| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Trump and Baltimore
31 Jul 2019
Anyone feeling the need to defend Baltimore from Trump’s opinions ought to talk about what really ails that city. “There is more reason to rise up in righteous indignation over the Keith Davis verdict than Trump’s latest rant.” There is only one person worthy of being defended in the wake of Donald…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Reparations Rising – With Permission from White Democrats
01 Aug 2019
Black people’s support for reparations has soared in sync with the concept’s receptivity among white Democrats and establishment Black politicians. “Nothing useful to the Black struggle will result from all this reparations-like drama if it remains within the Democratic Party’s corporate domain.”
Howie Hawkins
The Rich White Man’s Justice System Protects Trump and his Cronies
07 Aug 2019
Justice will have to be found outside the two-party system of corporate rule. “Democratic elites at the top of the foreign policy-making and military operations structures provided justifications and logistics for the crimes.”
Eoin Higgins
Data Shows How Bernie Dominates the Contributor Race
07 Aug 2019
Bernie Sanders’s is the individual donor king all across the country, except a few islands of wealth. “Nearly one out of every three donors who have given to any presidential campaign have donated to Sen. Bernie Sanders.” Individual donors to Democratic candidates for the party's 2020 presidential…
Thomas Meany
White Power: At Home and Abroad
07 Aug 2019
Where most people see a “lone shooter,” the armed White Power movement sees “leaderless resistance.” “For much of the 20th century, the struggles against communism and black progress were close to indistinguishable.”
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Popular Resistance Newsletter - Another Year Closer to Winning Medicare for All
07 Aug 2019
Democratic Party voters are showing that the momentum for Medicare for All may not be stoppable. “This is a movement that will not compromise in support of false solutions.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Chantal Gibson’s “How She Read”
07 Aug 2019
The author’s book is an exercise in excavating the imperialist ideologies in old primary school readers and vocabulary spellers. “I hope readers will un-learn hegemony.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is …
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Josef Sorett’s “Spirit in the Dark”
07 Aug 2019
When we are talking about religion, we are always already talking about race; and vice versa. “Religion and the arts are anything but mutually exclusive or inherently opposed to each other.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
07 Aug 2019
Today we discuss racism’s relationship to US empire and Nancy Pelosi’s role as opposition to Trump. We print your letters for “Descent into Barbarism: Silently Killing the Vulnerable” and “Nancy Pelosi: The leader of the ‘Hizb al-Shaitan
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
What Good Is a New Cold War Without a New Arm$ Race?
07 Aug 2019
The US and Russia are closer to annihilating each other and the world than ever before, but Democrats think Trump is too friendly with Putin. “Trump is pursuing probably the most aggressive foreign policy that any US president has pursued in a long time.”