2 September 2015 — Black Agenda Report Where’s #BlackLivesMatter In the Struggle Against School Privatization? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon #BlackLivesMatter’s national board promptly reacted to a fulsome DNC endorsement with an apparent repudiation. While rhetorical opposition to Democrats is fine, on-the-ground work against their concrete polices is a step further. Apart from… Continue reading

287 August 2015 — Black Agenda Report Organizing, Not Activism: Chicago’s Dyett HS Hunger Strikers Mark 11th Day Resisting Closing & Privatization of Their School By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Activism is showing up, speaking out, demonstrating here, tweeting there, disrupting that and blogging that. But activists are only responsible to themselves. Organizing,… Continue reading

20 August 2015 — Black Agenda Report #BlackLivesMatter Performs a Self-Humiliation at Hillary Clinton’s Hands by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Hillary Clinton found it easy to reduce a #BlackLivesMatter delegation to “school children at an elementary civics class,” when they met with her last week. Clinton lectured the activists on the need to make… Continue reading

13 August 2015 — Black Agenda Report #BlackLivesMatter and the Democrats: How Disruption Can Lead to Collaboration by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The #Black Lives Matter organization may believe that it is confronting, rather than collaborating with, the Democratic Party, by disrupting candidates’ speeches. However, the tactic inevitably leads to “either a direct or… Continue reading

6 August 2015 — Black Agenda Report Where’s the #BlackLivesMatter Critique of the Black Misleadership Class, or Obama or Hillary? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon If #BlackLivesMatter is a movement, just what does that mean? Obama’s 2008 campaign said it was “the movement” too. If modern movements are indistinguishable from brands, to whom… Continue reading

23 July 2015 — Black Agenda Report NetRoots Nation Confrontation Wasn’t About #BlackLivesMatter At All A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon NetRootsNation is a gathering for paid and wannabe paid Democratic party activists, including the ostensibly non-partisan ones. You go there to make connections, learn new stuff and get… Continue reading

15 July 2015 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: Obama’s Prison Charade by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Barack Obama attempts to create a phony legacy as the prison “reform” president by extending clemency to 46 non-violent drug offenders – not all that many, by presidential standards. Yet, he went to the U.S.… Continue reading

9 July 2015 — Black Agenda Report Black Self Determination Matters by BAR executive editor Glen Ford After two generations of political decay, Black people finally realize they “need to find ways to protect themselves from the police agencies of the Mass Black Incarceration State.” The problem is, getting the police off the community’s back… Continue reading

2 July 2015 — Black Agenda Report Both Major U.S. Parties are Plagues on Humanity by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The two corporate parties have collaborated in knocking off countries targeted for invasion and regime change. They have both nurtured the jihadist international network that was created under presidents Carter and Reagan. And presidents… Continue reading

24 June 2015 — Black Agenda Report Why Charleston Shooter Dylan Roof Isn’t a “Terrorist” But Maybe Some of Us Are A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon US law defines a terrorist as someone willing to break the law to change government or corporate policy, like the #BlackLivesMatter protestors,… Continue reading

18 June 2015 — Black Agenda Report Way Too Little, But Not Too Late: Hillary & Dems Fake the Funk on Voting Rights by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Hillary is getting undeserved praise for her stand on voting rights, which is way too little, and factually less than some of her apologists want us… Continue reading

10 June 2015 — Black Agenda Report Democrats Hope to Bury Black Lives Matter Under Election Blitz by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Democrats hope the Black Lives Matter movement, like the Occupy Wall Street movement, will disappear amid the hype of the coming election season. “The Democrats have mounted a systematic cooption-repression response… Continue reading

27 May 2015 — Black Agenda Report Cops Continued “Coon Huntin’” in Cleveland Despite 2004 Federal Consent Decree Freedom Rider: Gentrification and the Death of Black Communities Continue reading

20 May 2015 — Black Agenda Report Sign the Petition! Tell the Congressional Black Caucus to Resist President Obama’s “Race Card” Appeal to Accept Fast Track for TPP and TTIP! Obama, Master of Diversion, Proposes Bogus Reforms of Militarized Police Continue reading

13 May 2015 — Black Agenda Report TPP, Obama’s “NAFTA on Steroids” Fails First Senate Test Freedom Rider: When a Black Mayor Killed Black People Continue reading

6 May 2015 — Black Agenda Report Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders: Sheepdogging for Hillary and the Democrats in 2016 Bringing the Crisis to a Head in Baltimore Continue reading

29 April 2015 — Black Agenda Report Lawless President Obama Chides Baltimore “Criminals And Thugs,” Ignores Savagery Of Baltimore Police More Dyson V. West: Michael Eric Dyson Ain’t No Muhammad Ali Continue reading

22 April 2015 — Black Agenda Report Seeking Hillary’s Favor: Dyson Attacks Cornel West by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Michael Eric Dyson has never produced even a few words of substantive critique of President Obama’s wars, his “Grand Bargain” with the GOP, or his role in the economic collapse of Black America. Instead, Dyson… Continue reading

15 April 2015 — Black Agenda Report Black People Must Police Themselves by BAR executive editor Glen Ford When police murder Black people on the streets of U.S. cities, they do not think they are behaving like “rogue” cops or “bad apples.” Rather, most of them believe – and are encouraged in believing – that… Continue reading