Wednesday, 15 March 2023 — Black Agenda Report

Farewell, Senior Brother: In Memory of Kevin Alexander Gray
Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor
Kevin Alexander Gray was a contributor and good friend to the Black Agenda Report team. His passing is a huge loss to BAR, and to the Black liberation movement. Dr. Jemima Pierre shares her remembrances of a family man, movement leader, author, and restauranteur.

China, Covid Origins, and War Propaganda
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
A human cause of covid-19 is possible, but anti-China rhetoric is war propaganda, not scientific evidence.

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Wednesday, 8 March 2023 — Black Agenda Report

How Comrades Revealed the Existence of COINTELPRO
Margaret Kimberley
On March 8, 1971 a brave group of people revealed the extent of FBI spying, harassment and even the killings of US citizens. More than 50 years later we would do well to remember the significance of their actions.

EDITORIAL Dedicated to Women in Struggle, African Agenda, 1974
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Revisiting a 1974 editorial on Black women and the international struggle against patriarchy, racism, imperialism, and capitalism on International Women’s Day.

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Wednesday, 1 March 2023 — Black Agenda Report

East Palestine, Ohio and the Oligarchy
Margaret Kimberley
A freight train derailment brought environmental catastrophe to a small Ohio town. While the circumstances are somewhat unique, events there followed a predictable pattern in a country run by and for the ruling class.

ESSAY: Canada in the Caribbean, Caribbean International Service Bureau, 1971
Editors, Black Agenda Review
A 1971 statement shines a bright white light on the long history of Canadian imperialism in the Caribbean.

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Wednesday, 22 February 2023 — Black Agenda Report

Ukraine 2023: Black Agenda Report Special Issue
The Editors
This issue of Black Agenda Report focuses on the U.S. role in the Ukraine crisis. The second phase of the war in Ukraine that brought a direct confrontation between Ukrainian military forces and Russia is approaching its one-year anniversary. We are publishing two new articles, “Black Politics and Ukraine” and “Why and How to End the War in Ukraine.” BAR is also reprinting two articles, here and here, that capture the complex economic and geo-political interests that were driving the conflict. Both articles grounded their analysis in the concrete economic and political interests locked in combat as opposed to the liberal focus on what was in the heads of Putin, Biden and Zelensky that characterizes so much of mainstream analysis and has led to the confusion we see around Ukraine today.

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Wednesday, 15 February 2023 — Black Agenda Report

Did the US Blow Up Nord Stream If There is No Media to Report It?
Margaret Kimberley
A respected investigative journalist explains how the U.S. sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines. But corporate media working in service to the state ignore the story and endanger the world.

INTERVIEW: A Voice from the Monster: Charlene Mitchell in Tricontinental, 1971
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
A 1971 interview with the late Charlene Mitchell reminds us of both the need for Black radical struggle against capitalism, militarism, and racism, and the contradictions of inter-racial organizing around US foreign and domestic terror.

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Wednesday, 1 February 2023 — Black Agenda Report

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The US Continues Escalating in Ukraine
Margaret Kimberley
The U.S. got more than it bargained for after instigating the Ukrainian conflict. The Biden foreign policy team grows more desperate, and their plans become more dangerous as they reckon with the unintended consequences of their actions.

EXCERPT: Howard University: Every Black Thing and Its Opposite, Kwame Ture
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Kwame Ture reminds us that the Black university is a place of contradictions – and a potential site of struggle.

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Wednesday, 25 January 2023 — Black Agenda Report

STATEMENT: On Abortion, Shirley Chisholm, December 3, 1969
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
In the wake of the would-be fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Shirley Chisholm’s 1969 statement on abortion is bold, progressive, unsentimental – and necessary.

Cop City Kills Before It Opens
Margaret Kimberley
What could possibly go wrong with a $90 million, 85-acre police training ground that the community doesn’t want? Someone could be killed, and that happened before Atlanta’s awful Cop City project has even been built.

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Wednesday, 11 January 2023 — Black Agenda Report

The Vote for House Speaker Obscured Democratic Treachery Margaret Kimberley House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s need for 15 rounds of voting from his party is viewed with alarm or humor. But the right wing proved that activists win if they make demands. Democrats have no members brave enough to confront leadership, and the people’s needs go unmet.

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Wednesday, 4 January 2023 — Black Agenda Report

White Lives Matter More in Ukraine
Margaret Kimberley
The open white supremacy and racism exhibited in Ukraine are conveniently swept under the rug. Nazis are bad, unless they serve the interests of the U.S. state.

DECLARATION: The Commander in Chief, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, to the People of Hayti, Gonaives, January 1, 1804
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
A round-up of The Black Agenda Review’s posts from 2022 – and a reprint of Haiti’s January 1, 1804 declaration of independence.

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Wednesday, 14 December 2022 — Black Agenda Report

Brittney Griner and the U.S. State
Margaret Kimberley
Brittney Griner’s ordeal in Russia is over. But she has been secreted away for “reintegration” and the U.S. continues its own brand of international hostage taking.

ESSAY: Negroes Speak of War, Langston Hughes, 1933
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
What benefits do Black folk get by endorsing or participating in the white man’s war? Revisiting an anti-war statement by Langston Hughes.

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Wednesday, 7 December 2022 — Black Agenda Report

Hakeem Jeffries and the Railroad Workers
Margaret Kimberley
A new Black “first” came along at the same moment that the Democratic Party showed itself to be a servant of the ruling classes. Hakeem Jeffries is a very willing tool of powerful people. There is no reason to celebrate his ascension to the House Minority Leader position.

ESSAY: Labor, Neoliberalism, and the 2004 Coup in Haiti, Jeb Sprague, 2008
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
What role did labor play in the 2004 coup in Haiti? A 2008 essay illuminates the convergence of labor politics, neoliberal policy, and imperial malfeasance.

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Wednesday, 30 November 2022 — — Black Agenda Report

EXCERPT: Brussels Conference Act of 1890
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
The 1890 Brussels Act provided Europeans with the legal and humanitarian justification for the colonization of Africa. Why have so few heard of it?

The Crisis of Western Imperialism and the Imperative of War and Repression
Ajamu Baraka
The world as we know it must change. Humanity cannot survive under imperialist and capitalist structures.

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Wednesday, 23 November 2022 — — Black Agenda Report

Xi Jinping, Justin Trudeau and White Supremacist Ideology
Margaret Kimberley
Western arrogance and anger about the economic prowess of a non-white nation resulted in Xi Jinping’s very public dressing down of Justin Trudeau.

EXCERPT: Pentagonism, A Substitute for Imperialism, Juan Bosch, 1967
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
A book by Dominican politician and historian Juan Bosch explains the connections between U.S. foreign policy, permanent war, and the defense industries.

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Wednesday, 16 November 2022 — — Black Agenda Report

Bittersweet Freedom for Mutulu Shakur
Margaret Kimberley
Mutulu Shakur has been granted parole but he is terminally ill. Black political prisoners in this country are held for 30, 40 and 50 years. Reprieve happens only when they are at death’s door.

MANIFESTO: The Nairobi Manifesto, 1985
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
In 1985, African women tried to warn us about a world in crisis. Did we listen?

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Wednesday, 9 November 2022 — Black Agenda Report

For African/Black Working Class and Colonized Peoples, Midterm Elections in the U.S. Offer No Relief from War, Repression and Capitalist Misery
Ajamu Baraka
The 50-year old neo-liberal agenda explains why political choices in this country provide little change that benefits the masses of people. The recent midterm election results will not bring about any improvement in the lives of the Black working class.

Why Democrats Don’t Win The Way They Should
Margaret Kimberley
The people prefer the initiatives which democrtatic party leadership claim to support. But their interests are those of the oligarchy and not of the voters. Slim margins of legislative victory bring compromise and gridlock which the leadershiop don’t really oppose.

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Wednesday, 2 November 2022 — Black Agenda Report

Politicians Make Black People the Face of Crime
Margaret Kimberley
Manufactured crime panics are still a successful method of getting votes from white people.

SPEECH: Thomas Sankara to the United Nations General Assembly, 4th October, 1984
Editors, Black Agenda Review
While the spirit of Thomas Sankara may be behind the recent coup in Burkina Faso, his vision remains an inspiration for everyone, everywhere, committed to anti-imperialism and third world autonomy.

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Wednesday, 26 October 2022 — — Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report October 26, 2022

DOCUMENT: Prologue: The Global Fragility Act, April 2022
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
The US is ushering a new foreign policy doctrine through “The Global Fragility Act.” We need to not only understand these new forms of imperial practice, but to also see the cunning use of language in the service of US imperialism.

Biden Orders Progressives to Denounce Themselves on Ukraine
Margaret Kimberley
Progressives made a mealy mouthed appeal to Biden to engage in talks regarding Ukraine. He slapped them down and they in turn slapped themselves.

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Wednesday, 19 October 2022 — Black Agenda Report

No to Foreign Military Intervention In Haiti! Yes, to Haitian Self-Determination!
Black Alliance for Peace, Haiti/Americas Team
The Haitian people are united in their opposition to occupations of their country. The U.S. and its Core Group allies are once again using the United Nations to legitimize their latest invasion scheme. The People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation can use their Security Council veto power to say no and delegitimize any new acts of aggression against Haiti.

Europe Under Control of the U.S. Mafia
Margaret Kimberley
Who benefits from the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines which connect Germany to natural gas in Russia? The U.S. has the means, motive, and opportunity and was publicly opposed to the project for many years. Yet the crime victims are strangely silent about identifying the probable perpetrator.

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Wednesday, 5 October, 2022 — Black Agenda Report

Congressional Black Caucus Continues Its Downward Spiral
Margaret Kimberley
The Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference returned with corporate sponsorships and obedience to the democratic party oligarchy. Joe Biden received a warm welcome from a group which lives off a now undeserved reputation.

ESSAY: A Case of Mistaken Identity: Antihaitianismo in Dominican Culture, Ernesto Sagás, 1993
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
On the history and origins of anti-Haitian sentiment in the Dominican Republic.

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