| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
A (Re)Born National “Black and Left-Led” Organization Fights for Community Control of Police
28 Nov 2019
On the momentum of Chicago’s anti-police movement – the most advanced in the nation – the city’s Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression has gone national after a highly successful conference. “This movement will be ‘black-led and left-led.’”
Nikhil Pal Singh
The Pervasive Power of the Settler Mindset
04 Dec 2019
The destructive premise at the core of the American settler narrative is that freedom is built upon the violent elimination of other peoples. “The challenges of undoing settler ethics have never been higher.
review by Michael Steven Smith
The Trials of Julian Assange
04 Dec 2019
A new book offers a sweeping defense of the imprisoned Wikileaks publisher. “The prosecution of Assange is the most significant challenge to a free press in our lifetimes.” Whistle-blowing, truth-telling journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange now sits in solitary confinement in…
Enzo Calandra
Ukrainian Roulette: The “Ukrainegate” Gamble
04 Dec 2019
Liberals have enlisted the CIA to repudiate a clearly obscene and grotesque president because they themselves are obscene and grotesque in many of the same ways. “Trump’s more serious violations are not pursued as crimes because they are common practice by both the liberal and conservative parties…
Zanga Chimombo
Brown Privilege in Africa
04 Dec 2019
Inadequate attention seems to have been paid to the significance of racial miscegenation (or us “in-betweeners”) in the process of domination. “It is unfashionable to be associated with anything African at the moment.”
Vijay Prashad
How to Commit War Crimes – and Get Away With It
04 Dec 2019
Not only should war crimes charges be brought against the US and UK, but these aggressor nations’ political leaders should face imprisonment. “There have been no serious ICC investigations of any power that is closely aligned with the United States.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nolan Cabrera’s “White Guys on Campus”
04 Dec 2019
Cabrera’s book directly pushes against the notion that White racism only exists within “ignorant” White people or “rednecks” and “hillbillies.” “Racism on college campuses is even more endemic than originally thought.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Leah Vernon’s “Unashamed”
04 Dec 2019
A coming of age story of a Black Muslim girl living in America during trying social and political times. “Self-love is something that you have be working at each and every day.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
04 Dec 2019
This time readers talked about overcoming ingrained racism and the possibilities of a Bernie Sanders presidency. We share letters for “The Origins of White Supremacy” and “Barack Obama and the Ruling Class Target the Black Vote to Smother Sanders
Michael Barajas
Where the Bodies Are Buried
04 Dec 2019
Descendants of survivors of a 1910 massacre of Blacks in East Texas vow not to rest until the victims bodies have been found. “The killings in Slocum were emblematic of the kind of white-on-black violence that shaped the region and the state.”