23 October 2014 — Black Agenda Report Detroit: The Dispersal of Urban Black America Begins by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Detroit’s bankruptcy drama is a cover for ethnic and class cleansing. The city’s accelerated Black-removal plan came under scrutiny of United Nations rapporteurs, who found evidence of racial discrimination and human rights abuses. “The… Continue reading

15 October 2014 — Black Agenda Report Obama’s Cynical, Stilted Response to Ebola vs. Cuba’s Magnificent Mobilization by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama initially offered Ebola-afflicted West Africa “a paltry $22 million to set up a 25-bed field hospital in Liberia at a time when literally thousands of beds – and health care… Continue reading

24 September 2014 — Black Agenda Report Will America’s Black Political Class Join In the Spoils of the Rape of Congo? Andy Young & Jesse Jackson Say It’s OK. By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The table set with the loot from 5 million dead in neighboring Congo, the largest genocide on earth since… Continue reading

17 September 2014 — Black Agenda Report Naming-and-Shaming the Black Caucus by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Silence implies assent, which is why activists in Washington, DC, will loudly and clearly denounce the Congressional Black Caucus for its collective crimes against Black people, social justice and the cause of world peace. The “Shame on the… Continue reading

10 September 2014 — Black Agenda Report The Treasonous 32: Four-Fifths of Black Caucus Help Cops Murder Their Constituents by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Fully 80 percent of the 40 voting members of the Congressional Black Caucus refused to defund the Pentagon’s militarization of local police departments. That means, 32 Black lawmakers are “conscious… Continue reading

27 August 2014 — Black Agenda Report To Zombie Civil Rights Organizations: Don’t Like Being Called Sellouts? Then Don’t Sell Out by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon An August 11 letter published by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson in the newsletter of MMTC, a notorious mouthpiece of corporate telecoms protests that this and other publications,… Continue reading

20 August 2014 — Black Agenda Report Ferguson Versus the Counter-Insurgency State  by BAR executive editor Glen Ford If the people of Ferguson, Missouri, had remained “calm” in the police killing of Michael Brown, the nation would not be discussing the “militarization” of the police forces. “All the nation’s police departments are following the same… Continue reading

6 August 2014 — Black Agenda Report Time For The CBC and our Black Political Class Denounce Apartheid and Ethnocracy in Israel-Palestine  by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The contradiction between the supposed origin of our black political class out of the struggle against Jim Crow and its collaboration with Israeli apartheid can’t be… Continue reading

23 July 2014 — Black Agenda Report Why Our Black Political Class is Paralyzed and Silent on Gaza Massacres and Israeli Apartheid by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon How did the NAACP wrap up its national conference this weekend without saying a mumbling word about the genocidal bombing of Gaza? Why did Moral Monday’s… Continue reading

16 July 2014 — Black Agenda Report What Corporate Media and Corporate Latino Politicians Won’t Tell You About Central American Child Refugees by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Why can’t Latino politicians and corporate media call the current wave of Central American children refugees, when that’s what they plainly are? What’s the role of… Continue reading

9 July 2014 — Black Agenda Report Political Prisoner Imam Jamil Al-Amin in Declining Health, Urgently Needs Medical Care By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Politcal prisoner Imam Jamil Al-Amin was one of the leading lights of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960s rural Alabama. Wrongfully accused and falsely convicted of murder… Continue reading

2 July 2014 — Black Agenda Report The Superpower and the Caliphate  by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Don’t believe the hype that the CIA is behind ISIS’s declaration of an Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. “The Caliphate threatens, not only its immediate adversaries, but the potentates of the Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and… Continue reading

25 June 2014 — Black Agenda Report Serial School Privatizer “Chainsaw Paul” Vallas Gets Ready For His Next Job  by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Neoliberalism holds that all human interactions should to be disciplined and mediated by the market. Paul Vallas is the nation’s neoliberal chainsaw man on public education. After savaging public… Continue reading

18 June 2014 — Black Agenda Report Top 10 Reasons Why Corporate Social Media is Not Your Friend, and Dark Social Media Is  by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon For a long time now, we’ve all been told, and have told each other, that corporate social media is the way to build businesses, audiences… Continue reading

4 June 2014 — Black Agenda Report Black Lobbyists, Black Legislators Leverage Their “Brands” For Banksters, Military Contractors, Corporate Interests by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When black politics emanated from the streets, not the suites, it was a force against imperial war, for full employment, better housing and public education. But now, black… Continue reading

28 May 2014 — Black Agenda Report One Year After Chicago Closes 50 Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union Assesses the Lies and Lasting Damage  A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon A couple years ago, we at Black Agenda Report wondered why the closings of 40 public schools over three… Continue reading

21 May 2014 — Black Agenda Report This Week in Black Agenda Report Always Low Wages, More Pollution: Why Barack & Michelle Obama Relentlessly Shill For Wal-Mart By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Democrats in labor unions and figures like former Labor Secretary Robert Reich and others were justly outraged at Barack Obama’s latest… Continue reading