| Black Agenda Report

Linn Washington Jr
Philadelphia's Top Cop Defends Indefensible Prejudice in Starbucks Arrest Incident
25 Apr 2018
“According to some, being a young black or Latino male is, by definition, probable cause for the belief that criminal activity is afoot.” Philadelphia’s top cop, Richard Ross, an African-American, once again exhibited his blind spot on racial bigotry by police during his defense of a specious…
R. Divya Nair
Reflections on The Pan-Afro-Asiatic Civilizational Complex
25 Apr 2018
“The encroachments of European traders, missionaries, explorers, planters, soldiers, and especially scholars and teachers, represented not civilization but rather, its antithesis.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
“Cruise Missile Left” Complicit in American Escalation Toward World War III
25 Apr 2018
“The cruise missile left has aligned with the Democratic Party and the intelligence agencies against Trump and have dropped any anti-war, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist tendencies in the process.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Windrush and Britain’s Crimes Against Black People
25 Apr 2018
“The Windrush generation their children have the right to live and work in Britain.” “P.M. [Churchill] thinks ‘Keep Britain white’ a good slogan!” – Sir Harold McMillan It was true that the sun never set on the British empire. The voracious appetite for resources and wealth, including human…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Germany’s Refusal to Join the Latest US-Led Missile Strikes on Syria
25 Apr 2018
“The major left party concluded that the US-led missile strikes violated international law.” Germany did not join the US, UK, and France in the latest missile strikes in Syria despite President Trump’s invitation. The next day Germany’s Die Linke, aka the Left Party, released an unequivocal…
by Zoe PC
Black Activists Targeted by the Colombian State
25 Apr 2018
“Many of those detained belong to the Afro-Colombian organization Proceso de Comunidades Negras (Black Communities’ Process - PCN) and in their respective communities, are active in defending human rights.”
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…