| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Liberal Fascism Rears Its Ugly Head in the #ProtectMueller Campaign
20 Nov 2018
Enemies of the people do not become heroes of the people just because Trump dislikes them and they dislike Trump. “Mueller is a pig agent of the ruling class.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
The Amazon Robbery
21 Nov 2018
The world’s richest man just pulled a con job on several hundred US cities, which tells us a lot about the (mostly) Democrats that run these towns. “Public officials are the errand boys and girls for the billionaire rulers.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
21 Nov 2018
BAR’s readers challenge and expand upon the positions taken by our writers on Democratic gains in the House, intersectionality and police “reform.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Malcolm X Would Say Russiagate is a Fool’s Game
22 Nov 2018
The Democrats and their media have fashioned a trap for Blacks and browns: accept endless foreign wars and domestic austerity in return for the representation of dark faces in high places in the governing hierarchy. “The Democratic Party is the primary mechanism that suppresses progressive…
Critical Resistance
A National Abolitionist Victory for Public Health!
22 Nov 2018
Stop using police to deal with social problems and contain marginalized communities, says a report by a group representing 25,000 public health professionals. “The policy statement cautions against ineffective police reforms and urges decision makers on all levels of government to shift resources…
Anonymous
The Crisis at Philander Smith College: What Does It Say About HBCUs?
22 Nov 2018
Recently, HBCU Digest did an interview with Dr. Roderick Smothers, president of Philander Smith College, an HBCU in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was full of double-talk and did not ring true. A former student at Philander Smith College read Dominica Dunbar Dessalines’s “HBCU Scandal’s Don’t Die, They…
Don Fitz
Cuba's First Military Doctors (Part 1)
27 Nov 2018
Revolutionary Cuba decided in the Sixties “that the best defense for the island would be an international offense” -- in Africa. “Unlike countries in Latin America, those in Africa did not have established Communist Parties hostile to guerrilla efforts.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Abolition Spotlight Editor
BAR Abolition Spotlight: Derecka Purnell
27 Nov 2018
Police abolitionists “want a society that works to eliminate harm and promote liberation and self-determination.” “Police departments maintain order for the rich, shift problems from wealthy areas to poor areas, and respond to preventable harm with violence.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Keisha Lindsay’s “In a Classroom of Their Own”and Dixa Ramirez’s “Colonial Phantoms”
27 Nov 2018
Our authors address global anti-Blackness and the particular Dominican Republic variety, and examine the pros and cons of all black male schooling. “Establishing all-black male schools is not necessarily a panacea for what ails black school children.”
Robert Fantina
How the US Creates ‘Sh*thole’ Countries
27 Nov 2018
A new collection of essays, edited by former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, clearly shows that it is the U.S. that is largely responsible for the poverty and suffering in these very nations. “While mouthing freedom, democracy, and liberty, the United States has denied these very aspirations to…