| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Democrats Unhinged by Korea
20 Jun 2018
“The bipartisan war making consensus is in full effect.” The process of Donald Trump’s meeting with Kim Jong Un was as singular as the event itself. His ignorance, incompetence and egomania moved him from “fire and fury” and “little rocket man” to scheduling a meeting to cancelling the meeting to…
Paul Street
None of Us Are Free if One of Us is Chained
20 Jun 2018
“If the federal government ‘caging children’ and ‘separating families’ doesn’t put you in the streets, what will?”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Nikki Haley: Damn the UN Human Rights Council and the Rest of You Too
20 Jun 2018
“More censure of Israel is no doubt in the works, given Israel’s latest massacres in Gaza.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
China’s Planned Economy is on the Rise, which is Bad News for US Empire
20 Jun 2018
“American exceptionalism is rooted in the fairy-tale belief of racial superiority, of which American exceptionalism is a national and imperial expression.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Amerikkka Was Built on Busting Up Families…
20 Jun 2018
“I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13, to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained the government for his purposes” — Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, III, Human Impersonator
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Democratic Party is White Supremacist, Too
20 Jun 2018
“Neither party gives a damn about Black people’s right to self-determination.”
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Can the Green Party Be Saved From Liberal Tokenism and Black Opportunism? We’ll See.
21 Jun 2018
I never wanted to be one of those Goldilocks socialists, for whom everything is too hot, too cold, too lumpy or too smooth to be worthy of anything but withering criticism. I’m past 65 and fast running out of time waiting for Red Moses to come down the mountain with those stone tablets and present…
Greg Palast
Ohio’s Junk Mail Trick Led the Supreme Court to Approve Jim Crow Voter Purge
27 Jun 2018
“The Help America Vote Act blew open a giant loophole in the National Voter Registration Act’s protections.” The recent Supreme Court decision blessing Ohio’s removal of half a million voters was ultimately decided on the issue of a postcard. Now that little postcard threatens the voting rights of…
Don Fitz
When Cuban Polyclinics Were Born
27 Jun 2018
“Cuba has created a model for poor countries that forever changed medicine.”
Bryan K. Bullock
Modern Black Codes and the Cops That Enforce Them
27 Jun 2018
“The police respond as if the black person is guilty of whatever transgression the white person said they committed.”