| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Military Spending and the Never-ending Trump Diversion
17 Apr 2019
No sector has benefited more from the Trump presidency than the military/industrial complex -- with lots of help from the Democrats. “Democrats and Republicans are both committed to the dictatorship of capitalist ruling class and global full spectrum dominance by the U.S.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The “Resistance” is Silent on Julian Assange
17 Apr 2019
Liberals are just as much true believers in imperialism as the right wing they claim to oppose. “Attacking the person who revealed war crimes is compliance in the service of the state.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
for Ayat
17 Apr 2019
Hey Ayat, we were an odd couple, haunting the library for magical books, deciding how and where we wanted to work… Our symbiosis Your linguistic ticket to 4th grade status— and my meal ticket
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Terri Sewell, the Worst of the Black Caucus, Subverts $15 Wage Bill
18 Apr 2019
Selma, Alabama, has produced the most reactionary Black Congressperson in modern times, part of the Democratic Party’s increasing servitude to corporate interests. “Sewell’s counter-legislation would neuter the Sanders bill in most of the country.”
T.P. Wilkinson
The Expense of the American Dream
24 Apr 2019
Professor Gerald Horne shows that the Dark Continent was Europe, not Africa. “The slogans liberté, egalité et fraternité were fashioned to unite Europeans against Africans, not with them.” The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in…
Carlos Aznárez
“Imperialism Does Not Understand the Resistance of the Venezuelan People”
24 Apr 2019
Even the loss of the equivalent of a full year’s economic production due to US aggression has not broken the people’s will. “A new international monetary system is advancing, apparently with a gold backing.”
Bill Ayers
Lawyers for the Left: In the Courts, In the Streets, and on the Air
24 Apr 2019
People’s lawyers found the cracks and searched out open spaces in the law. “The law is constructed in the service of whatever social/economic system created it.”
The Political Theology Network
Political Theology Network Seeks Radical Anti-Imperial Perspectives on Religion and Politics
24 Apr 2019
The upcoming conference aims to bring together scholars, activists, and artists motivated by a concern for justice. “We are looking for projects that challenge and transform conversations about political theology.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kinohi Nishikawa’s “Street Players”
24 Apr 2019
The question is not Who stole Black pulp fiction, but Who owned and profited from it. “Social movement and popular culture are not the same thing.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: David Correia and Tyler Wall’s“Police: A Field Guide”
24 Apr 2019
“The police” is a regime of state violence that is designed to have freedom from the “rule of law.” “Cops don’t just patrol our streets, they patrol the language we use to understand police.”