| Black Agenda Report

by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
chief
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.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
How the US Spent Billions to Change the Outcome of Elections Around the World: A Review
02 Jan 2019
The U.S. military state overthrows democratically-elected governments that it deems to be a threat to corporate interests. “There is plenty of evidence that the United States is the most depraved and dangerous “meddler” in the affairs of other nations that history has ever known.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Liberté, Égalité, Impérialisme! Vive la France in Black Africa!
02 Jan 2019
Paul Kagame’s troops most likely shot down a plane carrying two African presidents, igniting genocides that killed millions — but the Rwandan President has never been charged. “Former Rwandan General Nyamwasa said that Kagame most definitely ordered his troops to shoot down the plane carrying…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Elizabeth Warren and the Trap for Black Voters
02 Jan 2019
Whether Democrats are openly obstructionist corporatists like Pelosi, or liberal sounding like Warren, they will not consider any meaningful systemic reforms. “In the South, Democrat means black and those voters have every right to ask hard questions and make clear demands.”
Nzinga Damu
45 Questions To Help Us Understand Our HBCU Crisis
03 Jan 2019
The questions below are offfered to help us look deeper into the crises of our Historically Black Colleges and Univerisites. By thinking about, by answering, and by discussing questions like these with your fellow students, with your instructors, and especially with campus workers, it's our…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Yes, White People Are Also Killed by the Mass Black Incarceration Regime
03 Jan 2019
The WSWS site has done a disservice to Marxism and to the Black Lives Matter movement with its ideologically driven study of police killings in the U.S., focusing on dead white people. “All U.S. cops function in a system that has been purposely organized to contain, control and terrorize…