Black Agenda Report
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Black Agenda Report for May 18, 2016: Repubs Split, Maybe Democrats Too, Dixiecrat Ballot Laws Temporarily Overturned
19 May 2016 — Black Agenda Report Down with the Duopoly: The Republicans Have Split; Now It’s the Democrat’s Turn by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The split in the Democratic Party will become an unbridgeable chasm “when Sanders supporters are forced to recognize that the 40-plus percent of the Democratic base they represent cannot… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 25 March 2016: Dems Road to Black Ruin, the SCOTUS Scam
25 March 2016 — — Black Agenda Report The Democratic Road to Black Ruin by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Democratic Party operatives claim that Blacks are voting “strategically” when they support the corporate warmonger Hillary Clinton for president. The reality is, Blacks believe only Clinton has the money and organization to beat the White… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 25 February 2016: Bogus Power of the Black Vote, Obama Forever, DeRay, Beyonce
25 February 2016 — Black Agenda Report The Bogus Power of the Black Vote Within the Confines of the Democratic Party By Glen Ford by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Black Power” has been turned on its head on the electoral front, put at the service of corporatists like Hillary Clinton. “Paralyzed by fear of the White… Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 21 January 2016: Poisoning Black Cities, the Happy Slave, Atlantic City & Behind the Lead Curtain
21 January 2016 — Black Agenda Report Poisoning Black Cities by BAR executive editor Glen Ford They drowned New Orleans. Now they have poisoned Flint, Michigan. The corporate campaign to ethnically cleanse U.S. cities knows no bounds. Michigan’s emergency financial manager law is “part of Wall Street’s tool kit to starve, bulldoze, redline, over-price, oppressively police, and… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for December 23, 2015: Black-Palestinian Solidarity, the Nonprofit Industrial Complex, Sacrificial Rahm
23 December 2015 — Black Agenda Report Palestinians Resist Zionist Terror, Plus U.S., European, Arab Royal, Turkish and Nigerian Terror by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The West has forced millions to become wandering, destitute refugees, as it destroys nations and peoples that get in the way of Empire. Palestinians have lived this reality for… Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 17 December 2015: Dems & Repubs Block The Vote, Rich Countries Block Climate Action, Nigeria's Military IS Boko Haram
17 December 2015 — Black Agenda Report How Democrats and Republicans Collude to Block the Vote — And How We Can Un-Block It by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon We hear lots of outrage about how Republicans block the vote. But blocking the vote by keeping third parties off the ballot with unjust laws… Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 9 December 2015: Dyson's Latest Offical Spokesnegro Audition, Syria & World War, DOJ Investigates Chicago Cops
9 December 2015 — Black Agenda Report Dyson’s “Yes She Can” Is Another Lazy, Shameless Official Spokesnegro Audition Tape A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Bruce A. Dixon You’d think a “Yes She Can” piece about Hillary Clinton from a supposed black “public intellectual” would explain what and how she might do and why we… Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 19 November 2015: BlackLivesMatter Leaders to Get Paid, Paris Blowback, Baltimore Banks Expel Blacks
19 November 2015 — Black Agenda Report “Black Lives Matter” Groups Hoping for a Big Payday by BAR executive editor Glen Ford This week, the billionaires that fund the Democratic Party and its satellite organizations will decide which of the “Black Lives Matter” groups will get paid to lead the Black “movement.” The #BlackLivesMatter network… Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 11 November 2015: This Ain't Your Grandpa's Movement & Corporate Media Is Never Your Friend
11 November 2015 — Black Agenda Report This Ain’t Your Grandfather’s Civil Rights Movement by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Shaun King and others like to compare today’s incipient movement to the civil rights era. But that’s a mistake. Today’s youth confront “a profoundly post-civil rights phenomenon”: the Mass Black Incarceration State, a national project that… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for November 5, 2014: Obama Appoints Another Stooge, Privatizer Sec'y of Education, Americans ARE Poor
5 November 2015 — Black Agenda Report The Obama Education Legacy Part 1 of 3: Obama Appoints Another Privatizing Stooge Secretary of Education by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When president-elect Barack Obama announced Arne Duncan would be Secretary of Education in December 2008, Black Agenda Report called him an “underqualified stooge and privatizer.”… Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 2 November 2015: Devolution of BlackLivesMatter, Obama Fakes Funk on Standardized Testing, Nuke Waste in St. Louis
2 November 2015 — Black Agenda Report Garza vs. McKesson: The Great Debate Over How the Democratic Party Will Liberate Black People by BAR executive editor Glen Ford One side wants the Democrats to sponsor a town hall meeting on racial justice, the other prefers that the Party hold a Black issues oriented debate. Both… Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 21 October 2015: No Change at the 2016 Ballot Box, TFA/BlackLivesMatter's Brittney Packnett's Hollow "Defense"
21 October 2015 — Black Agenda Report Blacks Will Transform America, and Free Themselves, But Not at the Ballot Box in 2016 by BAR executive editor Glen Ford It is paradoxical that African Americans, who politically most resemble the Scandinavian social democrats Bernie Sanders claims to admire, are not supporting Sanders for president. Based on… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 21, 2015
21 October 2015 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 21, 2015 Why Not Hundreds of Rise Up October Campaigns? When the Rise Up October campaign against police violence arrives in New York City for three days of demonstrations, this weekend, the People’s Organization for Progress (POP), based in Newark,… Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 14 October 2015: #BlackLivesMatter & Hillary Chat, How to Fight, MMM & Millenials, TFA & Disaster Capitalism
14 October 2015 — Black Agenda Report #BlackLivesMatter: Chat Partners with Hilllary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The #BlackLivesMatter organization is now part of the 2016 Democratic Party election machinery, assuming its role as a power broker on behalf of Black people. It’s a familiar historical pattern, except for the speed with which the… Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 7 October 2015: AGs Lynch Shields Killer Cops, Putin Bombs Islamic State, Obama Bombs a Hospital, Charter Schools Flunk in NOLA
7 October 2015 — Black Agenda Report Obama’s Justice: Holder Fought Prisoner Release, Lynch Backtracks on Killer Cops by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder are given false credit for the pending release of 6,000 drug offenders, when in fact “the administration has fought tooth-and-nail to limit and… Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 30 September 2015: Not Getting on the MMM Bus, Venezuelan Leader in Harlem, Putin VS. Obama
30 September 2015 — Black Agenda Report Why I Ain’t Getting on the Bus for the MMM This Or Any Other Year by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Getting on the bus to DC this October 10? BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon wishes you safe travels, but he ain’t coming. “Justice or Else” is… Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report for 23 September 2015: Terri Swell rated "Worst Black Congressperson", CBC Report Card for 2015
23 September 2015 — Black Agenda Report CBC Monitor Report Card Ranks Terri Sewell Worst Black Member of Congress by BAR executive editor Glen Ford, with Patrice Johnson Black Agenda Report is once again publishing the annual CBC Monitor Report Card. The former all-time worst Black Congressman, David Scott of Georgia, has passed the torch… Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 17 September 2015: #BlackLivesMatter Activist Anointed "Transformational Leader", Police Training IS the Problem
17 September 2015 — Black Agenda Report Yale’s $40K Wet Kiss Anoints #BlackLivesMatter’s Deray McKesson Their Kind of “Transformational” Leader A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 9 September 2015: Trumped, #FightForDyett – Resist School Privatization, Refugee Crisis, Secret Charter School Handouts
10 September 2015 — Black Agenda Report Corrected Version The Trumpocalypse: Democrats Rule Blacks by Fear by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Donald Trump is a very useful man, to both the Democratic and Republican factions of the ruling corporate party. The “White Man’s Party” (Republican) faction can blame excesses of hate on him, and… Continue reading
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Freedom Rider: Refugees Flee American Aggression By Margaret Kimberley
Americans are made uncomfortable by pictures of drowned refugee children, but most cannot accept that their own government’s “unrelenting effort at regime change in Syria is the cause of this crisis.” U.S. corporate media parrot Washington’s lies, keeping tally of the displaced and doomed, but blaming Syria’s government for defending itself against western-backed jihadists. Rather… Continue reading