| Black Agenda Report

David Dayen
Puerto Rico Homeowners Brace for Another Disaster: Foreclosures
03 Jan 2018
“Maybe they believe the land is worth more than keeping people in the homes.”
Vijay Prashad
Concentration Camps for African Migrants Blocked from Entering Europe Are Popping Up Across Libya
03 Jan 2018
“The Europeans want to move their southern border from the northern edge of the Mediterranean Sea to the southern rim of the Sahara Desert.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor , Helen Epstein
Why Are Ugandan Troops Amassed at the Congo Border Again?
20 Dec 2017
“Rwandan dictator Kagame appears to be pursuing his own agenda in Congo by driving local people out and populating their land with newcomers.”
Democracy Now
Daniel Ellsberg: “Doomsday” is an “Actual War Plan”
13 Dec 2017
“This is the most evil plan that has ever existed. It’s insane.”
Auditi Guha
New Study Shows Flint Water Affects Baby Weight
13 Dec 2017
“It was a very sharp reduction in birth weight.”
Harvey Wasserman
Warring Visions of Puerto Rico's Future
13 Dec 2017
“This is an opportunity to make microgrids in Puerto Rico so they can be sustained in different areas.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Barbuda and Disaster Capitalism
06 Dec 2017
“Barbudans are rightly suspicious that ultimately their paradise of equality for all will be taken away in favor of capitalist predation.”
Vijay Prashad
Puerto Rico: Ruined Infrastructure and a Refugee Crisis
29 Nov 2017
“The plans for the rebuilding of Puerto Rico are similar to what was done in New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Neocolonial Kleptocracy and Clinton Connections
22 Nov 2017
“Rwanda remains the poorest country in East Africa, except for Burundi.”
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher, Ph.D.
“Our Agenda”
22 Nov 2017
“Black unbelonging — black Americans as historical outsiders — is at the heart of our Constitution.”