| Black Agenda Report

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Lives Over Luxury: The Poor People’s Army Plans to March on the DNC
12 Feb 2020
The founder of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign invites everyone to join them in a march against the DNC if it steals the presidential nomination. “We are setting up a Trumpville in Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Milwaukee.” The Democratic National Convention will convene in…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Kobe, Impeachment and the Coronavirus: A Study on the Dangers of White Liberal Fragility
12 Feb 2020
White liberalism is not a kinder, gentler form of white supremacy, or a lesser evil to the more explicit racism of Trump and his base. “Racist panic over the disease has been stoked by the entire ruling class, with a special role being played by the so-called ‘liberal’ corporate media.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Trump Has No Opposition
12 Feb 2020
The Bloomberg cash onslaught and the anti-Bernie conspiracy have laid bare the degree of collusion among the rulers. “The blatant war crimes committed against Venezuela elicit either nonchalance or outright support from the so-called resistance.”
Ed Pilkington
Chuck Sims Africa Freed: Final Jailed Move 9 Member Released From Prison
12 Feb 2020
The last of Philadelphia’s most besieged, and heroic, Black political families is released, after a 42-year ordeal. “Now 59, he has been in custody since shortly after he turned 18.” One of the great open wounds of the black liberation struggle of the 1970s has finally been healed with the release…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Free All Political Prisoners –- Including Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
13 Feb 2020
Julian Assange and his protégés have made common cause with Black revolutionaries in their zeal to lay bare the dictatorial nature of the omni-pervasive national security state and the sheer, racist barbarity of the U.S. imperial project. “A huge struggle must be launched to claim the means of…
Alice Speri
New York Schools Gang Unit Pushes the Criminalization of Children
19 Feb 2020
A school handbook paints a picture of youth criminality that is steeped in law enforcement lingo and appears to have been written by police rather than educators. “You are essentially priming teachers who are otherwise supposed to be interacting with their students and teaching them to now…
Jeff Bryant
How Corporations Are Forcing Their Way Into America’s Public Schools
19 Feb 2020
Public school students are being “trained” for jobs at specific corporations rather than educated for a lifetime in a changing world. “Students led to believe that business-branded CTE courses guarantee future employment with the business are really buying into a ‘false promise.’”
Solomon Comissiong
Indoctrination Nation: The Institutionalization of US Imperialism
19 Feb 2020
Crimes that earned their perpetrators capital sentences at Nuremberg are celebrated as the sacred patrimony of the United States. “Those who speak out against the war-machine are often seen as outcasts and anti-American troublemakers who need to be silenced.”
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Embassy Defenders Win Mistrial, But the Struggle Continues
19 Feb 2020
The jury felt they weren’t hearing the whole story, due to the suppression of nearly every relevant fact in the case. “The US charade claiming Guaido is the president and the judge refusing to challenge that fiction has dangerous and deadly consequences.”
Global Information Network
Nigeria Jailing Journalists
19 Feb 2020
Stories that embarrass high officials can earn reporters treason charges, imprisonment and death. “Alex Ogbu and Precious Owolabi were killed under similar circumstances.” Nigeria is rounding up journalists who investigate corruption – jailing them for indefinite periods of time and accusing them…