| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
U.S. imperial Decline and the Belt and Road Initiative: The Most Important Global Struggle of the Century
07 Aug 2019
U.S. imperialism views the One Belt One Road as an existential threat to the domination and monopoly of the dollar. “China is becoming deeply connected to Asia, Europe, and Africa and this spells doom for U.S. imperial hegemony.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Who’s a White Supremacist?
07 Aug 2019
Americans have an openly racist president, racist foreign policy, racist law enforcement and racist corporate media. “A settler colonial state depended upon gun carrying white people to uphold the social order.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
American Exceptionalism = Mass Murder
08 Aug 2019
U.S. police agencies, including the FBI, are incapable of mounting an effective offensive against their soul mates in the armed white right. “The FBI has always behaved as if armed white supremacists were a potential reserve force to help crush Black rebellions.”
Global Information Network
New Ebola Drugs Show Exciting Promise With Up To 90 Percent Cure Rate
14 Aug 2019
A breakthrough in the fight against one of the world’s most terrifying diseases. “Now we can say that 90 percent can come out of treatment cured, they will start believing it and developing trust.” Two experimental treatments are raising hopes among medical personnel that a cure for the…
Steve Hochstadt
How African American Land Was Stolen in the 20th Century
14 Aug 2019
The US government gave hundreds of millions of acres of land to whites, but failed to give freed slaves 40 acres and a mule or protect Black farmers from massive theft. “There were nearly 1 million black farms in 1920, about one-seventh of all American farms, mostly in the South.”
Zanga Chimombo
Ancient Eugenicists
14 Aug 2019
Ancient Egyptians were not Asians, nor aliens. “Genocide might indeed be a worse demon of our nature.”
Derecka Purnell
Mass Shootings, Militarism and Policing Are Chapters in the Same Manifesto
14 Aug 2019
White supremacist killers in the U.S. are simply implementing on a local level what their government does across the globe. “White people attack Brown and Black Muslims in the United States precisely because of the country’s wars abroad.” After two mass shooters killed and injured dozens…
Matthew Quest
Distinguished Black Scholar Writes Biography of Jefferson for the Age of Trump
14 Aug 2019
In the Age of Trump, it could be said that all interpreters of Jefferson and US History have their own “alternative facts.” “There is a Jefferson embraced by progressives but also racialists, evangelicals, and secessionists.” A Review Wilson Jeremiah Moses. Thomas Jefferson: A Modern…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Azeezat Johnson, Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Beth Kamunge’s “The Fire Now”
14 Aug 2019
A new book highlights what contemporary prohibitions on Black life look like in various geographical and socio-political spaces. “Simply knowing what must come to an end is not the same as envisioning futures.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nathan Schneider’s “Everything for Everyone”
14 Aug 2019
Cooperation is a radical model that could fundamentally reorient our economy toward democracy. “Co-ops have been an important tool of social justice movements and the left.”