| Black Agenda Report

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ M Archive
23 May 2018
“This moment we are living through has infinite possibilities, and not all of those possibilities include the existence of humans.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Keisha Blain’s Set the World on Fire
23 May 2018
“It is impossible to understand, or even fully appreciate, how black women have shaped national and global politics today without knowing the larger history.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Defeat of US Imperialism is a Strategic Necessity, not a Single Issue
23 May 2018
“Anti-colonial nationalism is the antithesis of US imperial rule, which is predicated to the unmitigated corporate and military plunder of the planet.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Gaza: Grandstanding Around a Slow Motion Genocide
23 May 2018
“Israel is massacring Palestinian civilians again, but ‘the UN’—meaning the Security Council—has no power to stop it.” Any relief for the people suffering in Gaza will have to come from outside the UN, so long as the US has veto power on the Security Council. As during the Vietnam War, the Council…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: CIA and FBI Election Interference
23 May 2018
“The same forces which went after Trump will come after anyone else who is seen as a danger to the system.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Caucus Sells Out Its Constituents Again – to the Cops
23 May 2018
“This bill will be received as yet another attack on these communities and threatens to exacerbate what is already a discriminatory system of mass incarceration in this country.”
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.