| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Russians are Coming, for Kamala Harris
24 Jul 2019
The lightweight senator hopes voters will let her party off the hook for its failures if the word Russia is repeated often enough. “She has gotten away with spewing foolishness and telling black people that they didn’t really support Colin Kaepernick as much as they thought.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Sanders, Biden and the Electability Scam
25 Jul 2019
If Black people were choosing sides in the primary based on ideology and issues, Biden would have little appeal and Sanders would win, hands down. “Only Bernie Sanders offers programs big enough to convince a small portion of Trump’s whites to choose saving their sick mother over stoking their…
Dr. Kweli Nzito
Descent into Barbarism: Silently Killing the Vulnerable
31 Jul 2019
The bulk of peoples targeted in vicious US economic wars are outside the Eurocentric spheres and overwhelming people of color. “Blanket sanctions that deny the helpless basic essentials will soon yield consequences of devastating proportions.”
Nick Turse
Violence Has Spiked in Africa Since Founding of AFRICOM, Says Pentagon Study
31 Jul 2019
Since AFRICOM was created, key indicators of security and stability in Africa have plummeted. “The US military has recently conducted more named operations in Africa than anywhere else in the world.”
Monique Judge
Chicago Police Compiling Dossiers on People Who Speak at Police Board Meetings
31 Jul 2019
Even cops that testify before the board have had their files updated. “’Totally inappropriate,’ said the city’s newly elected Black mayor.” Why would the Chicago Police Department be running background checks on people who sign up to speak at public meetings of the city’s police disciplinary panel?
The Public Archive
Markets and Margins: An interview with Etant Dupain
31 Jul 2019
The Haitian market woman has been marginalized by the same forces that oppress and prey on her nation. “President Clinton single-handedly destroyed Haiti’s ability to produce local rice while Arkansas-produced rice (heavily subsidized itself) now floods the market.”
B.R. Gowani
Nancy Pelosi: The leader of the “Hizb al-Shaitan”
31 Jul 2019
Pelosi is not transparent like Trump in her cunning moves but, like Trump, is averse to any challenge to the status quo. “Is the party going to listen, and do something, about the changes the progressives want? Hell, no.” Hizb al-Shaitan
Roger Stoll
Book Review: Live from Nicaragua: Uprising or Coup? A Reader
31 Jul 2019
Behind much opposition violence stood US regime-change NGOs. “Nicaragua’s social and economic achievements and its open rejection of imperialism present the classic ‘threat of a good example.’”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant’s“Talking to the Dead”
31 Jul 2019
Being connected to one’s ancestors is not hocus pocus, but a way to navigate life and struggle. “What might our lives look like if we took seriously the ways that our ancestors laid important groundwork for inhabiting the world?”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Peter Cole’s “Dockworker Power”
31 Jul 2019
The author examines how ordinary workers in multiracial societies simultaneously challenged racism and their bosses. “Black workers proved powerful enough to close down South Africa’s gateway to the global economy.”