| Black Agenda Report

Arnold August
Genocide as the Principal Cause of the Democrat’s Crushing Defeat
04 Dec 2024
While genocide is a clear cause of the democrats' defeat, economic issues are usually mentioned. What lingers behind the significance of the “it’s the economy” narrative?
Black Alliance For Peace
No Matter Who Sits in the White Peoples’ House, the War Being Waged by the U.S. Colonial/Capitalist Class Against the Black Colonized Working Class and All Oppressed Peoples and Nations Will Continue
20 Nov 2024
“Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...”
Malaika Jabali
In Milwaukee, Many Black Voters Aren’t On Board With Either Party
31 Jul 2024
The city’s abstainers could determine who wins Wisconsin, a critical swing state, this November.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
War, Genocide and Coups: Biden/Harris and The Irreversible Crisis of Neoliberal Fake Democracy
24 Jul 2024
The Imperialist chickens have come home to roost.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
For African/Black Working Class and Colonized Peoples, Midterm Elections in the U.S. Offer No Relief from War, Repression and Capitalist Misery
10 Jul 2024
The 50-year-old neo-liberal agenda explains why political choices in this country provide little change that benefits the masses of people. The recent midterm election results will not bring about an…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Democratic Party Betrayal, Abortion, and the Supreme Court
08 Dec 2021
Democrats have been fooled into thinking that only the courts can protect abortion rights. In fact, legislation could protect abortion permanently, but their party has refused to do that.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Elections and the Illusion of Black Political Power
03 Nov 2021
Black politicians may be openly conservative or pretend leftists but their constituents rarely get what they need.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Biden is No FDR and Build Back Better Legislation Proves It
27 Oct 2021
The idea that Joe Biden is the "most progressive president since FDR" is a propaganda device meant to quiet the Democratic Party left and force them to stand down.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Senators Bonnie and Clyde - 1% soldiers of fortune
27 Oct 2021
Senators Bonnie and Clyde—
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Build Back Better Legislation: New Keynesianism or Neoliberal Public Relations Stunt?
06 Oct 2021
Some provisions of Biden’s “Build Back Better” legislation benefit the masses of Black people, but this legislation is a bare minimum effort to blunt some of the sharpest contradictions of the