| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Randi Nord
04 Apr 2018
“Anti-imperialism to me means supporting nations in their struggle against my government's violent and exploitative influence.” This week I spoke with Randi Nord. Nord is a Detroit-based journalist and activist. She is the co-founder of Geopolitics Alert. Her pieces have also appeared in MintPress…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Israeli Meddling and Palestinian Death
04 Apr 2018
“Any politician who questions Israeli policy is at immediate risk of being defeated by a well-funded opponent.” On March 30, 2018 the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) committed cold-blooded murder in Gaza. Thousands of unarmed Palestinians marched peacefully to protest the occupation and declare their…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Victory Over Military Cop Convention
04 Apr 2018
“The best-selling t-shirt at the previous year's expo: a picture of an assault weapon with the caption ‘Black Rifles Matter.’” On March 27, the San Francisco Bay Area’s Stop Urban Shield Coalition claimed victory in its four-year battle to stop Urban Shield, a war games and weapons convention for…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Gunmen
04 Apr 2018
Hm, March 18th my Mothers birthday I heard lead bees stung the young mans Back, severed vertebrae, collapsed his lung, left his arm bits of boneon a ruby red river
Attala Nasir
Corruption, Complacency, Complicity Lead at Arkansas Baptist College
05 Apr 2018
Little Rock's Arkansas Baptist College numbers among its leaders corrupt Clinton cronies, money launderers, possible former FBI informants and others who sell prisoners' blood, grossly mismange school finances, raise money under questionable pretenses and more all in the name of black uplift.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
MLK: A Snap Shot in Time
05 Apr 2018
“There is no reason to believe that Dr. King would have abandoned his pro-peace (and “democratic socialist”) principles if he were alive today.”
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…