| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Paul Kagame and His House Negro, Félix Tshisekedi
05 Jun 2019
The people of Congo will never forget that Paul Kagame brought death to more than 6 million of their mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters. “For the vast majority of the Congolese, Kagame will forever remain an enemy.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Elizabeth Warren Wants Green Bombs, not a Green New Deal
05 Jun 2019
Warren prides herself in fighting for a kinder capitalism but has no problem with a nasty, murderous imperialism. “Warren is decidedly to the right of Bernie Sanders on the issue of war and peace.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Lives Matter Founder Launches Huge Project to Shrink Black Lives
06 Jun 2019
Alicia Garza and her crew conducted what they claim is the biggest survey of Black political opinion ever -- but failed to ask a single question about foreign policy. “The surveyors were not interested in Black people’s views on U.S. military violence abroad, or the impact of U.S. policies on…
Tongo Eisen-Martin
Collateral White Skin
12 Jun 2019
Whiteness is practiced, not as a privilege, but rather a deputization. “The primary reality of an oppressive system is its military reality.” San Francisco had its prison walls all picked out; prepared to unveil its latest awkward interpretation of imperialism. Two police officers exit a…
Ken Morgan
Tariffs Or Free Trade Does Not Trump Imperialism
12 Jun 2019
We need to offer solidarity to fellow workers around the world and refuse to be suckered into the nationalist anti-free trade campaigns. “Demand the cancellation of third world debt.” Recently, President Trump imposed a tariff on China. Almost a month ago, Uncle Sam moved on the giant…
Celina della Croce
98.3 Percent of Ghana’s Gold Remains in the Hands of Multinational Corporations
12 Jun 2019
The amount of money pilfered by corrupt government officials pales in comparison to the wealth extracted by transnational corporations. “Fingers angrily pointed at corrupt governments, while the nations they govern are robbed blind by transnational corporations.”
Garrett Felber
Black Nationalism and Liberation
12 Jun 2019
We would be better served by understanding black nationalism as both liberative and anti-racist. “We must avoid the pitfalls of incessant claims of post-racialism that insist that to see race is to participate in racism.”
Pavan Kulkarni
After Massacre by Militia, Sudan’s Civilian Forces Reject Junta’s Legitimacy
12 Jun 2019
Amid a reign of terror, the Sudanese Professionals Association called on the international community to recognize it as the sole representative of the people. “The SPA also urged foreign powers to respect the country’s sovereignty and refrain from undertaking any action that might lead to a…
Pascal Robert
“The Black Godfather”: Clarence Avant and the Ruling Class Use of Black Pop Culture
12 Jun 2019
Clarence Avant mastered pimping out Black identity to normalize the functioning of a nation premised on the oppression of his fellow Black citizens. “The Black Misleadership Class clearly has a division in the entertainment industry.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Therí Pickens’s “Black Madness :: Mad Blackness”
12 Jun 2019
This book is dedicated to the Black mad and the mad Black everywhere. “The project works against the stagnancy of thought regarding racism and ableism, and asks folks to rethink what radicality looks like.”