Black Agenda Report
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New at Black Agenda Report April 9, 2015: Killer Cops, Black Politicos Re-Elect Rahm Emanuel, Why Al Shabaab Kills
9 April 2014 — Black Agenda Report Killer Cops Boost Body Count in War on Black America by BAR executive editor Glen Ford March was a very good month for killer cops: they racked up at least 111 bodies, the majority of them unarmed Black and brown men. “Any genuine movement for criminal justice ‘reform’… Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 4 April 2015
4 April 015 — Black Agenda Report When the Jihadists Turn on Their Masters by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The filthy rich hereditary rulers of the Gulf wage war on secularists and Shia. But, the greatest danger to Saudi Arabian royalty is the Frankenstein they have nurtured for nearly four decades: Islamic jihadists. “The… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 25 March 2015
25 March 2015 — Black Agenda Report Philadelphia’s Killer Cops Prove the Necessity of Black Community Control of Police by BAR executive editor Glen Ford In response to the Black Lives Matter movement, the U.S. Justice Department has attempted to position itself on the side of “reform.” Its new report on the Philadelphia police is… Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 18 March 2015: No Justice, No Peace in Ferguson, 47 Republicans, Black Economic Progress a Myth
18 March 2015 — Black Agenda Report No Justice, No Peace, Without Black Community Control of Police by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Police, prosecutors, politicians and corporate propagandists seized on the shooting of two cops in Ferguson, to claim that the Black Lives Matter movement had suffered a “setback” – as if they have… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 11 March 2015: Selma 50th Anniversary, "Chicago Will be Detroit", Final Insult to Michael Brown
11 March 2015 — Black Agenda Report Obama’s Selma Song: America Is Not Racist – It’s Just Ferguson by BAR executive editor Glen Ford No matter how many Black people are shot down in the streets by cops, no matter how far Black people fall relative to whites in the economy, Barack Obama has always… Continue reading
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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Radicalization of 21st Century Black Studies By Dr. Anthony Monteiro
February 23 was W.E.B Du Bois’ 147th birthday. He was a man of the Enlightenment, reason and Black resistance. He believed in scientific inquiry, poetry and art as methods for acquiring knowledge. Most of all he believed that knowledge had to be practical and purposeful and must be connected to the struggles for freedom of… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 4 March 2015: Obama's Criminal Justice Reforms – Trayvon, the Final Insult, Bibi Punks Barack
4 March 2015 — Black Agenda Report Obama’s Ferguson Commission a Joke: Why Liberal Proposals and “Solutions” Don’t Cut It by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The Task Force for 21st Century Policing, Obama’s response to public disgust with police misconduct after Ferguson is the wish list of big city cops, nonprofits, Justice Department… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 26 February 2015: Chicago Stuns Rahm Emanuel, Student Debt Strike, Silence on Libya
26 February 2015 — Black Agenda Report The People of Chicago Stun Obama’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Now It’s Round 2 by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Despite support from local black & Latino politicians former Obama chief of staff and Rahm Emanuel failed to win re-election as Chicago mayor on Feb. 24. He faces… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report February 18, 2015: CBC, the Cowardly Black Caucus, US Empire & ISIS, Angry White Man Kills Again
18 February 2015 — Black Agenda Report Cowardly Black Caucus Reacts to Israeli Insults, Ignores Israeli Apartheid by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The CBC is silent when Israel passes discriminatory laws, steals Palestinian land, or punishes Palestinian civilians with power and water cutoffs and blockades. Like the rest of Congress, the CBC endorsed… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report February 11, 2015: Loretta Lynch is Condi Rice With a Law Degree, Criminal Justice Reform, War Is Peace
12 February 2015 — Black Agenda Report Loretta Lynch is Condoleeza Rice With A Law Degree by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In private practice Loretta Lynch was a “white collar crime specialist” keeping banksters, tax evaders and money launderers out of jail. She did exactly that at Obama’s Justice Department, passing get out… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 4 February 2015: Oprah & Sharpton Attack #BlackLivesMatter, ISIS Chicken Home to Roost, Detroit Model to Atlantic City
5 February 2015 — Black Agenda Report Oprah and Sharpton Attack Black Lives Matter Movement by BAR executive editor Glen Ford When prominent members of the Black Misleadershp Class start ranting and raving against the new movement, you know it must be doing something right. Al Sharpton and Oprah Winfrey are attempting to “infantilize the… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Jan 28, 2015: Changing the Guard in Black America, American Sniper = War Propaganda, Holder's Final Betrayal
29 January 2015 — Black Agenda Report Changing the Guard in Black America by BAR executive editor Glen Ford It’s been so long since Black America has experienced a grassroots movement, most folks don’t have a clue how to measure its success. The Black Lives Matter campaign has already accomplished a fundamental task, despite the… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for January 21, 2015: State of the Union: Lethal, Predatory, Delusional, A Black Man & the CIA
21 January 2015 — Black Agenda Report State of the Union 2016: Lethal, Predatory, Delusional by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama says things are looking up for America – which is exactly how Wall Street sees it. For the seventh time, Obama assessed the state of the nation from the perspective of a… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Jan 14, 2015: Je Suis Who? Je Suis White People?
15 January 2015 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: Charlie Hebdo: “Je Suis White People” by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Millions of citizens of one of the bloodiest empires known to man – the French colonial state – this weekend pretended to be the most enlightened, yet maligned, people on earth. “The… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for January 7, 2014: Peoples Grand Jury Indicts Ferguson Cop, Police Corruption, Mass Incarceration a Big Reality Show
7 January 2015 — Black Agenda Report Black People’s Grand Jury Indicts Cop for First Degree Murder of Michael Brown by BAR executive editor Glen Ford A mostly white grand jury, manipulated by a racist prosecutor, will not have the last word in the death of Michael Brown. “We cannot trust our children, the future… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Dec 17, 2014: Why I Don't Do Kwaanza, Getting Rid of Sharpton & Misleaders, Ferguson Echoes Round Worldwide
18 December 2014 — Black Agenda Report Why I Don’t Do Kwaanza by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Ron Karenga, the man who invented Kwaanza, headed the US organization, which was responsible for the murder of 4 Black Panthers in Southern California as a tool of COINTELPRO, and the torture of two of its… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for December 11, 2014: TFA's Trojan Horse in Ferguson, Try Killer Cops, Don't March With Sharpton
11 December 2014 — Black Agenda Report “Teach For America” Trojan Horse Among Ferguson Activists? by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Teach For America has done vast and indisputable harm to black communities across the country, funded by hundreds of millions in deep corporate pockets and tens of millions of federal dollars. Could this… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for December 3, 2014: WH Meeting on Ferguson — New Movement? Are We There Yet? Obama's Reckoning
3 December 2014 — Black Agenda Report What Did Young Activists Gain From White House Meeting? What Did the President Get? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon After sending an extra hundred FBI agents to Ferguson in the days leading up to the grand jury decision, the White House invited young activists opposing police… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for November 26, 2014: Ferguson: It's Right To Resist, Cosby & Mike Brown, Marion Barry
27 November 2014 — Black Agenda Report Ferguson: It is Right to Resist, By Any and All Means Necessary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Having failed to head off the beginnings of a Black mass movement, the Black Misleadership Class and the White House cite violence in Ferguson to discredit youthful activists. However, “any… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 20 November 2014: Economic Recovery! Only 1 in 30 US Children Homeless, Jackson, Sharpton, Holder & Ferguson
20 November 2014 — Black Agenda Report If “The Economy is Recovering” Why Is There a Surge in Homeless Children? A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Corporate media and politicians of both capitalist parties agree there is no story, no political issue on poverty or homelessness, at the same… Continue reading