| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Running Green Against Barbara Lee in D13: Tax the Rich and Stop the Wars
27 Jun 2018
“We need a real debate between a Democratic Party team player and a Green Party no-corporate-money candidate.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Singapore Summit Proves Why Democrats Lead the War Party
27 Jun 2018
“Liberalism is the most preferred variant of imperialist ideology of the ruling class.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: No Protest for Black People
27 Jun 2018
by Margaret Kimberley by Margaret Kimberley “Latino and other immigrants provide a safety valve for people who support or accept anti-black racism as an inevitable fact of life.” Donald Trump is certainly a motivator for white liberals. That group was quiescent when other presidents…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Racial and Ethnic Roundups are Legal, As Long As “Race” Is Not the Only Reason
28 Jun 2018
“When the feds invoke ‘national security’ all bets are off on how far they will go in suppressing the ‘threat,’ including mass roundups.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
COG (Continuity Of Government)
28 Jun 2018
The Drone Ranger’s wife purred, “When they go low—with boots on the ground—we go high with drones.” And Negroz got giddy— repeating ad nauseam… © 2018. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved. Raymond Nat Turner is Black Agenda Report's poet in residence. Find much more of his owrk…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Doing Good Work
03 Jul 2018
Bet you wonderin’ how I knew, What’s fake and what’s true? I heard it through the grapevine— Or, maybe I read it online? I heard from an avid reader— The world’s most learned leader, A brilliant, sky high-IQ-guy— Truth-teller who would never lie, Reader of four books every two weeks Who goes…
Dr. Matthew Quest
Top Ten Reasons We Don't Know More About C.L.R. James
03 Jul 2018
Top Ten Reasons We Don’t Know About CLR James
Nombuso Mathibela
The Land Question: Unpacking Expropriation Without Compensation in South Africa
04 Jul 2018
“Pay no one for land acquired illegally.”
Josmar Trujillo
Papers Insist ‘We Need’ Secret Gang Databases—Just Like We ‘Needed’ Stop & Frisk
04 Jul 2018
“Police gang databases can lead to increased bail, harsher sentencing, erosion of presumption of innocence and even increased chances of deportation.”
Miles Kampf-Lassin
The Anti-Union Janus Ruling Is Going to Hit Black Women the Hardest
04 Jul 2018
“The public sector provides job opportunities for African-American workers, and women especially, at a rate much higher than the private sector.”