| Black Agenda Report

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Amiri Poem for Boss Tweet
01 Jul 2020
Who tolt us ‘bout an unknown 19th of June— who the TikTok teens cast as buffoon? Who? Who say Douglass alive and doin’ good work— who turn the War House into a grifter perk? Who? Who be grabbin’ pussy and standin’ they ground— who think they farts have symphonic sound? Who? Who say Mexicans are…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
How Do You Spell Desecration of African Burials?: “Nigger!”
01 Jul 2020
Much of the nation may be repudiating white supremacy, but not Montgomery County, Maryland, which is paving over sacred Black ground in an attempt to bury its own racist history. “Scattered pieces of ‘light-colored elongated material consistent with skeletal material’ may be our…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Syria, Corporate Media Lies, and the True Face of Imperialism: An Interview with Richard Medhurst
01 Jul 2020
If independent media want to be a real counterweight to establishment media, they must challenge the status quo in its entirety. “The question isn’t why am I cursing and angry, the question is why isn’t everyone else?”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Neocolonial African Conservation Inspired by “Tarzan”
01 Jul 2020
Ann Garrison responds to a critic of neocolonial nature “conservation” in Africa, and discusses US-backed threats to national sovereignty and all forms of life in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “The US and the rest of the West have appointed Kagame as the neocolonial manager of DRC’s vast…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Russia, Afghanistan, and the Big Lie
01 Jul 2020
Far from being an enemy, Russia assisted the U.S. and its coalition in their fight against the Taliban. “Russia is the nation least likely to do business with jihadists.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Protest and Power
02 Jul 2020
Building People’s Power is the vital arena of struggle under late stage capitalism, when the “system” is not only objectively failing, but the people know it is coming apart at the seams. “Diminished budgets do not make the police accountable to the people or allow the people to…
Gustavus Griffin
What’s in a Name Change?: A New Black/Native American Solidarity
08 Jul 2020
Native American and African/Black people in America have both been victims of Settler Colonialism. “Black Lives Matter activists stood in solidarity with the Sioux at Standing Rock in resistance to the Keystone Pipeline.” A friend texted me, asking: “Do you think Snyder really will change the Skins…
Roger Stoll
Cuban Spies Disguised As Doctors
08 Jul 2020
The European Union now excludes travelers from the COVID-ridden U.S., but welcomes those from the virtually COVID-free Cuba. Cuba, the country that sends doctors and infectious disease specialists around the world to fight the pandemic, the country the U.S. has held in contempt for 60 years,…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
The Weaponization of Culture
08 Jul 2020
While statues glorifying white supremacy are being torn down across the globe, a Maryland county is busy desecrating African graves and building a new edifice to white supremacy. “‘There is always something that is more important than Black Lives, in life and in death.”
Stephen Sefton
Nicaragua – How Phony Human Rights Groups Slandered a U.S.-Targeted Nation
08 Jul 2020
Nicaragua's case is a text-book example of how genuine human rights research has been subverted so as to produce highly biased reports. “The human rights industry markets itself dishonestly, but very powerfully, as if it were driven by humanitarian concern rather than ideological bias.”