18 January 2017 — Black Agenda Report Is It Time To Revoke John Lewis’s Lifetime Civil Rights Hero Pass? A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon John Lewis was a hero 52 years ago. What’s he doing nowadays with his Lifetime Civil Rights Hero pass? He’s a 14 term Atlanta… Continue reading

16 January 2017 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 16, 2017 The Democrats: Serving the One Percent, Blaming the Russians When Capitalism Gets Sick, the Democrats Get Mean Political Prisoners Under Pressure in Indiana   Continue reading

15 January 2017 — Black Agenda Report Mocking, Marching, Stopping the Hate and Dumping Trump Are Not Enough by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Mocking, protesting and ridiculing Big Cheeto before and after inauguration will be big fun. But storms of ridicule did not drive Ronald Reagan or Dubya from office. Mockery that only… Continue reading

12 January 2017 — Black Agenda Report Who Owns the Movement, and Where Are They Taking It? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon As funders of the nonprofit industrial complex, the one percent of one percenters literally own what most of us call the movement. Last summer the “Ford Foundation and anonymous donors” pledged… Continue reading

3 January 2017 — Black Agenda Report Locating Fascism on the Home Map by BAR executive editor Glen Ford In decadence and decline, the U,S. has produced two strong strains of fascism that now vie for supremacy. The First Black President, now outgoing, represents the “cosmopolitan, global obsessed” variety of fascist. Donald Trump hails from… Continue reading

22 December 2016 — Black Agenda Report Grand Theft Electoral: Aborted Recount Effort Shows US Elections Are Broken, Recount-Proof and Audit-Proof by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Before judges and state officials aborted it, the attempted recount initiated by Green Party candidate Jill Stein revealed and confirmed specific patterns of widespread interstate electoral tampering… Continue reading

14 December 2016 — Black Agenda Report Corporate Democrats Stir Up War Fever Against Russia to Turn Election by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The orchestrators of the anti-Russian war hysteria “have shown over the past several weeks that they are willing, and even eager, to bring down the whole edifice of U.S. social and… Continue reading

8 December 2016 — Black Agenda Report Are Jill Stein and the Green Party Being Played By Democrats? Will the Recount Split the Green Party? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Are Jill Stein and the Greens carrying sludge for Democrats? Doesn’t the failure to seek recounts in any state Hillary won prove she… Continue reading

BAR and 12 other leftwing web sites have been put on a hit list publicized by the Washington Post. Fascists of the Democratic kind are responsible. “Had Clinton won the election, she would have begun a campaign of repression against the Left along the same national security lines as the Washington Post article, with that… Continue reading

30 November 2016 — Black Agenda Report Fascism with a Democratic Party Face by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Fascism Last Stage of Capitalism BAR and 12 other leftwing web sites have been put on a hit list publicized by the Washington Post. Fascists of the Democratic kind are responsible. “Had Clinton won the election,… Continue reading

23 November 2016 — Black Agenda Report Obama’s Musings on False Narratives and Fake Stories by BAR executive editor Glen Ford So-called “fake news” has Obama shook up – probably because he and other presidents want to keep their monopoly on false narratives. “The ruling class, which Obama so faithfully serves, has lost control of… Continue reading

22 November 2016 — Black Agenda Report Green Party: Part of the Solution No World War, But Plenty of Domestic Oppression Saving Mumia and Others from a Curable Disease U.S. Election Ran on “Fear” and “Betrayal” Torture, Anyone?     Continue reading

16 November 2016 — Black Agenda Report None of Them Have Ever Been My President by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Tens of thousands have demonstrated against the election of Donald Trump. Some are activists, continuing the struggle. Others are Democrats that are just “mad.” “The Black movement against police terror didn’t need a Donald… Continue reading

15 November 2016 — Black Agenda Report Cornel West: Class Becoming “Much More Central” “We are witnessing the end of the neoliberal era,” said Dr. Cornel West, the nation’s most prominent Black public intellectual, assessing the import of last week’s election. West backed Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primaries, then endorsed the Green Party’s presidential… Continue reading

9 November 2016 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: Dump the Democrats for Good by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Donald Trump, the white nationalist that claimed to oppose the corporate establishment, appears to have won the U.S. presidency. But, “even the victory of the openly bigoted Trump poses an opportunity to right… Continue reading

2 November 2016 — Black Agenda Report Hillary’s “Big Tent” is Obama’s “Grand Bargain” on Steroids by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Barack Obama tried to woo Republicans into a “Grand Bargain” that would have gutted Social Security. Bill Clinton let loose the banks. But Donald Trump’s destruction of the Republican Party will allow Hillary… Continue reading

1 November 2016 — Black Agenda Report The Missing Black Movement Ingredient: Self-Determination The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations will hold a National Black Political Convention on Self-Determination, November 5 and 6, in Washington, DC. “If you go through history, the fundamental thing that we’ve confronted is the loss of… Continue reading

26 October 2016 — Black Agenda Report Malcolm X on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Bruce A. Dixon When astute political commentary from a half century ago eloquently describes the current political conundrum it means we’ve been stuck in a bad place for a long time. Do we really… Continue reading

21 October 2016 — Black Agenda Report Trump’s Disintegration Means It’s Not Just Safe to Vote Green, It’s Mandatory A BAR radio commentary by Bruce A. Dixon Hillary’s most potent argument among most people isn’t her own record, positions or abilities. It’s the proclaimed need to keep her opponent Donald Trump out of the White… Continue reading