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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford  After two generations of “Black social disintegration, economic retrogression and political confusion” ushered in through the collaboration of the Black Misleadership Class, “Black people have rediscovered and revived the Black Radical Tradition, with self-determination at the core.” The Black is Back Coalition is promulgating a groundbreaking 19-point Black political agenda entirely “formulated through the prism of Black self-determination.” There have always been two main political imperatives in Black America. One has sought “representation” at all levels within the surrounding, hostile, white supremacist society, and celebrates the elevation of individual Blacks to high social, political and economic status. As a practical matter, under this kind of politics, the condition of the Black masses is secondary --…

On November 6, 2016, two days before the presidential election, the Black is Back Coalition is conducting our National Conference to consolidate a National Black Political Agenda for Self-determination in Washington, D.C. We are calling on Africans from throughout the U.S. to come out and put your imprint on our own agenda. The Black is Back Coalition has declared the need for our people to take our future in our own hands, independent of the influence and interests of the two major ruling class parties and their capitalist sponsors. We reject the notion that our fears of Donald Trump or our dependency on the Democratic Party of Clinton and Sanders should be allowed to determine our future. The Black is Back…