| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Yellow Vests Show the Way
12 Dec 2018
The yellow vests ought to be inspirations for the 99% on this side of the Atlantic ocean. “They will not accept neoliberal plunder without a fight.” French law requires drivers to keep gilets jaunes, yellow vests, in their vehicles. The vests are a safety measure ensuring visibility for anyone who…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Another Sentimental PSYOP
12 Dec 2018
Prelude: One Warlord croons, “Bomb, bomb, bomb—bomb, bomb Iran—“ another Warlord solemnly chants, in Spanish, “Yes, we can!” A Warlord of Wall Street and Washington Lies ensconced in scribbling and inTeflon Canonized by high priests of the Pentagon By holy prophets of Boeing and Raytheon Gaslighted…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Julian Assange: No Surrender
12 Dec 2018
Supporters of the Wikileaks founder say he won’t leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London unless the British police drag him away. “If you look at his enemies, and you look at who wants to lock him up forever, it's clear that we have to defend him.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
An Electoral Strategy to Defeat Police Oppression – and Its Black Allies -- in Chicago
13 Dec 2018
Chicago’s movement against official lawlessness has found they have no choice but to challenge virtually the whole Black Democratic establishment for collaborating with police murder and impunity. “So long as we allow police tyranny and terror to exist in our communities, for that period of time we…
Teodrose Fikre
Bigoted Paternalism Behind “Russians Targeted African-Americans” NY Times Article
19 Dec 2018
The Russiagate propagandists sound like the segregationists of yesteryear, warning of “outside agitators” trying to “stir up the Nigras.” “The Times would have us believe that the reason African-Americans did not uniformly vote for Hillary Clinton and the Democrats is because they were too…
Wilmer J. Leon III
“Green Book” – Not Our Story; His-Story, Their Fiction
19 Dec 2018
Hollywood does not hesitate to totally fictionalize, diminish and malign a Black historical figure, Dr Don Shirley, for its own white supremacist purposes. “The film weaves a totally false narrative about Dr. Shirley and his relationship with Lip.”
Ellen Brown
This Radical Plan to Fund the ‘Green New Deal’ Just Might Work
19 Dec 2018
The US could finance a “Green” New Deal in the same way that it paid for the first New Deal, during the Depression – with public “banking” institutions. “FDR used the publicly owned Reconstruction Finance Corporation as a public infrastructure bank.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Julia Jordan-Zachery’s“Shadow Bodies“and Sabine Broeck’s “Gender and the Abjection of Blackness”
19 Dec 2018
Our authors examine how white feminism became “junior partner to enslavist capitalist patriarchy,” and how do we “resist silences that limit the span of democracy?” “How does our act of silencing “non-prototypical” Black women allow for the perpetuation of their marginalization by others and by us…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Michelle Obama Slanders Black Men in Her Book, Adds to the Obama Family’s Long Anti-Black Tradition
19 Dec 2018
The Obamas are cashing in on their lifelong project to further the destruction of Black people, while blaming the victim. “When it comes to imperialism, it pays to be anti-Black.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: UK and US PSYOP Collusion
19 Dec 2018
Russiagate hysteria is an international conspiracy, with British spooks spreading lies on three continents. Now Black Americans are slandered as “dupes” of Moscow. “There was foreign meddling in the 2016 election but it came from British spooks like Christopher Steele and undercover operatives, not…