Black Agenda Report
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Black Agenda Report 7 April, 2010: Are Blacks Sinking to New Bottom? / Burn Hollywood Burn!
The Black job market is imploding, even as the moneyed classes congratulate themselves on having “turned the corner” toward economic recovery. Alarming Black unemployment patterns indicate that “a perfect storm of racial disadvantage” has occurred. “Virtually nothing prevents the boss from acting out his prejudices and greed with impunity.” There’s nothing “post-racial” about the current… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 31 March, 2010: MLK's TV Challenge to Obama / Former ATL Mayor Fronts for Telecoms
Since the onset of the Obama phenomenon, Dr. Martin Luther King’s birth and death days have been polluted by false and ahistorical comparisons between Obama and MLK. The two men represent opposite political poles: one, a radical opponent of imperial war and concentrated economic power, the other, an ally of Wall Street and commander-in-chief of… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report – Duncan: Katrina “Best Thing That Happened” / Blacks and Net Neutrality
3 February, 2010 — Black Agenda Report How Corporate Dollars Dominate the Black and Latino Conversation on Network Neutrality by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The utter dependence of our “civil rights” organizations like the NAACP and LULAC upon corporate donations from Big Cable and the telecom industry has caused them to weigh into… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 20 January, 2010: Haiti / Obama / NAACP / NYC
Stories on Obama, Haiti, Pat Robertson, NAACP, by Glen Ford, Cynthia McKinney, John Maxwell and others Continue reading