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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

4 March 2020 — Black Agenda Report Fear Pervades Black Politics, and Makes Us Agents of Our Own Oppression Glen Ford, BAR executive editor Many Black voters recoiled in abject terror at the very thought that the Democratic Party – “our” party, in many Black folks’ minds – might fracture under the challenge of the Continue reading

2 March 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford If the Left Doesn’t Critique Endless War, Who Will? / “Respectable” Black Women Fought Mass Incarceration / Last Surviving Member of the Move 9 is Released / Black Scholar Praises Heroes and Indicts “Scoundrels” of McCarthy Era Continue reading

26 February 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black America, Endless War and the Evil Genius of Russiagate  Glen Ford, BAR executive editor The Democrats — who are now the most aggressive war party – have succeeded in linking Donald Trump to Russia, and then lumping all  critics of U.S. war-making with Russia and, thereby, with Trump. Freedom Continue reading

24 February 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford Black Oppression is Environmental Injustice / One Dollar Bail, But Still in Jail / Blacks Continue to Die on the Alter of White Womanhood / Mumia Speaks on the Cops and Today’s Deadly Economy Continue reading

17 February 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 17, 2020  Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford US Must Build Housing on a Bigger Scale than the New Deal / Abolish Schooling As We Know It / Free All Political Prisoners, Including Julian Assange / Mumia Marks Release Continue reading

13 February 2020 — Black Agenda Report Free All Political Prisoners –- Including Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning  Glen Ford, BAR executive editor Julian Assange and his protégés have made common cause with Black revolutionaries in their zeal to lay bare the dictatorial nature of the omni-pervasive national security state and the sheer, racist barbarity of the Continue reading

6 February 2020 — Black Agenda Report Bloomberg Becoming Oligarch-in-Chief of Democratic Party  Glen Ford, BAR executive editor If Sanders wins the nomination, Michael Bloomberg and his filthy rich brethren are already preparing to fund and erect an alternative structure of dependable corporate governance. Continue reading