Black Agenda Report
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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
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Black Agenda Report 4 September 2015: #BlackLivesMatter Hurts Democrats’ Feelings
The #BlackLivesMatter organization this week rejected the endorsement of the Democratic National Committee, embarrassing top members of the party. However, the DNC resolution was a perfectly logical outcome of the #BlackLivesMatter strategy to make no substantive demands of presidential candidates.” No demands on power, no threat. Why not endorse? Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 2 September 2015: #BlackLivesMatter on School Privatization #FightForDyett, Teens2 Terrorists, Killer Cops
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
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New at Black Agenda Report 27 August 2015: #FightForDyett Hunger Strike in Chicago, Katrina, Logic of Genocide, Bernie Sanders
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
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New at Black Agenda Report 20 August 2015: #BlackLivesMatter Humiliates Itself, Katrina in the White Imagination
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
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New at Black Agenda Report 13 August, 2015: #BlackLivesMatter & the Dems, Holding Movement Figures Accountable, Palestine and Free Speech
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
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Black Agenda Report for August 6, 2015: #BlackLivesMatter, African America Regains Its Senses, Dead Lions & Dead Black Men
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
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Black Agenda Report July 23, 2015: NetRootsNation Confrontation, Obama's Prison Reform Con Game, Iran Deal, Sandra Bland
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
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New at Black Agenda Report 15 July 2015: Obama's Prison Charade, Towards a Socialist South Africa, Privatizing Public Schools
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
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