scheduled to announce a verdict in the corruption case of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the country’s former president. The…
Netfa Freeman
Zimbabwe Open for Business, Code for International Finance Capitalism
14 Mar 2018
“Zimbabwe’s new president offered an open invitation to international capital investment and latecomers for Zimbabwe’s trek down the neoliberal development road.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with John Sibley
14 Mar 2018
“A capitalist does not think that just your existence in-the-world is a contribution.” This week I spoke with author and artist, John Sibley. A Chicago native, Sibley has written two books. His most recent release is a revised version of the title, Being and Homelessness: Notes from an Underground…
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.”