Since 2006 our mission at Black Agenda Report has been to challenge the current crop of black political and cultural misleaders with a vision of a new black politics of struggle, one that takes into account class differences among blacks so as to confont the prison state, and deal with the many other oppressive aspects of everyday black life which our misleaders ignore.
On Friday, October 12 most of the Black Agenda Report team gathered at Harlem's historic Riverside Church to celebrate our sixth anniversary. We were joined by Dr. Cornel West, who took part in an extended dialog with BAR executive editor Glen Ford, and a panel discussion featuring Margaret Kimberley, Jemima Pierre, Richard Wolff, P. Sainaith, Anthony Monteiro and Marsha Coleman-Adebayo.
The celebration was organized and hosted by BAR's Nellie Hester Bailey, and sponsored by Riverside Church's Social Justice Ministry.
Slavery is everywhere banned, but the ethos of the slave trade thrives in the baby-buying business.
The illegal slave trade continued right up to the Civil War, requiring US authorities to ârecaptureâ and then expel the human cargo.
Bernie Sanders is slightly more popular among black Democratic voters than white ones.
Teachers in the school district that was supposed to be the model for education reform just rebelledâand won.
Activists keep winding up dead under questionable circumstances, but Black St. Louis is a stressful and violent place.
