| Black Agenda Report

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Safe-States Strategy from Hell: Greens Respond to Progressive Left Dems
29 Jan 2020
Some Greens may fall for the “anybody blue will do” appeal, but most will not. “Some of us are re-registering just long enough to vote for Sanders in our state Democratic primaries.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Remember the Influence of Socialism on Martin Luther King Jr’s Legacy.
29 Jan 2020
King believed humanity could achieve a “higher synthesis” that rose above the social relations of capitalism and communism. “Black self-determination was seen by the ruling class as a great communist conspiracy.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Negroes for Bloomberg
29 Jan 2020
Chicago’s Bobby Rush and San Francisco’s London Breed have sold themselves to super-plutocrat Michael Bloomberg, the worst stop-and-frisker in history. “Bloomberg is motivated, not by a desire to be president himself, but by the need to stop Bernie Sanders.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“Progressive” Dems Ought to Divorce the Duopoly, Not Badger Greens
30 Jan 2020
The signers reveal themselves to be as fearful for the fate of the duopoly as the corporate shills they claim to oppose. “The Lords of Capital maintain their monopoly over electoral politics in the United States -- except for the Greens.”
Eugene Stovall
Privatizing Oakland Schools
04 Feb 2020
Eli Broad (rhymes with “toad”) conconcted a scheme to privatize Oakland’s public schools and produce a revenue stream for his billionaire cronies. “Operating unethically and illegally, Broad managers used their training to cripple and plunder Oakland’s schools.”
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Guaido’s Failed Foreign Tour Ends With a Flop
04 Feb 2020
As the Feb 11 court date approaches for the US activists that defended the Venezuelan embassy, would-be president Juan Guaido has been reduced to an evil clown. “The tour was a last-ditch effort to revive his dwindling coup.”
William Scarborough, Iván Arenas, and Amanda E. Lewis
Between the Great Migration and Growing Exodus: The Future of Black Chicago?
04 Feb 2020
Recent population trends indicate that the city may be at risk of losing its status as a Black mecca. “In some neighborhoods, gentrification appears to be a driving force. In others, the destruction of public housing played a more prominent role in population change.” Introduction
Linn Washington Jr.
N.J. historic preservation officials insult the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
04 Feb 2020
New Jersey was the site of a young Dr King’s very first formal protest and lawsuit, but the state refuses to recognize the events. “King plotted that first protest at a house in Camden.” A significant “first” usually merits the designation of historic. For example, the first formal protest against…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ben Conisbee Baer’s “Indigenous Vanguards”
04 Feb 2020
Spending time in worlds of the past opens a window on how things changed, or stubbornly remained unchanged. “Readers are challenged to see the past not as a closed book, something we have surpassed, but as a network of roads not taken.”
Alex Alston
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
04 Feb 2020
Black studies is a conceptual movement that is trying to catch up to it’s more sensual and less formal cousin, black music. “A globally legible or universally recognized bodily gesture, such as surrender through raised hands, becomes ‘illegible’ and ‘irrelevant’ on a black person.”