| Black Agenda Report

Chelli Stanley
The Origins of White Supremacy
27 Nov 2019
White supremacy is an incredibly insincere distraction that tries to erase the histories of White, Black, and Red peoples. “Many White people seem to have forgotten what happened to them.”
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
The Whole Damn System is Guilty as Hell: Taking Control of the Police
27 Nov 2019
Democratic community control of the police transforms the power dynamic between police and citizens. “One thousand people attended the re-founding of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression where the centerpiece of discussion was democratic control of the police.
Tiana Reid
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
27 Nov 2019
For me, the most generative way to read, the most thorough, is to teach a text, to read in communion with others. “How is Marx read, yes, but also, how does Marx read?”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Gary Phillip’s “The Be-Bop Barbarians”
27 Nov 2019
This book looks at the collision of race and class in a repressive time, in this case the late 1950s. “The groove is in the doing, hard driving bop and hard driving dreams.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
27 Nov 2019
Readers wanted to discuss police accountability, the impeachment hearings, the electoral college, and Barack Obama in this round of feedback. We print your letters for “When Even The FBI Can’t Hold Police Accountable, How Can Anyone Else?,” “Freedom Rider: Ukrainegate Farce…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The End of American Thanksgivings: A Cause for Universal Rejoicing
27 Nov 2019
The mythology that Thanksgiving nurtures is itself inherently evil. This article first appeared in the November 27, 2003 issue of The Black Commentator. “The Mayflower’s cultural heirs are programmed to find glory In their own depravity and savagery in their most helpless victims.”
Mark P. Fancher
Give No Thanks for Settlers’ Savagery
27 Nov 2019
The peculiar national holiday is a celebration of white settler conquest – a whitewashing of unspeakable crimes. “Denial is facilitated by an extensive and elaborate collection of myths.”
Álvaro García Linera
Bolivia Coup: Hatred of the Indian
27 Nov 2019
How did the traditional middle class incubate so much hatred and resentment towards the people, leading them to embrace racialized fascism centered on the Indian as the enemy? “Racial supremacy is something that is not rationalized. It lives as a tattoo of the colonial history.” The author is the…
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
count ALL votes
27 Nov 2019
POW…POW…POW…POW… My leaders were voted out of office with hot lead ballots: red runoffs in driveways, beds, ballroom floors, on balconies, and college campuses. Mentioning the masked man the same breath’s an affront! Now, all that remains are sleazy senators, corrupt congressmen— strings…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Barack Obama and the Ruling Class Target the Black Vote to Smother Sanders
27 Nov 2019
Obama’s principle task is to ensure sure that Black Americans do not vote in the direction of single-payer healthcare and housing for all. “The ruling class needs Obama as an adviser and bully of the Black vote.”