| Black Agenda Report

Todd Steven Burroughs
Inside Negro Pan-African Intellectual Kingdoms of Shifting Sands
11 Apr 2018
“Pan-Africans appeared on the same pages as Communists.” Race News: Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century Fred Carroll. University of Illinois Press, 278 pp., $27.95.
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad
Racial Divide Snapshot: Single Black Women Wealth, $200 – White Women, $15,640
11 Apr 2018
“While women of all races and ethnicities have higher educational levels and suffer lower pay than men overall, their socio-economic status is much closer to men within their racial or ethnic group than with women across racial or ethnic groups.”
Ken Morgan
Low Black Employment Rates and Tariffs Not the Answer
11 Apr 2018
“Capitalism is the problem, not less or more tariffs.” The Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated that the black unemployment reached record lows in January at 6.9%. For whites, it was 3.7%. Currently, the Black rate is still hovering near 7.7%. President Trump quickly took credit for its drop…
Abayomi Azikiwe
Ghana Opposition Against AFRICOM Deal
11 Apr 2018
“There is little discrepancy in the 2018 agreement ratified in Parliament and those signed under regimes headed by ex-President Jerry John Rawlings and Hannah Tetteh.” A leader of the second largest political party in the West African state of Ghana, the Deputy Secretary General of the National…
Dr. Kweli Nzito
Gangster “Democracies”
11 Apr 2018
“It is African involuntary aid that continues to keep the economies of many former European colonies afloat.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Demand the United States Withdraw Its Forces From Syria and Respect International Law
11 Apr 2018
“The Black Alliance for Peace says the only institution with the right and power to protect the peace and resolve international conflict is the United Nations.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
The Crime That Turned Central Africa Into a Vast Killing Ground
11 Apr 2018
“Kagame in fact triggered the massacres and has ever since blackmailed the rest of the world over its failure to stop them—even though he himself threatened to fire on UN troops if they intervened.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Democratic “Deep State” Takeover and the Moribund State of American Politics
11 Apr 2018
“Democrats make gun violence in America the primary midterm election issue because the passage of single payer healthcare, a scale back of the military budget, or a reduction in poverty are not issues that the Wall Street-owned, CIA Democrats want to touch.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Yaser Murtaja and Marie Colvin
11 Apr 2018
“The corporate media share in the culpability.” Yaser Murtaja was a Palestinian journalist acting in his professional capacity when he was murdered by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). He was covering the second Great Return March in Gaza and was clearly identified as press when an Israeli sniper…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Boss Tweet: Latest Poster Boy for the Warfare State’s Pyramid Scheme
11 Apr 2018
Ocher shadow bearing sculls and crossbones, ruby river draining from pyramid’s base an endless death rattle of bombs and drones Threatening to drown the whole human race with its weaponized Ponzi Scheme plus pomp— Nightmare rebranded, ‘American Dream’ Bad Hombre bubbling from the draining swamp:…