| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Terri Sewell, the Worst of the Black Caucus, Subverts $15 Wage Bill
18 Apr 2019
Selma, Alabama, has produced the most reactionary Black Congressperson in modern times, part of the Democratic Party’s increasing servitude to corporate interests. “Sewell’s counter-legislation would neuter the Sanders bill in most of the country.”
T.P. Wilkinson
The Expense of the American Dream
24 Apr 2019
Professor Gerald Horne shows that the Dark Continent was Europe, not Africa. “The slogans liberté, egalité et fraternité were fashioned to unite Europeans against Africans, not with them.” The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in…
Carlos Aznárez
“Imperialism Does Not Understand the Resistance of the Venezuelan People”
24 Apr 2019
Even the loss of the equivalent of a full year’s economic production due to US aggression has not broken the people’s will. “A new international monetary system is advancing, apparently with a gold backing.”
Peter James Hudson
The Racist Dawn of Capitalism
24 Apr 2019
The centrality of slavery to capitalism is not new, as any serious student of WEB Dubois is aware. “Negro slavery seemed the very basis of American capitalism.” Empire of Cotton: A Global History Sven Beckert Vintage, $17.95 (paper) The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of…
Bill Ayers
Lawyers for the Left: In the Courts, In the Streets, and on the Air
24 Apr 2019
People’s lawyers found the cracks and searched out open spaces in the law. “The law is constructed in the service of whatever social/economic system created it.”
Janine Jackson
The FBI Appears to Be Targeting Black Activists
24 Apr 2019
Counterspin interviews Nusrat Choudhury on the modern version of COINTELPRO. “This label of ‘Black Identity Extremists’ is based on nothing; there’s no credible evidence that such a movement or group even exists.”
The Political Theology Network
Political Theology Network Seeks Radical Anti-Imperial Perspectives on Religion and Politics
24 Apr 2019
The upcoming conference aims to bring together scholars, activists, and artists motivated by a concern for justice. “We are looking for projects that challenge and transform conversations about political theology.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kinohi Nishikawa’s “Street Players”
24 Apr 2019
The question is not Who stole Black pulp fiction, but Who owned and profited from it. “Social movement and popular culture are not the same thing.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: David Correia and Tyler Wall’s“Police: A Field Guide”
24 Apr 2019
“The police” is a regime of state violence that is designed to have freedom from the “rule of law.” “Cops don’t just patrol our streets, they patrol the language we use to understand police.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
24 Apr 2019
This week readers discussed identity politics and imperialism, the Green New Deal, and the legacies of communism and NATO. We share comments for “Green Party Necessary to Pass Green New Deal,” “Global NATO: A 70 Year History of Oppressors in Crisis,” and “