| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The Bolton Speech on Africa: A Case of the Wolf and the Foxes
19 Dec 2018
The Trump administration claims China and Russia are exploiting Africa, but US policy offers nothing but more guns, more bases and more subversion. “Economic relations with China provides African states a modicum of spaceto exercise more effective national sovereignty than had ever been afforded…
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
19 Dec 2018
Readers engaged us on questions of war, peace, and the ways forward for organized resistance. Provocative comments came for “Why We Can’t Have Nice Things – Like A Fighting Green Party” and “Anti-Russian Hysteria Makes Americans Stupid”.
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
For Fancy Miss Nancy
19 Dec 2018
Guess who I saw today, black and white photo, Marching, Montgomery from Selma, ‘65? Guess who I saw at my high school swingin’ the Trio; urging us to stay in school? Guess who I, was privileged to sequence a later CD for, late one night? …and you don’t know, you don’t know how Glad I am that she…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Bolton Threatens to Force Africa to Choose Between the US and China
20 Dec 2018
The Americans wager that they can exercise veto power over African political alignments by force of arms, through AFRICOM’s massive military infiltration of the region. “The ‘West’s’ political economies are spent forces, incapable of either keeping up with China’s phenomenal domestic growth or of…
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Reader
26 Dec 2018
We have another round of strong feedback engaging with and challenging our pieces this week.
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
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02 Jan 2019
one of those sweltering summer nights, City of Angels, run by devils… Cruising Imperial Highway heading westbound to the water when a newsflash interrupted Atlantic, Stax, Motown blasting Who was driving? I do not recall. Anyway, we pulled off the road, stopped the car. And, in language of Testi-…
Solomon Comissiong
Those who Boycott Facebook, Should Also Boycott The Democratic Party
02 Jan 2019
In the spirit of Harriet Tubman, we need to free Black America from the grip of the imperial Democratic Party plantation. “Both parties have also been equal opportunity imperialists.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Traci West’s“Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality and GerShun Avilez’s “Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism”
02 Jan 2019
Our authors reject the contention that Black nationalism was mostly concerned with upholding traditional patriarchy and heterosexuality -- evils that are in fact buttressed by many contemporary “Christians.”
Mark P. Fancher
Is Armed Struggle Still The Most Effective Way to Resist Imperialism in Africa?
02 Jan 2019
It is now far more difficult for imperialists to launch direct boots-on-the-ground military attacks on Africa without an explanation. “Plans were announced to discontinue seven of eight counterterrorism units in Africa, but the U.S. ill expand the use of armed drones.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
02 Jan 2019
Our Readers reacted to challenges to “niceness” in American society and the history behind Kwanzaa. Comments came in for “Americans Not Really So Nice” and “Why I Can’t Celebrate Kwanzaa.”