| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Trump Wages Economic War on the Planet
10 May 2018
“Trump is a man with no foreign policy of his own, but who is currently acting like a hand-puppet of -- not Russia, but Israel and its de facto ally, Saudi Arabia.”
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Barber Sermon on Militarism Reveals Philosophical & Political Limitations of the Poor Peoples Campaign
11 May 2018
"Rev. Barber speaks for the politically leftish wing of the Institutional Church in the US, which has pretty much anointed him the mantle of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s final year, minus the burden King carried as one of the nation’s most hated, derided and despised public figures."
Sam Levin
Balogun Speaks Out on FBI Surveillance of “Black Identity Extremists”
16 May 2018
“Balogun is believed to be the first person targeted and prosecuted under the secretive program.” RakemBalogun thought he was dreaming when armed agents in tactical gear stormed his apartment. Startled awake by a large crash and officers screaming commands, he soon realized his nightmare was real,…
R. Divya Nair
“The Truth Shall Make You Free”: The Friendship Of Paul Robeson, Shirley Graham Du Bois, and W.E.B Du Bois
16 May 2018
“Robeson and the Du Boises knew that the struggle against European imperialism had to be waged on both the material as well as the ideological front.”
Tryon P. Woods
“Stand Your Ground”: Siwatu-Salama Ra and Black Self-Defense, Part 2
16 May 2018
“In a slaveholding society such as ours, even after the formal institution of chattel slavery has ended, each and every legal principle ultimately expresses the foundational antagonism between non-black and black.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power
16 May 2018
“All of the women in the book envisioned new and expansive visions of black liberation.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. Today’s featured author is Ashley D. Farmer. Farmer is Assistant Professor of History at Boston University. Her book is…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Spill
16 May 2018
“Spill is about freeing up our imaginations and our bodies for a world we deserve and yet don’t know how to narrate.”
Black Alliance For Peace
Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza
16 May 2018
“The systematic violence could not have occurred without the ongoing support from the U.S.” While the delegation from the Trump administration and leaders from various parts of the world gathered in Jerusalem to witness the illegal and immoral move of the United States embassy to that beleaguered…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
What does Kanye West Have to do with the Jobless Rate? A Lot
16 May 2018
“Kanye West merely represents what happens when the Black misleadership class begins to reflect the crisis of the US system.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Black Support for the Police State
16 May 2018
“If having black faces in high and not so high places doesn’t save our lives why should we support them at all?” The worst hate group in the United States is not the Ku Klux Klan or any self-proclaimed alt-right group. The most racist, vicious, and deadly menace to black people in this country is…