The New Dark Age

18 September 2019 — Black Agenda Report

Believe Absolutely Nothing the US Government and Media Say About…Anything

Glen Ford, BAR executive editor
In any alliance with corporate oppression and militarism, Black America
squanders reservoirs of respect among the Earth’s peoples. We betray
ourselves and become Black Gringos.

Freedom Rider: The Electability Canard

Margaret Kimberley, BAR editor and senior columnist
Hapless Joe Biden has always failed in his presidential bids, but is
hyped as supremely “electable” this time around because Democratic
elites fear and loath Bernie Sanders.

Death and Despair, But Can It Foster Class Unity?

Danny Haiphong, BAR contributor
Self-determination is still an unknown concept to many despite the
efforts of the movement for Black lives and related organizations.

Black Agenda Report’s 13th Anniversary: An Evening of Information and Inspiration for Liberation, and a Tribute to Co-Founder Bruce Dixon

BAR staff
Black Agenda Report’s 13th Anniversary: An Evening of Information and
Inspiration for Liberation, and a Tribute to Co-Founder Bruce Dixon

Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 16, 2019

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Police Killings of Blacks Explode in Bolsonaro’s Brazil / Blacks Pay
High Price for Bad Healthcare / US Schools are a “Carceral” and
“Punitive Landscape”

Biden and the Black Vote

Ann Garrison, BAR contributor
Older Black voters appear to buy into the idea of Biden’s
“electability,” a farce engineered by Democratic elites that is likely
to give us four more years of Trump.

Slick Willy and the sandwiches

BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Slick Willy said the sandwiches
reminded him of sdrop drills after Hiroshima
and Nagasaki; and niggers knew their place

Letters from Our Readers

Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
This week you wrote back about Hollywood imperial propaganda and the firing of John Bolton.

BAR Book Forum: Adia Benton’s “HIV Exceptionalism”

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
This book offers lessons for people interested in organizing around health status, for building health systems.

BAR Book Forum: Patricia Pinho’s “Mapping Diaspora”

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
It’s good that African Americans lobby on behalf of Afro-Brazilians, but
this should not result in Black Americans becoming leaders of Black
Brazilian advancement.

Warmongering Democratic Candidates for President

Glen Ford, BAR executive editor
Not one Democrat on the stage in Houston objected to Washington’s
economic warfare and constant subversion and military threats against
Venezuela.

US Schools are a “Carceral” and “Punitive Landscape”

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
For students of color in the US, schooling has long been a “carceral condition,” said Connie Wun, a researcher and advocate for women and girls, who wrote an influential article titled, “Racialized and Gendered Violence Permeates School Discipline.” “We now have to think about the architecture of the school as a punitive landscape where students are subjected to surveillance cameras” and more police on campus,” said Wun.

Blacks Pay High Price for Bad Healthcare

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Dr Leslie Hinkson, author of “Subprime Health: Debt and Race in US Medicine,” said Black people “get bad care, and that not only leads to further undermining of their health, but they also ultimately wind up having to pay more for it.”

Police Killings of Blacks Explode in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
In just three months, police in Rio de Janeiro killed 434 people, most of them young Black men. Joao Costa Vargas, professor of anthropology at the University of California at Riverside and author of “The Denial of Anti-Blackness,” blames President Jair Bolsonaro, who claimed that the former Workers Party government was “too weak on crime,” and promised that he would make Brazil “white again.” Bolsonaro is often called “Brazil’s Trump.”

How to Find a Tiger in Africa: Searching for Agostinho Neto (1922 –1979)

T.P. Wilkinson
The history of liberated Angola, like the history of the world, cannot be told by humanity’s oppressors.

“Operation Brown Nose” — U.S. Aids French Dirty Work in Africa

Mark P. Fancher
The U.S. has gone extra miles to support French military efforts to protect uranium mining in Niger.

Racial Violence in Black and White

Benjamin Balthaser
From photos of lynchers to videos of brutal cops, there is a radical
heritage of using images of violence as instruments of critique.

US and Latin American Allies Move Towards Military Assault on Venezuela

Marco Teruggi
Under sustained pressure from Washington, a bloc of rightwing
governments has interpreted a regional treaty as authorizing military
force against Venezuela.

Failures of The US Left

Erica Caines
The “US Left” conveniently ignores that you can’t be a socialist and not also be anti-imperialist.