| Black Agenda Report

by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
How Long?
25 Apr 2018
How long? Too long… How long? Too long… How long? Too long… How long? Too long… have massacres become ‘clashes’ on tongues of talking heads and pens of scribblers How long? Too long… How long? Too long… How long? Too long… How long? Too long… have ‘other’ peoples’ children become bomb-test babies,…
Zachariah Wilkerson
Seven Things You Should Know Before Giving to Arkansas Baptist College
25 Apr 2018
Howard University isn't the only HBCU scandal afoot. There's Little Rock's Arkansas Baptist College where a nexus of well-connected and corrupt cronies raise money in the school's name while ABC falls deeper and deeper into debt. Attallah Nasir, in two previous investigative reports, documented a…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Russiagate Shows the Democrats’ True Corporate, Warmongering Colors
26 Apr 2018
“The Democratic Party is seeking to ride Russiagate into the far sunsets with its suit against Trump, the Russians and Wikileaks.”
Dennis Webster
Rural Workers Mobilized in South African General Strike
01 May 2018
“’Land and the hunger for land’ is uniting rural and urban workers.” Wednesday’s national general strike was not restricted to South Africa’s urban centers. Many farm workers throughout the Western Cape also downed their tools. These included over 3,000 members of the Commercial Stevedoring and…
Tortilla Con Sal
Nicaragua: Next in Line for Regime Change?
01 May 2018
“The right-wing Citizens for Liberty and Sandinista Renewal Movement political organizations have led the violent protests.”
Jessica Glenza
Flint Crisis, Four Years On: What Little Trust Is Left Continues to Wash Away
01 May 2018
“Flint is a place a city where many people are unlikely to ever drink another drop of tap water as long as they live.” LeeAnne Walters was one of the activists who brought Flint’s brown, lead-laden water to the world’s attention, thrusting plastic bottles of dingy liquid into camera lenses and the…
Evelyn M. Simien
A Powerful Memorial to the Men and Women Victims of Lynching Opens in Alabama
01 May 2018
“Close to 200 women were murdered by lynch mobs in the American South.” A memorial to victims of lynching in the U.S. opened in Alabama on April 26, 2018.
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Cory Booker Blames Black America for Trump, But Only Has Himself to Blame
01 May 2018
“Democrats like Booker have blamed everyone but themselves for Trump’s victory.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Former Black Panther Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald Seeks Parole after 49 Years Behind Bars
01 May 2018
“People who were not members of the Black Panther Party or who were not political are released,” On April 26, former Black Panther Herman Bell was released from prison in New York State after 45 years. That leaves at least 10 surviving members of the Black Panther Party behind bars, including…
Black Alliance For Peace
Re-Centering Anti-War and Anti-Imperialism as Working-Class Issues on May 1st
02 May 2018
“We will never support U.S. imperialism in any of its adventures.” May 1stis recognized as International Workers’ Day throughout the world except in the most bourgeois of bourgeois nations -- the United States. Yet, even though the capitalist oligarchy has tried to erase the day from the awareness…