14 March 2019 — Black Agenda Report ADOS Shrinks Reparations Politics to Fit the Narrow Horizon of Tribalism  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor ADOS views black American descendants of slaves as a tribe, deprecating solidarity, and ignoring empire and capitalism without whose elimination reparations are impossible anyway. Continue reading

7 March 2019 — Black Agenda Report Reparations Now? Maybe In Order To Get The Job Done It’s Time to Call It Something Else  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor While reparations for the descendants of slaves in the US is entirely morally justifiable, it’s an elusive goal. Untangling its psychological and moral baggage… Continue reading

21 February 2019 — Black Agenda Report Bernie Tries to Steal the Rich Man’s Party  – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor The plutocrats did not invest billions of dollars every election cycle in the Democratic Party to see it used as a tool of their disempowerment. Freedom Rider: Kamala Harris: The Fix is In  –… Continue reading

14 February 2019 — Black Agenda Report Pelosi Sabotages Medicare for All, But Corporate Media Pretend Not to Notice  – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor When the top Democrat secretly plots to subvert a proposal supported by the vast majority of her party, that’s supposed to be news — unless the corporate media decide otherwise.</p… Continue reading

6 February 2019 — Black Agenda Report Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, Trump and the State of Imperial Decline – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Bernie Sanders’ anticipated second run for the presidency is the 6-ton elephant in the Democratic boardroom. But the rich owners of the Party would rather lose to Trump again than win with… Continue reading

31 January 2019 — Black Agenda Report The Racist, Imperialist War on Venezuela – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Donald Trump is simply exercising an imperial mandate handed down to him by Obama, who put “humanitarian” lipstick on the white supremacist pig of American exceptionalism. Freedom Rider: Trump, Democrats, and International Fascists Attack Venezuela… Continue reading

25 January 2019 — Black Agenda Report Some Early Lessons From the Los Angeles Teacher Strike  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Los Angeles wasn’t West Virgina, or Oklahoma or Arizona. LA Teachers prepared months and years in advance and used deep organizing techniques to prepare their members and communities for the crisis Continue reading

17 January 2019 — Black Agenda Report House Democrats’ HR 1 – Faking the Funk on Voting Rights, Spreading Fear and Gunning For the Greens in 2020 – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Continue reading

10 January 2019 — Black Agenda Report Raising the Bar on the Green New Deal  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor 20 million jobs. Medicare For All, and decent affordable housing. Free college tuition and student loan forgiveness. Zero emissions by 2030. That’s a Green New Deal Continue reading

3 January 2019 — Black Agenda Report Michelle Obama’s Memoir “Becoming” — Lots of Stories, Few Lessons – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor The first hundred pages are a warm and fuzzy memoir of growing up on the black south side of Chicago. The next 300 pages are less truthful and far less… Continue reading

24 December 2018 — Black Agenda Report BAP Welcomes Trump Exit from Syria  The Black Alliance for Peace sees the Trump administration’s announced withdrawal of US troops from Syria as “an attempt to realign itself with international law.” The US presence in Syria is “illegal,” said BAP lead organizer Ajamu Baraka. Trump should follow up the total… Continue reading

20 December 2018 — Black Agenda Report Bolton Threatens to Force Africa to Choose Between the US and China – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor The Americans wager that they can exercise veto power over African political alignments by force of arms, through AFRICOM’s massive military infiltration of the region. Continue reading

17 December 2018 — Black Agenda Report Mixed Bag at All-Boys Black Schools  Zayid Muhammad, of Newark Communities for Accountable Policing, was pleasantly surprised at the scope of a NJ Advanced Media report on police use of force in every city and town in the state. Muhammad didn’t expect an organization affiliated with the Star Ledgerto produce… Continue reading

13 December 2018 — Black Agenda Report Why We Can’t Have Nice Things — Like a Fighting Green Party  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor A faction of the Green Party’s steering committee wants to dissolve committees it doesn’t like and silence internal discussion among Greens about the party’s many problems, and perhaps expel working… Continue reading

10 December 2018 — Black Agenda Report Israel Gets Its Way, Again  Marc Lamont Hill’s firing from CNN for defending the rights of Palestinians is another “step in the direction of no resistance to anything Israel says and does,” said Dr. Rose Brewer, at the Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference, in Atlanta. Efia Nwangaza, another organizer, said the… Continue reading

7 December 2018 — Black Agenda Report If There’s A Hell Below, That’s Where He’ll Go: The BAR Obituary on George H.W. Bush  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor George H.W. Bush, the 41st US president was the son of a 20th centyury slavemaster, a blue-blooded war criminal, and possibly a CIA officer since… Continue reading