| Black Agenda Report

BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Olympics of Lying: Lipsticking a pig
09 Sep 2020
Red, white, blue burning crosses light up Capitalist Hill, War House, White Supreme Court sky. A 500 ft phallic symbol middle fingers poor People pinned down resisting crossfire: Pandemic, Depression, Mengele Medicine… It’s the Orange Age Olympics of Lying! Let the games begin—again and…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
It’s Time to Acknowledge Hutu Genocide and Rwandan Occupation of DR Congo
09 Sep 2020
“Global power elites are silent about Hutu genocide and Rwanda’s ongoing occupation of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),” writes Ann Garrison, “because it has served their interests for many years." “The truth would embarrass them.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The NBA Strike Brings the Counterinsurgency War on Black Liberation Movement to Basketball
09 Sep 2020
When NBA players threatened to disrupt business as usual the ruling class deployed perhaps its most effective weapon of counterinsurgency: Barack Obama. “The system is organized to strangle movements before they emerge.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Losers, Suckers and War
09 Sep 2020
Democrats are up in arms over Trump’s latest mouth-burst, but the truth is that both corporate parties have made the people suckers for endless, “bipartisan” wars. “The suckers were always those who could not get out of military service when there was still a draft.’
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Sept 19: A Nationwide Day of Protest, and of Dialogue on Community Control of Police
10 Sep 2020
Community control puts us on the path to both defunding and abolishing the police – so why are many Black Lives Matter chapters withholding support? The Black masses want justice, security and democracy (also known as “self-determination”) to be part of the equation.”
King Downing and Frances Madeson
Labor Must Make Defense of Black Lives Its Own Imperative
16 Sep 2020
Some local unions have started to stand up to militias in much the same way as they have against police brutality. “Members, especially Black members who are suffering, are going to have to refuse to pay dues to an organization that refuses to share our voice with the world.”
Daniel Carpenter
American Democracy Is in the Mail
16 Sep 2020
The post office could again become a platform for savings banks . while advancing broadband access to underserved communities “While the potential for discriminatory and racialized use of criminal codes demands interrogation, the postal inspection remains a significant line of defense against the…
y Joaquin Sapien, Topher Sanders, Nate Schweber and Daniel Zender
NYPD Promoted Cop Accused of Vicious Strip Searches of Over a Dozen Black and Latino Men
16 Sep 2020
Of at least 77 allegations made against McCormack in 26 separate CCRB complaints, 29 were unsubstantiated; five were ‘unfounded.’” “The men said Assistant Chief Christopher McCormack touched them inappropriately during searches or ordered others to do so.”
Vijay Prashad
Multinationals and Oil Companies Are Imposing Their Greed on Mozambique
16 Sep 2020
IMF financing has impoverished Mozambique’s once proudly revolutionary government, forcing it to hire mercenaries to put down rebellion. “The introduction of the energy firms, rather than bringing prosperity to the people, says a study, ‘appears to have brought discontent.’”
Julian Vigo
Water Poverty and the Growing Conflict between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia
16 Sep 2020
The Ethiopian government made a strategic decision to control most of the Nile River that flows into Egypt and Sudan. “The GERD will be Africa's largest hydroelectric plant when it comes into full operation.”