5 July 2018 — Black Agenda Report Black Caucus Support for Anti-Lynching Law is a Sham – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor If Rep. Bobby Rush’s anti-lynching bill were to have more than symbolic value, it would make it easier to convict the cops of lynching — since they are by far the main… Continue reading

28 June 2018 — Black Agenda Report Sure We Can Elect The Occasional Democrat Progressive. Then What? – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Sure we’re thirsty for victories. But we need to critically assess just what we get when we elect the occasional progressive to office. Are we building a party? A movement?… Continue reading

21 June 2018 — Black Agenda Report Can the Green Party Be Saved From Liberal Tokenism and Black Opportunism? We’ll See.  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor The Green Party’s identity caucuses have become anti-democratic strongholds of backward opportunism. Reforming them is an urgent priority if the GP is ever to become a… Continue reading

13 June 2018 — Black Agenda Report Chaos in the Imperial Big House – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Donald Trump is an arch-racist and “an intellectually and emotionally retarded spawn of super-privilege,” but he has plunged the U.S. ruling class into an acute global crisis of legitimacy. Continue reading

7 June 2018 — Black Agenda Report What Would An Authentic 21st Century US Left Look Like?  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor The left in the US is nowhere near contending for actual power. What would a left that COULD contend for power look like in the 21st century? Continue reading

30 May 2018 — Black Agenda Report How the “Progressives” in the Black Caucus Have Shrunk to Almost Nothing – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor There really is no “left wing” of the Democratic Party, just a tiny, ill-defined faction that can be brushed aside even on “bright line” issues of war and peace,… Continue reading

24 May 2018 — Black Agenda Report The Left Needs More Critical Debate and Real Discussion, Less Twitter/Facebook Name Calling, Unfriending and Mic Drops – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor We’ve allowed communicative capitalism — Facebook and Twitter not only to turn our everday interactions into the private property of billionaires, we’ve let… Continue reading

17 May 2018 — Black Agenda Report Deafening Silence of Democrats on Gaza Massacre Is Because It’s Their Baby Too  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Democratic party leaders are as always firmly behind their Israeli clients, and their party machinery remains under lock and key. Apartheid laws and periodic mass killings are… Continue reading

10 May 2018 — Black Agenda Report Barber Sermon on Militarism Reveals Philosophical & Political Limitations of the Poor Peoples Campaign  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor The PPC is the voice of the Institutional Church in the US. It pinpoints immoral policies and people as root causes of war, empire, militarism and… Continue reading

2 May 2018 — Black Agenda Report Bill Cosby Should Have Been Denounced by Black America Long Ago  – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Bill Cosby‘s crimes against women have finally caught up to him, but he was never made to pay a political price for his rants against the Black poor and women… Continue reading

25 April 2018 — Black Agenda Report Democrats Prepare to Pimp the Left in 2018 and 2020  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Democrats allow their left activists out of the hole every 2 or 4 years to campaign for justice at home and peace abroad. Democrats are a party of capital and… Continue reading

18 April 2018 — Black Agenda Report White Lies and Black Disbelief in a Fading Empire  – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor If killing “your own people” is the worst kind of crime, then it is the U.S., not Syria, whose murderous instincts must be restrained by the peoples of the world. Continue reading

11 April 2018 — Black Agenda Report Deep State Restrained Obama. Will It Restrain Trump? Time to Abandon Mere Hope For Action  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Hope is longing for a future condition over which we have no agency. The planet’s fate and ours is in our hands alone, to organize… Continue reading

5 April 2018 — Black Agenda Report MLK Anniversary, Another Gaza Massacre Ignored by the Black Political Class – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Our black political class observed the 50th anniversary of MLK’s martyrdom this week, but ignored the Gaza Land Day massacre perpetrated by apartheid Israel with full bipartisan US support.… Continue reading

29 March 2018 — Black Agenda Report 2018 Gun Debate A Narrow Opportunity For Democrats, A Wide One For the Left  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Democrats want a gun debate on narrow and limited ground avoiding the settler-slavemaster-colonial origin of the 2nd Amendment, and the ubiquity of armed white patriarchal US… Continue reading

22 March 2018 — Black Agenda Report Liberal Ire at Trump and Cambridge Analytica is Misdirected From Billionaires Who Own Your Data  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Why should our online human interacions be the private property of billionaires? Wrong question. Liberals would rather you rage at Trump for doing what both… Continue reading

15 March 2018 — Black Agenda Report Going Down With the Bad Ship U.S.A.  – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor The decline of U.S. empire is upon us, along with the politics of decline: nasty, stupid, petty and racist. Continue reading

8 March 2018 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: Black Panther Movie: A Black Face in a High Place  – Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist Fans of Black Panther call critics “haters” who don’t know how to have fun, but “the lack of political education amongst ourselves is the bigger issue here.” Continue reading

28 February 2018 — Black Agenda Report The Great, Bloody Black Dispersal from the Cities  – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor With alarming speed, and at great human cost, Blacks are being exiled from the central cities of America. Black urban removal is the national policy of both corporate parties. Continue reading