Black Agenda Report

  • Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 29, 2020

    29 June 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford Inequality: The American Ethos / Blacks Need to Rethink “Positive” Images in a Racist Country / Reading During “Perfect Storm” of Crisis Inequality: The American Ethos Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford The US has historically… Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 25 June 2020

    25 June 2020 — Black Agenda Report Yes, Defund the Cops – And Put Them Under Community Control Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor Community control of the police means empowering the people to shape and oversee the mechanisms of their own security and end forever the armed occupation of our communities by hostile forces. Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 22, 2020

    22 June 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford A New Generation, Same Struggle / “Zero Degree Rage” Focuses Black Minds / Elite Deploy Spy Hi-Tech Against the People / Will Blacks Oppose or Defend US Empire? Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 17 June 2020

    17 June 2020 — Black Agenda Report Community Control of the Police – and a Whole Lot More Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor Abolition of the police begins with community control, in which community representatives not only hire, fire and oversee the cops, but decide the nature of the policing that is necessary and acceptable. Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 15, 2020

    15 June 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford Police Must Answer to the Community / Beware “Domestication” of Protest / Repaying the Movement for Her Freedom / Huge Teenage Linebackers Can Be Hurt by Racism and Abuse Continue reading

  • Community control Vs. defunding the police: A critical analysis

    The intensity and scope of the mass rebellion that has gripped the U.S. and expanded internationally has shaken global white supremacist capitalist patriarchy to its knees. The people have tasted a real sense of their own power and as a result some very unexpected developments have emerged. Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 10 June 2020

    10 June 2020 — Black Agenda Report Time to Sharpen Our Weapons and Wits Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor Having not yet won real power over the police, this is no time for a lull or a truce — it’s time to sharpen our political instruments and deepen the mass movement’s social penetration. Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 8, 2020

    8 June 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford The “Carceral State” is the Enemy / Blacks Will No Longer Be “Chumps” for the Democrats / Community Control of Police Vs Impunity / Abolitionists Drew Blood in Fighting Slavery Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 4 June 2020

    4 June 2020 — Black Agenda Report The Movement Gets BIG – and Its Enemies Reveal Themselves Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor The decrepit racial capitalist order appears to be unraveling under the weight of coronavirus, economic depression, and a quantitative leap in people’s willingness to confront power through the politics of the street. Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 27 May 2020

    27 May 2020 — Black Agenda Report The Blue Plague and Black Death Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor George Floyd’s death by Blue Plague in Minneapolis was widely condemned by the same parties that have encouraged and funded the spread of the fatal contagion. Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 21 May 2020

    21 May 2020 — Black Agenda Report Indict and Punish the Perpetrators of Covid Mass Death Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor Not just Trump, but the whole US ruling class must pay for the mass Covid death toll among Blacks, because only the ruling class has the power to systematically allocate life-death chances for whole… Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 13 May 2020

    13 May 2020 — Black Agenda Report Leftists Jump the Corporate Democratic Ship, Leaving Sanders Behind  Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor History may record that the corporate duopoly dike was finally broken in the Time of Plague, with the defection of Bernie’s former sheep from the Democratic Party. Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 7 May 2020

    7 May 2020– Origin: Black Agenda Report Whose Crisis?: When the People Lose, the Corporate Parties and the Rich Win Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor The Democratic Party is a servant of corporate capital and cannot possibly be converted to a people’s party. The rise and demise of Bernie Sanders proves the point. Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report for 9 April 2020

    9 April 2020– Origin: Black Agenda Report Resistance Growing to Covid-Capitalism  Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor Covid-19 has laid bare a fundamental truth: that capitalist healthcare is a contradiction in terms, since capital – like the killer virus —  cares for nothing but reproducing itself. Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 6, 2020

    6 April 2020– Origin: Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford Call for a General Strike Beginning May 1st / Working People Must Build Solidarity in Crisis / Students May Strike for “Social Welfare” During Crisis Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report for 1 April 2020

    1 April 2020 — Black Agenda Report “The American Disease”: Only the Overthrow of the Oligarchy Will Cure It  Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor Although the coronavirus provided the trigger for the current global shrinkage, the economic crisis was already looming when the pathogen made its physical appearance. Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Radio for week of March 30, 2020

    30 March 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford COVID-19 May Trigger a “Crisis of Legitimacy” / Bernie Sanders’ Socialism Isn’t the Real Thing / Can Black Marxists Imagine the Unimaginable? / Mumia: Things Fall Apart Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Radio 24 March 2020

    24 March 2020 — Black Agenda Radio Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 23, 2020  Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford Black Trillion Dollar “Buying Power” is a Capitalist Hoax / James Baldwin’s African Awakening / Too Fast to Be a Woman Continue reading

  • Late-Stage Imperial Omni-Crisis: Death by Virus and Internal Contradictions

    The epidemic reveals the stark truth, that the US dismantled and privatized its public health system, to fatten the pockets of the oligarchy and render working people more helpless and dependent. Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 18 March 2020

    18 March 2020 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: COVID-19 Covers Up War and Financial Collapse Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist COVID-19 is not just a health emergency. It has exposed the causes of inequality and suffering in this country. Continue reading