| Black Agenda Report

Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Bloomberg is Worse Than Trump
19 Feb 2020
Black elected officials will be silent when Bloomberg subjects the entire country to stop and frisk or some other horrible plan.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Danger and the Opportunity in the Democratic Party’s Red Baiting of Bernie Sanders
19 Feb 2020
The ruling class’ anti-communist attacks on the popular politician holds the danger of moving the left in an even more conservative direction.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
My Wise Country Cousin: Dem Wanna be Lakked by Mike
19 Feb 2020
$elections comin’ an’ Massa Mike playin’ Negroz fo’ chumps— Tolt Dem he’d hab dey pockets lookin’ lak dey got de mumps! Hmm, Massa Mikul cum ‘round wit his big ol’ sack ob monee
Kollibri terre Sonnenblume
Black America and the Presidents
19 Feb 2020
Every single US president—regardless of party—actively upheld white supremacy in the US.
Ashlie Sandoval
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
19 Feb 2020
An educator helps students navigate books that reveal Blackness as historicity, slavery as both obscured and ever-present, and the violence of race.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Shana Redmond’s “Everything Man”
19 Feb 2020
It takes many voices from a world of disciplines to tell the story of Paul Robeson, the supreme talent ad intellect that the US State attempted to erase from history.
Global Information Network
Nigeria Jailing Journalists
19 Feb 2020
Stories that embarrass high officials can earn reporters treason charges, imprisonment and death.
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.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Aishah Shahidah Simmons’ “Love WITH Accountability”
12 Feb 2020
Simmons explores ways we can hold harm-doers accountable without getting involved with the very state that brutalizes Black and other communities of color.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Bloomberg Becoming Oligarch-in-Chief of Democratic Party
06 Feb 2020
If Sanders wins the nomination, Michael Bloomberg and his filthy rich brethren are already preparing to fund and erect an alternative structure of dependable corporate governance.