| Black Agenda Report

Dave Tell
How Poverty is Reshaping the Story of Emmett Till’s Murder
22 May 2019
Scholars continue to debate what, exactly, happened to Emmett Till, but a poor Black town is betting its future on one version of the story. “Who gets to decide what, exactly, happened?”
Mark P. Fancher
Socialism – The Litmus Test for Authentic African Leadership
22 May 2019
There is no better time than African Liberation Day to call out Africa’s imperialist stooges, lackeys and puppets. “There are far too many neo-colonial African leaders willing to dance to the African dependency tune.” A man lost in the desert needs water and lots of it. If instead, a rescuer gives…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Greg Shupak’s “The Wrong Story”
22 May 2019
American maneuvers in the Middle East have little to do with culture or religion and everything to do with capitalism. “Palestine-Israel should be presented as a story about one people colonizing another with the assistance of the world’s sole superpower.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Noura Erakat’s “Justice for Some”
22 May 2019
Sometimes what passes for international law can lead to unfair outcomes, as the mandate that facilitated the creation of Israel on Palestinian land. “The two-state solution has become dead letter.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
22 May 2019
This week the most talked about topic was war. Readers wrote in about “Where Have All The Anti-War Warriors Gone?” and “Freedom Rider:U.S. Wages War Against The World.”
Earl Hazell
MJ/Kelly, Wynton/West: Tour Guides of the House of Peter Pan
22 May 2019
An opera singer and artistic director sees the Black male genius as a window to America’s dark side. “We are Children of the Lie…voluntary slaves of the Pan’s foundational mental illness—white supremacy—generating all the others.”
Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Marcela Howelland Jessica González-Rojas
How the Promise of Roe v. Wade Left Women of Color Behind
22 May 2019
Roe has never been full of promise for women of color, immigrant women and women with low incomes, who also have the most to lose. “Legal abortion means little to communities without the ability to access it.” This article originally appeared in ColorLineson January 19, the…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Muellergate, A Report Review: Who Cooked Up the 'Russiagate' Conspiracy?
22 May 2019
Robert Mueller took two years to cook up a nothingburger, but we need to find out who conspired to wreck relations with Russia and censor the Left. “It’s as though Cointelpro and Operation Mockingbird never happened.” We need a bipartisan Muellergate investigation to determine who cooked up…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Corporate Media and the “Resistance” to Peace
22 May 2019
The “Resistance” to peace being waged by the capitalist class and the corporate media is the greatest threat faced by humanity today. “The corporate media has shaped the consciousness and behavior of the masses with clear directives from the U.S. military apparatus.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Abortion Rights and the Power of Protest
22 May 2019
An abortion rights crisis looms, but Americans have lost their fightng tools, lulled to sleep by the corporate fixers of the Democratic Party. “The response from the pro-choice community has been both weak and laughable.”