| Black Agenda Report

by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Rouge State
28 Mar 2018
Nuclear bully’s roaring for war Thru the mouth of its dinosaur— At war ever since its bloody birth Now, threatening the entire earth! Rouge State— warlike deadweight you annihilate Subjugate Expropriate— you devastate Rouge State— Land of the inmate you incarcerate Infiltrate Assassinate— you…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Building Movement Politics Means Fighting Democrats
29 Mar 2018
“In the absence of a renewed, grassroots street offensive against the armed occupation of Black communities, there will be no relief from the daily slaughter.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Marching for the Democrats: Another Farce on Washington?
29 Mar 2018
“The opportunism of the Democrats made these students and their pain easy targets.” “They called in [Roy] Wilkins; they called in [A. Philip] Randolph; they called in these national Negro leaders that you respect and told them, ‘Call it off.’ Kennedy said, ‘Look, you all are letting this thing go…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Gun Debate A Narrow Opportunity For Democrats, A Wide One For the Left
29 Mar 2018
Last weekend the March For Our Lives mobilized half a million on the DC mall and a few hundred thousand more combined in dozens of cities across the US. Lyft donated a million free rides to marchers, and a long list of celebrity endorsers wrote checks and cut spots. Broadcast and cable media gave…
Zwelinzima Vavi , Ncedisa Mpemnyama
Two Salutes to Winnie Mandela
04 Apr 2018
South African Federation of Trade Unions mourns passing of Comrade Winnie Mandela by Zwelinzima Vavi “She will always be an inspiration for future generator of women revolutionaries.” On April 2, Winnie Mandela, the South African freedom fighter in the anti-apartheid struggle and the ‘Mother’ of…
Jonathan Cook
If This Happened in Alabama There Would Be Uproar: In Israel, it’s the Norm
04 Apr 2018
“Half of Israeli Jews confess that they do not want ‘Arabs’ as neighbors.” How would you describe a white town in a southern state in the United States that froze the tender for plots of land in a new neighborhood because it risked allowing blacks to move in? As racist? What would you think of the…
Minister Faust
Evidence of Violent Extremism of Little Interest When Killer Is White
04 Apr 2018
“In the upside-down world of corporate media, the race of the terrorist, and the races of the people he’s murdered, seem to matter more than the actions committed.” Remember that Muslim mass murderer who belonged to an Islamic home-madrassa called INTIFADA, where knife-wielding Shari’a survivalists…
Julian Vigo
A Brief History of Neo-Colonial Rape and the “Freak Shows” of Black Women’s Bodies
04 Apr 2018
“These sites of ‘disaster’ are created by the very ‘civilized’ men who then turn around and exploit the victims of their imposed ‘civilization.’”
Paul Street
Against False Conflation: JFK, MLK, and the Triple Evils
04 Apr 2018
“The Kennedy brothers approved racist FBI director J. Edgar Hoover’s regular and relentless police state surveillance, smearing and infiltration of the movement, including Dr. King.” Two Murders I do not pretend to know the full stories behind the assassinations or executions of either John F.…
Anne Garland Mahler
Charlottesville Mural by Obama “Hope” Poster Artist Causes Controversy
04 Apr 2018
“The artist Shepard Fairey has a history of appropriating images from activist-artists of color and selling them for a profit, without ever acknowledging the originals.”