| Black Agenda Report

by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Piece Process
23 May 2018
Breathe, Relax, Aim, Sight, Squeeze it’s a joy-stick; a video game to him He has orders to “light up” anything that moves; “Mow the grass, one blade at a time…” “One shot, one kill…” So far, he’s bagged a man on crutches, 3 disabled, 2 children Azriel stalks victims in the valley of death; studies…
Kevin Zeese
Venezuela: The Media Blockade
30 May 2018
“US sanctions have had the effect of causing the people to blame the United States and unify around Maduro and the current government.”
Gloria Tatum
Officer Claims He Feared for His Life from Naked, Unarmed Man
30 May 2018
“Hill was not aggressive, threatening, or hit anyone.” The two-day immunity hearing for Olsen concluded on Tuesday, May 22, in DeKalb County Superior Court with Judge J.P. Boulee presiding. Judge Boulee will give his decision in about three weeks as to whether Olsen will stand trial for felony…
Judi Rever
In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
30 May 2018
“Kabila was always just a creature of the foreign powers underneath him.” The following has been excerpted from Judi Rever’s compelling new book, with permission of the publisher, Random House Canada.
Black Alliance For Peace
The Black Alliance for Peace Demands U.S. Out of Africa
30 May 2018
“We demand that the Congressional Black Caucus take a public stand in opposition to AFRICOM.” African Liberation Day (ALD) grew out of the attempts to establish the continental unity of Africa and all African people 55 years ago and is now celebrated every May 25th around the world.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sami Schalk’s Bodyminds Reimagined
30 May 2018
“Concepts of able-mindedness are historically based within gender and racial norms of masculinity and whiteness—with damaging and deadly results for black people.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nell Painter’s Old in Art School
30 May 2018
“The ideology I’d like to dismantle makes every black person the same as every other black person, assumed to be a man or woman under the age of sixty-five.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
As Sharpton Drooled Over Royals, Righteous Folks Celebrated the Real Heroes of May 19th
30 May 2018
“The revolutionary heroes of May 19th would find Sharpton and his clique not just repulsive, but criminal as well.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: When Uncle Tom Falls
30 May 2018
“Fryer posited that perhaps black people are genetically inferior to whites or that black children don’t succeed in school for the same reason.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Divide and Rule: Balkanizing the Democratic Republic of Congo
30 May 2018
“The Belgians had made it clear, before independence, that they did not intend to cede control of its wealth to the Congolese.”