| Black Agenda Report

Nick Turse
US Secret Wars in Africa Rage on Despite Talk of Downsizing
01 Aug 2018
“There is no evidence yet of massive cuts, gradual reductions, or any downsizing whatsoever.” Last October, four U.S. soldiers -- including two commandos -- were killed in an ambush in Niger. Since then, talk of U.S. special operations in Africa has centered on missions being curtailed and troop…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tracy Fessenden’s “Religion Around Billie Holiday”
01 Aug 2018
“Billie Holiday reminds us to look unflinchingly at the face of power, to call things by their true names.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sylvia Chan-Malik’s “Being Muslim”
01 Aug 2018
“The book shows how deeply intertwined logics of anti-Muslim racism are with those of anti-Blackness.”
Annie Olaloku-Teriba
Afro-Pessimism and the (Un)Logic of Anti-Blackness
01 Aug 2018
“The meme of militant Black America has been allowed to cannibalise the broader traditions of resistance within which those militants were situated.” Identity Politics The Problem
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
As it Screams Russia, the Ruling Class Continues its Process of Elimination
01 Aug 2018
“Millions of Black people have been funneled into the mass Black incarceration state as a means to account for the disposability of their labor and the threat that their resistance has historically posed to the system at large.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Russiagate Covers Up Black Vote Theft
01 Aug 2018
“The Democrats want our votes, but if we aren’t allowed to vote at all they pretend not to know.” “They want me on, as long as I talk about Russia. And I said, ‘What about black voters?’ ‘Well that’s race issues.’ The reason I’m allowed on MSNBC is because I’m with people like Joy Reid and Al…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Trump and the Politics of Neoliberal Distraction
01 Aug 2018
“If Trump decides to ‘throw a whistle-blower in jail for trying to talk to a reporter, or gets the F.B.I. to spy on a journalist, he will have one man to thank for bequeathing him such expansive power: Barack Obama.’”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Rwandan Dictator Paul Kagame’s Paranoia Strikes Deep
01 Aug 2018
“Dissidents say Kagame shuttered houses of worship because they were the last spaces in Rwanda where people felt safe from his totalitarian grip.” He’s the President of Rwanda and the current President of the African Union, feted by the Brookings Institute, one of the most venerable ideological…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Bizarre Facebook Path to Corporate Fascism
02 Aug 2018
“The Facebook intervention is a qualitative escalation of the McCarthyite offensive.”
Brandon Do
Toward a New Vision for the Palestine Solidarity Movement
08 Aug 2018
“For 70 years Israel has been the biggest purveyor of war and chaos in what colonizers termed as the “Middle East.”