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by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
What Would A Real Discussion on Reparations Look Like? Have We Ever Had One?
28 Jan 2016
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon What would a serious discussion on reparations look like? Will anybody ever come up with a realistic roadmap to get there, or is reparations talk just that –- all talk? Is reparations an answer to class politics, or is it the politics of a particular class? And…
Telesur
Tillerson Threatens Regime Change in Venezuela
08 Aug 2017
by TeleSur President Trump’s Secretary of State has made it explicitly clear that the U.S. wants regime change in Venezuela. The country is under “imperialist attack,” said President Nicolás Maduro, whose personal assets have been targeted. “I feel proud to be sanctioned, Mister Imperialist Donald…
Norman Otis Richmond aka Jalal’
Richard B. Moore: “Dogs and Slaves are Named by Their Masters; Free Men Name Themselves!"
08 Aug 2017
by Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali
Olivia Paschal
The Latest Challenges to the South's Felony Disenfranchisement Laws
08 Aug 2017
by Olivia Paschal
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Tell Trump, and the Democrats, Too: We Demand Black Community Control of the Police
03 Aug 2017
Donald Trump’s outrageous incitement of police brutality serves the purposes of corporate reformers, who then set the bar of people’s demands even lower. If “anything is better than Trump,” then the people are urged to accept any crumb masquerading as “reform” that is offered. Instead of ‘Power to…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Washington: A One Party State
02 Aug 2017
The two corporate parties agree on almost everything of substance. “The one-party state doesn't negotiate police brutality, mass incarceration, or any other manifestation of white supremacy. Nor does it think twice before enforcing sanctions on Syria or Venezuela.” They can’t change Obamacare,…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
US and UK Fund Kagame’s Killing Fields: An Interview with David Himbara
02 Aug 2017
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame will stage sham elections, this week, to keep himself in power for another term. He has already arranged to stay in office until 2034, if he chooses. Those who challenge the vote count often wind up dead, or in prison, like Victoire…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Lie of Academic Freedom
02 Aug 2017
Scholars of color have become easy targets for right wing internet trolls and “any whining white person with a gripe.” University campuses claim to be bastions of freedom of speech and inquiry – unless you are of the wrong political persuasion, color or religion. “People who call out white…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
It's Getting Real – Google Censors the Left. And Us.
03 Aug 2017
Conclusive evidence exists that Google is suppressing public access to socialist and left wing websites, almost certainly including Black Agenda Report. In fact, Black Agenda Report is by all accounts the ONLY black owned, run and oriented left web site so targeted. Not Blavity. Not theRoot, which…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Congo Genocide, 5.4 Million Dead: An Interview with Sylvestre Mido
09 Aug 2017
It's Congo Genocide Week, the anniversary of the 1998 invasion of the Congo by the US puppet armies of Rwanda and Uganda. Since then 5.4 million Congolese have perished. Africa reporter Ann Garrison talks to Sylvestre Mido of Genecost about the invasion and its consequences almost two decades on.