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

29 January 2020 — Black Agenda Report “Progressive” Dems Ought to Divorce the Duopoly, Not Badger Greens Glen Ford, BAR executive editor The signers reveal themselves to be as fearful for the fate of the duopoly as the corporate shills they claim to oppose. Freedom Rider: Negroes for Bloomberg Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist Chicago’s Bobby… Continue reading

22 January 2020 — Black Agenda Report Shaky Joe Biden, Billionaire Bloomberg, and the Global Race to the Bottom Glen Ford, BAR executive editor Bloomberg has put himself and his fortune into the contest to rally his (ruling) classmates to the task of shoring up corporate control of the Party if Sanders seizes the top spot.… Continue reading

21 January 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 20, 2020  Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford Black Self-Defense is Important, But Ideology is Paramount / Catch the “‘F’ the Police” Train / Roots of Imperial Policing Continue reading

8 January 2020 — Black Agenda Report Trump is a Criminal, But the Democrats Belong to the Same Mafia Glen Ford, BAR executive editor The Republicans and Democrats are united under the American imperial banner, and only differ on details of strategy to maintain Washington’s global domination. Freedom Rider: Iran and the Need for Black… Continue reading

18 December 2019 — Black Agenda Report The Impending Ruling Class Mental Breakdown and Riot Glen Ford, BAR executive editor The outcome of the early primaries may erase Joe Biden’s “electability” luster and plunge the Lords of Capital into a panic in which all bets are off on what’s left of democratic liberties. Freedom Rider:… Continue reading

5 December 2019 — Black Agenda Report “Booming” Economy Means More Bad Jobs and Faster Race to the Bottom Glen Ford, BAR executive editor For the past 30 years, no matter which party has been in power, the US economy has produced more and more “bad” jobs – because the Race to the Bottom is… Continue reading

28 November 2019 — Black Agenda Report A (Re)Born National “Black and Left-Led” Organization Fights for Community Control of Police  Glen Ford, BAR executive editor On the momentum of Chicago’s anti-police movement – the most advanced in the nation – the city’s Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression has gone national after a highly successful conference. Continue reading

13 November 2019 — Black Agenda Report Race is Central to Both Revolution and Reaction in Latin American  Glen Ford, BAR executive editor The world birthed in the near extinction of one-fifth of humanity still exists, in the social relations bequeathed to the Americas by conquistadors and enslavers. Freedom Rider: Hybrid Warfare in Bolivia and Beyond  Margaret Kimberley,… Continue reading

7 November 2019 — Black Agenda Report By trying to Silence Sanders, the Corporate Media De-Legitimize Themselves  Glen Ford, BAR executive editor Sanders has been made into a non-person, and his proposals routinely distorted, because the corporate media want Americans to meekly submit to the Race to the Bottom. Continue reading

31 October 2019 — Black Agenda Report Farewell to John Conyers Jr. – and to His Era  Glen Ford, BAR executive editor John Conyers’ long career is a window on the decline of Black politics in the two generations since the demise of the mass Black movement. Continue reading