13 July 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 13, 2020  Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford Black Caucus Protects Cops, Not the People / Movement for People’s Party Aims to Unseat Duopoly in 2024 / Green Party is “Vital” to Growth of Grassroots Movement Continue reading

9 July 2020 — Black Agenda Report Don’t Let the Democratic Party Bury the Movement Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor The Black movement will be asphyxiated by the ubiquitous fingers of the Democratic Party if it does not build independent nexuses of people’s power. Continue reading

6 July 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford George Floyd Protests Were Result of Years of Organizing / AFRICOM Enforces US Colonial Project / Celebrating the “Father of Black Liberation Theology” / “Kwaito” Music Moves South African Youth Continue reading

2 July 2020 — Black Agenda Report Protest and Power Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor Building People’s Power is the vital arena of struggle under late stage capitalism, when the “system” is not only objectively failing, but the people know it is coming apart at the seams. Continue reading

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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