| Black Agenda Report

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
The World Demands U.S. Out of the Middle East – Will the U.S. Listen?
29 Jan 2020
American troops in Iraq are at increasing risk every day the US stays in that sovereign nation. “The US will be faced with strong and legitimate popular armed resistance.”
Tim Anderson
What’s wrong with the IHRA “working definition” of Anti-Semitism?
29 Jan 2020
The idea that Israel cannot be targeted or criticized as a “racist endeavor” is an absurd suggestion. “Any state that practices ethnic cleansing and civilian massacres, based on racial ideology, can and should be criticized for such serious crimes.”
Matthew Miles Goodrich
The Forgotten Socialist History of Martin Luther King Jr.
29 Jan 2020
MLK was dreaming of a socialist future long before the tumultuous decade of the Sixties. “Capitalism has created conditions permitting necessities to be taken from the many to give luxuries to the few.”
Randal Maurice Jelks
Black Abolitionists Believed in Taking Up Arms
29 Jan 2020
Long before the Civil War, Black abolitionists shared the consensus that violence would be necessary to end slavery. “Kellie Carter Jackson constructs a bridge between slave rebellions and the armed self-defense of twentieth-century black radicals.” Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Cindy Milstein’s “Paths toward Utopia”
29 Jan 2020
The author believes we are at a crossroads between fascism and/or extinction, and a path of communal care. “The necessity of cooperation and solidarity is more apparent by the day.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Fikile Nxumalo’s “Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education”
29 Jan 2020
The author rejects ways of teaching that distort Black young people’s relationships with the natural world. “The book offers possibilities for how Black and Indigenous place relations can be at the center of teaching and learning.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
29 Jan 2020
This week readers discuss Democratic Party racism and the abuse of Martin Luther King’s legacy. We share your letters for “The Injustice of the Moment Is Not an Aberration” and “MLK and the Black Misleadership Class.”
Alice Speri
Cops and Spies Chase Blacks and Leftists While Violent Whites Grow Bolder
29 Jan 2020
The cops can’t find white terrorists in plain sight, but they have turned technology to the task of criminalizing Black and Left dissent. ‘The black identity extremism category was a product of the FBI’s imagination.” “Memphis also offers the most detailed picture we have of what domestic political…
Lauren Smith
Embassy Protectors: An Epic Act of Resistance & Trial of Our Times
29 Jan 2020
Their true crime is their brilliant defense of international law, and Venezuela’s sovereign right to self-determination against Yankee imperialism. “People of conscience must ensure all charges are dropped.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
They came 4 Moms 4 Housing
29 Jan 2020
Storming “ThTown’s” morning dew like badged vermin Creeping from bent mist morning light, just before five Barking cold commands in Pig Latin—or German? Capitalist property law’s such barbaric jive! Armed with aerosol bigotry, right from the can Battering doors as the banksters' blu klux klan