By Mama Marimba Ani A group of European scavengers, many of whom had been imprisoned or homeless in England, arrived in New England in 1620. They first lived on Turtle…
By Katharine Whittemore One of the most powerful magazine articles I’ve ever read is “The Case for Reparations,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, in the June 2014 issue of The Atlantic. Its…

Part II. The birth and coming-into-being of Nat Turner (October 2, 1800) was surely a bad omen for the oppressor but a sign and wonder for the oppressed. But even…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka http://blackagendareport.com/paris_attacks_white_lives_matter “The white supremacist ideology and world-view, normalized and thus unrecognized by most, has become a form of psychopathology.” I received a message…
By: Charles D. Ellison Of terrorism’s many destructive traits, none is more horrifying than its ability to unexpectedly snatch our normalcy from us. Recent attacks in Paris force us into…

The history of Black people in this country is a complex, engaging and thought-compelling history, a history of Holocaust and enduring hope; of savage enslavement and yet an unsupressable desire…

November 17, 2015 Paul Robeson. Muhammad Ali. Bill Russell. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Jim Brown. Curt Flood. Hank Aaron. The “Black 14” at the University of Wyoming. The St. Louis Rams. Michael…
ISIS shocked the civilized world with its beheadings of civilians who they had held in captivity. Now ISIS is spreading its bloody tentacles in different parts of the world as…
By DR INDIRA MARTIN (Member of the Bahamas National Reparations Committee) With the Caribbean reparations movement gathering steam, it has become necessary to articulate, in public, the arguments and issues…
By: Charles D. Ellison Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson Check the latest polls and see neurosurgeon-turned-wannabe-president Ben Carson surf on a sudden wave of black support. Not that black…
By Robert Stitt The Huffington Post recently published a response to the New York times article “In Heroin Crisis, White Families Seek Gentler War on Drugs.” The articles point out…

November 10, 2015 We won the Voting Rights Act of 1965 at Selma, combining the power of a principled mass movement led by Dr. King and a compassionate president who…