| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Ukrainegate Farce
20 Nov 2019
The Democrats are hoping that Ukrainegate will succeed where Russiagate failed and they can win the presidency without helping their voters. “This spectacle is a get out the vote effort that doubles as anti-Russian propaganda.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Public Housing as the Front Line of Green New Deal
21 Nov 2019
The AOC-Sanders initiative seeks to flip the racist script by revaluing public housing and its remaining occupants. “In the United States it is axiomatic that concentrations of poor Black people are bad, while high-rises full of affluent white people are good.”
Ken Morgan
Fascism - The Other F-Word – And Trump
27 Nov 2019
Trump is a racist and demagogic capitalist Chief of State, but the United States is not fascist – yet. “The principal contradiction in U.S. society remains in the alienation between labor and capital.” Large swaths of folks from the left -- socialists, liberals, democratic socialists -- and even a…
Thomas J. Adams
The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
27 Nov 2019
Moving between the Philippines, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Mexico, South Africa, Brazil, and the United States, the author portrays how workers are fighting back. “It is the voices and sophisticated analyses of workers themselves that Orleck rightfully highlights.” “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now”:…
Chelli Stanley
The Origins of White Supremacy
27 Nov 2019
White supremacy is an incredibly insincere distraction that tries to erase the histories of White, Black, and Red peoples. “Many White people seem to have forgotten what happened to them.”
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
The Whole Damn System is Guilty as Hell: Taking Control of the Police
27 Nov 2019
Democratic community control of the police transforms the power dynamic between police and citizens. “One thousand people attended the re-founding of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression where the centerpiece of discussion was democratic control of the police.
Tiana Reid
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
27 Nov 2019
For me, the most generative way to read, the most thorough, is to teach a text, to read in communion with others. “How is Marx read, yes, but also, how does Marx read?”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Gary Phillip’s “The Be-Bop Barbarians”
27 Nov 2019
This book looks at the collision of race and class in a repressive time, in this case the late 1950s. “The groove is in the doing, hard driving bop and hard driving dreams.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
27 Nov 2019
Readers wanted to discuss police accountability, the impeachment hearings, the electoral college, and Barack Obama in this round of feedback. We print your letters for “When Even The FBI Can’t Hold Police Accountable, How Can Anyone Else?,” “Freedom Rider: Ukrainegate Farce…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The End of American Thanksgivings: A Cause for Universal Rejoicing
27 Nov 2019
The mythology that Thanksgiving nurtures is itself inherently evil. This article first appeared in the November 27, 2003 issue of The Black Commentator. “The Mayflower’s cultural heirs are programmed to find glory In their own depravity and savagery in their most helpless victims.”