| Black Agenda Report

Cornel West and Deborah Chasman
Cornel West Discusses Barriers to Black Truth-Telling in America
15 May 2019
Establishment publishing houses are a lot more “colorful” than they used to be, but that doesn’t mean they care about the poor and imprisoned, says the nation’s most prominent Black intellectual. “You’ve got to talk about capitalism, you’ve got to talk about empire.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
2020 Elections: Its Militarism and the Military Budget Stupid!
15 May 2019
The Trump military budget is more than a third higher than five years ago, while cutting non-defense programs by 9 percent– but the corporate media ignore the issue and Democratic candidates are silent. “Most of the neoliberal candidates running in the Democratic Party’s electoral process…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Book Review: The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood
15 May 2019
The vulnerability of Black men and boys in the U.S. counters the narrative that they inherently seek to emulate the dominance and plunder of white men over women so characteristic of imperial patriarchy. “Our understandings of gender have been infected by the lust for Black male disposability…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: U.S. Wages War Against the World
15 May 2019
The U.S. “troika of tyranny,” Trump, Bolton and Pompeo, are making things up as they go along, seeking to bend the planet to their lawless will. “The activists who chose to protect the Venezuelan embassy from Guaido and the other Venezuelan traitors are showing us the way to move forward.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Embassy crawlers, kidnappers, Butchers and Boss Tweet…
15 May 2019
“The receiving State is under a special duty to take all appropriate steps to protect the premises of the mission against any intrusion or damage and to prevent any disturbance of the peace of the mission or impairment of its dignity.” — Article 22 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961.…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The U.S. Has Been Eclipsed in Every Sphere But War
16 May 2019
US rulers promised that technology would bring the return of the millions of jobs that were outsourced to low-wage countries, but America has lost the hi-tech race and excels only in weapons of war. “The early U.S. global hi-tech lead was squandered in the chaotic and criminally wasteful corporate…
Adam Tomes
Los Angeles: City of Segregation
22 May 2019
Only white Americans have the freedom to use their wealth to buy a home wherever they like, and they use that freedom to isolate themselves from others. “Capital has been structured by race.”
Dave Tell
How Poverty is Reshaping the Story of Emmett Till’s Murder
22 May 2019
Scholars continue to debate what, exactly, happened to Emmett Till, but a poor Black town is betting its future on one version of the story. “Who gets to decide what, exactly, happened?”
Lucas Koerner.and Ricardo Vaz
Venezuela Media Far More Diverse Than US
22 May 2019
Not only is the Venezuelan press free to criticize the government, the opposition dominates the media and uses it to foment coups. “Venezuela has five nationwide dailies still in print, the majority of which are anti-government.”
Mark P. Fancher
Socialism – The Litmus Test for Authentic African Leadership
22 May 2019
There is no better time than African Liberation Day to call out Africa’s imperialist stooges, lackeys and puppets. “There are far too many neo-colonial African leaders willing to dance to the African dependency tune.” A man lost in the desert needs water and lots of it. If instead, a rescuer gives…