| Black Agenda Report

Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
31 Jul 2019
This week readers raised some controversial questions. You discussed the Joe Biden campaign and attempts to present “queer” Muslims. We share your letters for “Sanders, Biden, and the Electability Scam” and “BAR Book Forum: Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo’s ‘Halal If You Hear…
BAR Editor and Columnist, Dr. Marsha Adebayo and Chris Rigaux
A Legacy of Violence and Land Appropriation Bethesda Moses African Cemetery
31 Jul 2019
Montgomery County officials thought no one would care about a “bunch of dead black folks.” “Our demands are quite simple and grounded in justice. Give the land back!”
Josmar Trujillo
The “Total Anarchy” of Wet Cops
31 Jul 2019
No matter how many Black people cops kill and abuse, corporate media amplify voices that shift victimhood onto the police force. “There is little empirical evidence for the notion that disorder sparks serious crime.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Bad Hombre Defense
31 Jul 2019
Wait! Call the Cream Team— Dershbag’s a lawyer, Slick Willy’s a lawyer— Wait! Before you suicide the accused Serial pedophile predator who could flip and name names, Before he has a heart attack, or viagra overdose Before he hangs himself with dental floss; or a garbage bag There’…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Megan Rapinoe: Fake Progressive
31 Jul 2019
The con of diversity is all that distinguishes Democratic Party elites and white feminists from the big Orange Menace in the White House. “Rapinoe is not Kaepernick.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Russiagate Fanatic Michael Isikoff’s Curious Project
31 Jul 2019
Seymour Hersh has been right about some of the biggest stories of our times, and he thinks the DNC email theft was an inside job. “WikiLeaks might have contributed to Clinton’s loss, but we really can’t say much more than that.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Trump and Black Misleadership Class: Collaborators in the Defense of White Power
31 Jul 2019
Black people are not obligated to defend opportunists and servants of white capital in Baltimore just because they were called out by Trump. “The reality of Baltimore is the reality of decaying and dying cities and rural areas across this nation.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Trump and Baltimore
31 Jul 2019
Anyone feeling the need to defend Baltimore from Trump’s opinions ought to talk about what really ails that city. “There is more reason to rise up in righteous indignation over the Keith Davis verdict than Trump’s latest rant.” There is only one person worthy of being defended in the wake of Donald…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Reparations Rising – With Permission from White Democrats
01 Aug 2019
Black people’s support for reparations has soared in sync with the concept’s receptivity among white Democrats and establishment Black politicians. “Nothing useful to the Black struggle will result from all this reparations-like drama if it remains within the Democratic Party’s corporate domain.”
Howie Hawkins
The Rich White Man’s Justice System Protects Trump and his Cronies
07 Aug 2019
Justice will have to be found outside the two-party system of corporate rule. “Democratic elites at the top of the foreign policy-making and military operations structures provided justifications and logistics for the crimes.”