| Black Agenda Report

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The U.S. Has Been Eclipsed in Every Sphere But War
16 May 2019
US rulers promised that technology would bring the return of the millions of jobs that were outsourced to low-wage countries, but America has lost the hi-tech race and excels only in weapons of war
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Book Review: The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood
15 May 2019
The vulnerability of Black men and boys in the U.S.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
2020 Elections: Its Militarism and the Military Budget Stupid!
15 May 2019
The Trump military budget is more than a third higher than five years ago, while cutting non-defense programs by 9 percent– but the corporate media ignore the issue and Democratic candidates are si
Cornel West and Deborah Chasman
Cornel West Discusses Barriers to Black Truth-Telling in America
15 May 2019
Establishment publishing houses are a lot more “colorful” than they used to be, but that doesn’t mean they care about the poor and imprisoned, says the nation’s most prominent Black intellectual.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
15 May 2019
This week the hypocrisy of Democratic Party presidential candidates and the reality behind the nonprofit industrial complex were topics on your minds. Readers wrote about “
Calvin Warren
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Achille Mbembe's "Critique of Black Reason" (Part 3)
15 May 2019
Mbembe invites us to rethink the foundation of thought upon which the world is predicated.
Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg
In Baltimore, Police Officers Are the Bad Guys With Guns
15 May 2019
Plainclothes police officers are waging war on citizens. “They often planted guns and resold narcotics.”
Jeff Bryant
Charter School Support Slipping Among Democrats
15 May 2019
Barack Obama was the nation’s most pro-charter president, but much of his party has grown leery of them.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Mothers Dying in US
08 May 2019
Only a social and economic transformation can lift Black America to a First World state of well-being. Black health requires Black Power.
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Regime Change Coming Home?
08 May 2019
Limbo! How low can we go— Barr is set so low in its swamp draining elephantine donkey dung; We straddle razor blades between reich/revolution: