| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Malcolm, Russiagate and the FBI
23 May 2019
NBC is hawking a wild tale about Black Identity Extremists, scheming Russians, and military training camps in Africa. “By the FBI’s definition, damn near all Black folks are Black Identity Extremists.”
People’s Dispatch staff
Atlanta Jail to be Shut Due to Community Mobilization
29 May 2019
Instead of ensuring public safety for all citizens, the jail wrongfully imprisons and abuses people of color. “The Close the Jail campaign was spearheaded by the organization Women on the Rise and the Racial Justice Action Center.”
Riva Enteen
National Lawyers Guild Echoes Smear Campaign Against Julian Assange
29 May 2019
The Trump-era brought in a new McCarthyism to which the Guild, shockingly, has fallen prey. “Assange was a hero to the Guild when he exposed Bush's war crimes, but is now vilified because he's seen as hurting Clinton.”
Carol A. Stabile
How the Communist Blacklist Shaped the Entertainment Industry As We Know It
29 May 2019
Avoid anything that could be construed as progressive or risk never working in television again. “To be an intellectual, like being black, was to be regarded as a potential subversive.” The following is excerpted from MS. Stabile’s book, “The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist…
Dr. Johnny E. Williams
Parallels Between Black and Palestinian Struggles
29 May 2019
Blacks and Palestinians struggle against the same global matrix of interlocking oppressions. “Just as the US Black midleadership class accommodate systemic white racism, the Palestinian misleadership class grease the gears of Israeli apartheid.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Howard Waitzkin’s “Health Care Under the Knife”
29 May 2019
As global capitalism slowly withers, a non-exploitative health care system has entered the realm of the possible. “Capitalist health care, as well as the adverse health outcomes that capitalism generates, will not improve substantially until we change the global capitalist system.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Maryann Erigha’s “Hollywood Jim Crow”
29 May 2019
White supremacy in Hollywood operates on the premise that Black movies, directors, and stars are “unbankable”—or not profitable. “To Hollywood executives, race is an expression of economic potential and cultural appeal.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Russiagate, Like Count Dracula, Will Never End
29 May 2019
Are the Democrats serious? Or just mortified, like most vampires, by the light of day? “The current state of US-Russian relations is more perilous than any moments of the First Cold War, including the Cuban Missile Crisis.” “Russiagate, like Count Dracula, will never end because new political blood…
Walter Johnson
To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice
29 May 2019
The history of racial capitalism is a history of wages as well as whips, of factories as well as plantations, of whiteness as well as blackness, of “freedom” as well as slavery. This forum is featured in Boston Review's print issue, Race Capitalism Justice. In Memory of Cedric Robinson (…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Corporate Media Cold Warriors Smear Sanders and Gabbard as Traitors to Empire
29 May 2019
Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard unsettle the oligarchs because their policy positions are dangerously desired yet unobtainable under the current arrangement of society. “We should expect that Gabbard and Sanders will eventually concede to the Democrats once they are driven from the race.”