| Black Agenda Report

Mark P. Fancher
Give No Thanks for Settlers’ Savagery
27 Nov 2019
The peculiar national holiday is a celebration of white settler conquest – a whitewashing of unspeakable crimes. “Denial is facilitated by an extensive and elaborate collection of myths.”
Álvaro García Linera
Bolivia Coup: Hatred of the Indian
27 Nov 2019
How did the traditional middle class incubate so much hatred and resentment towards the people, leading them to embrace racialized fascism centered on the Indian as the enemy? “Racial supremacy is something that is not rationalized. It lives as a tattoo of the colonial history.” The author is the…
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
count ALL votes
27 Nov 2019
POW…POW…POW…POW… My leaders were voted out of office with hot lead ballots: red runoffs in driveways, beds, ballroom floors, on balconies, and college campuses. Mentioning the masked man the same breath’s an affront! Now, all that remains are sleazy senators, corrupt congressmen— strings…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Barack Obama and the Ruling Class Target the Black Vote to Smother Sanders
27 Nov 2019
Obama’s principle task is to ensure sure that Black Americans do not vote in the direction of single-payer healthcare and housing for all. “The ruling class needs Obama as an adviser and bully of the Black vote.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Say No to Bloomberg
27 Nov 2019
Bloomberg says he wants to stop Donald Trump but he’s really running to stop Bernie Sanders. “Bloomberg targeted black people for political gain with whites and he created great suffering in the process.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
A (Re)Born National “Black and Left-Led” Organization Fights for Community Control of Police
28 Nov 2019
On the momentum of Chicago’s anti-police movement – the most advanced in the nation – the city’s Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression has gone national after a highly successful conference. “This movement will be ‘black-led and left-led.’”
Nikhil Pal Singh
The Pervasive Power of the Settler Mindset
04 Dec 2019
The destructive premise at the core of the American settler narrative is that freedom is built upon the violent elimination of other peoples. “The challenges of undoing settler ethics have never been higher.
review by Michael Steven Smith
The Trials of Julian Assange
04 Dec 2019
A new book offers a sweeping defense of the imprisoned Wikileaks publisher. “The prosecution of Assange is the most significant challenge to a free press in our lifetimes.” Whistle-blowing, truth-telling journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange now sits in solitary confinement in…
Enzo Calandra
Ukrainian Roulette: The “Ukrainegate” Gamble
04 Dec 2019
Liberals have enlisted the CIA to repudiate a clearly obscene and grotesque president because they themselves are obscene and grotesque in many of the same ways. “Trump’s more serious violations are not pursued as crimes because they are common practice by both the liberal and conservative parties…
Zanga Chimombo
Brown Privilege in Africa
04 Dec 2019
Inadequate attention seems to have been paid to the significance of racial miscegenation (or us “in-betweeners”) in the process of domination. “It is unfashionable to be associated with anything African at the moment.”