27 September 2018 — Black Agenda Report Maynard Jackson Netflix Movie Muddles Black Politics, Mangles Black History – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Sam Pollard’s Maynard Jackson documentary currently on Netflix is lazy black history denuded of black politics in the service of black elites. Continue reading

20 September 2018 — Black Agenda Report Does Black Unity Behind Black Candidates Really Help Most Black People?  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Not really. The wall of black unity around Barack Obama freed him to embrace school privatiztion, to ignore foreclosures of hundreds of thousands of black families, to break promises… Continue reading

13 September 2018 — Black Agenda Report Two Thirds of Progressive Democrat Congressional Candidates Are Silent on Foreign Policy. Why?  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Of 31 candidates backed by Justice Democrats, Our Revolution and Brand New Congress, 21 have absolutely nothing to say about foreign policy. That can’t be right. Don’t… Continue reading

30 August 2018 — Black Agenda Report The Manufactured McCain: Lifting Up A Bloodstained Lying Venal Servant of Capitalist Empire  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor John McCain was a bloodstained bribe taking, lying, war criminal and politician who constructed a myth of himself as outsider and war hero. Lifting him up justifies… Continue reading

23 August 2018 — Black Agenda Report Why the Blue Wave Missed Missouri’s 1st CD  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Right wing political machines with the black church and nonprofit industrial complex at their core dominate Democratic politics in many black constituencies. That’s what stopped the blue wave. Continue reading

17 August 2018 — Black Agenda Report New Study Reveals Old Fact: Black Male Youth Feel Threatened – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Every study that measures the enhanced anxiety of Black tweens that find themselves on a strange corner, is an indictment of the white men at the top of the capitalist pyramid. Continue reading

2 August 2018 — Black Agenda Report The Bizarre Facebook Path to Corporate Fascism – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor “Russians” are indicted for launching a #MeToo campaign of mimicry, echoing the rhetoric and memes indigenous to U.S. political struggles, while the people who are being mimicked are labeled co-conspirators in a foreign-based “plot.” Continue reading

25 July 2018 — Black Agenda Report Shaun King is “All In” with the FBI and CIA  – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Shaun King is making his stand, shoulder-to-shoulder with COINTELPRO assassins, CIA liars, grand jury-manipulating prosecutors and anybody else that smears Trump and Putin. Continue reading

19 July 2018 — Black Agenda Report As Trump Readies Concentration Camps, Where Is The Green Party?  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Trump wants to to throw up enough immigrant concentration camps to house California’s state prison population. The Green Party meets this weekend in Salt Lake City. Will Greens find a… Continue reading

12 July 2018 — Black Agenda Report California Leads the Way in Resistance to the Rule of Bankers – Glen Ford, BAR executive editor There will be a “Fire Next Time” – another catastrophic Wall Street meltdown – and when that happens, the people must be primed to demand the nationalization of the private banks.… Continue reading

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