| Black Agenda Report

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The State's Constant Attack on Black Liberation
12 Jul 2023
Indictments, disruptions, arrests, defamation, incarceration and even assassination are the weapons used to discredit Black people who act in opposition to the system and who call for liberation. They will always be targets of state persecution and prosecution.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: American Imperialism and the British West Indies, Claudia Jones, 1958
12 Jul 2023
Claudia Jones reminds us of the progressive potential of the failed West Indies Federation. But her analysis unwittingly anticipated the rise of its bourgeois descendant, CARICOM.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The UK-Rwanda Pact to Keep Migrants from Crossing the English Channel
12 Jul 2023
The UK is spearheading a European drive to outsource migrants to Rwanda.
Eugene Puryear
Eritrea: The Story You Don't Hear
19 Jul 2023
Eritrea is an African success story. The nation provides for its peoples needs despite the impact of sanctions imposed by the west which are meant to undermine its sovereignty.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Playing ‘SCOTUS Says’ to death?
19 Jul 2023
Playing ‘SCOTUS Says’ to death? Some say SCOTUS was derived from the Freak word SCROTUM; and means sweaty sack; musty, itchy, bag, or pouch. Ouch! Others say SCOTUS is a sack of nuts dangling in the den of dark money. Low-hanging fruit—between two white columns of justice! Some say SCOTUS means…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Ampson Hagan
19 Jul 2023
This week’s featured scholar is Ampson Hagan. Hagan is Dean's Research Associate Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University. His article is “Coloniality of Waithood: Africa’s Wait for COVID-19 Vaccines amid COVAX and TRIPS.”
Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team
Black Alliance for Peace Once Again Calls on International Community To Reject U.S./U.N./CARICOM Plan for An Armed Intervention of Haiti
19 Jul 2023
All of Haiti's ills stem from interventions, invasions and interference in its affairs. The new call for a US/UN/CARICOM invasion is part of a long running plan to undermine the sovereignty of the nation that rose from Black revolution. The Haitian people want freedom.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Who Are the Enemies of Affirmative Action? Gerald Horne, 1980
19 Jul 2023
The enemies of affirmative action programs are not just slick conservatives and vulgar racists, but also greasy liberals, argues Gerald Horne. And their efforts to dismantle such programs began as soon as they were enacted.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Kagame and Other Stooges Do U.S. Bidding in Haiti
19 Jul 2023
The U.S. is committed to invading Haiti but needs Black “leaders” to give them cover. They pressured Caribbean nations to be the face of intervention and called on Rwanda’s Paul Kagame to be the African diaspora front man.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Haitians Protest UN Occupation and Pending Foreign “Intervention”
19 Jul 2023
Haitians protest oligarchic rule, UN occupation, and foreign military "intervention."