“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”
The opening of the Obama Center has brought Barack Obama back into the spotlight, although he offers nothing new.
“George Washington/Slave-owner general/Ironic that the father of this country should be a slave owner/The father of this country a slave-owner.”
Douglass called the Fourth of July a hollow mockery in 1852, and nothing has changed except that the empire is now more corrupt, more unequal, and more at war than the founders imagined.
This week, we discuss the status of talks between Iran and the U.S. and whether the U.S. can be trusted. First, a discussion on the intersection of Colombia’s election, the World Cup, and the U.S. white supremacist ideology.
“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”
The opening of the Obama Center has brought Barack Obama back into the spotlight, although he offers nothing new. He will be in the pocket of the…
“George Washington/Slave-owner general/Ironic that the father of this country
Should be a slave owner/The father of this country a slave-owner.”
Douglass called the Fourth of July a hollow mockery in 1852, and nothing has changed except that the empire is now more corrupt, more unequal, and…
The same U.S. military that kidnapped President Maduro is now directing earthquake relief in Caracas, and if Haiti is any guide, that aid is really…
Keiko Fujimori finally won the Peruvian presidency with help from the U.S. ambassador, and her victory locks in another piece of the hard-right…
“If you rightly condemn Washington and Jefferson as loathsome oppressors of humanity, you are then obligated to purge the nation and world of the…
The same legal reasoning that enabled the theft of the Black Hills now enables presidents to launch wars anywhere in the world, and the Trump…
It's time to revisit America's heroic creation myth and what really happened in 1776, author-historian tells Salon.
OMNIBUS
Dimitri Lascaris speaks with Ajamu Baraka about Colombia's Presidential Election and Gustavo Petro's allegation that Israel tampered with the voting tabulation to bring about a razor-thin victory for a far-right, zionist millionaire. Dimitri and Ajamu also discuss Iran's efforts to negotiate a peace deal with the treacherous Trump regime.
Black Agenda Report editors Margaret Kimberley and Ann Garrison discuss the personal and institutional hypocrisy that allowed those who said, "All…
The following article by Carlos Martinez, co-editor of Friends of Socialist China and author of The East Is Still Red, examines the most far-reaching…
The United States announced that Kenya, with the permission of a comprador government, would serve as an Ebola quarantine hub for Americans, ignoring…
A one-year-old baby was shot dead by police, but corporate media shield the police and their barbaric actions with a passive voice.
Gaza proposals obtained by Drop Site show Trump’s board attempting to force a Palestinian surrender that Israel could not achieve in war.
Anti-ICE activists received lengthy prison terms — including a 100-year sentence — in the first major trial of the NSPM-7 era.
More Stories
Maurice Carney, Executive Director of Friends of the Congo, joins Black Agenda Report to discuss the latest outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease and explains what it tells us about conditions in that…
Leah Goodridge, a New York City-based attorney, housing advocate, and writer, is a member of the City Planning Commission. She joins Black Agenda Report from New York to discuss deed theft and…
Margaret Kimberley of Black Agenda Report speaks with Ahmed Kaballo, founder of Nairobi-based Sovereign Media, about the Africa Forward summit with France, the Pan-Africanism Summit Against…
Venezuela’s betrayal of Alex Saab in handing him over to the U.S. leaves little room for debate. The Bolivarian revolution has been seriously undermined and can only be revived by the Venezuelan…
Malcolm X understood that “oppressed peoples must commit themselves to radical political struggle in order to advance a dignified approach to human rights.” What’s needed is a bottom-up mass movement…
