Black Agenda Report

  • Black Agenda Report 10 December 2020

    10 December 2020 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: Black Demands for the Biden Administration  Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist  The Black Misleaders give the impression of exercising black empowerment when they are in fact only promoting themselves. Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 3 December 2020

    3 December 2020 — Black Agenda Report BLM Chapters Demand “Accountability” from Trio that Cashed in on the Movement  Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor  Ten chapters of the national Black Lives Matter organization are in open revolt against the individuals that have treated the mass movement as their personal vehicle for upward political, professional and financial Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 26 November 2020

    26 November 2020 — Black Agenda Report Biden, the Emcee at the Billionaires’ Ball  Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor  The Lords of Capital use periods of crisis to devour the less-rich and reshape the political economy to their further advantage, so that the Joe Bidens of the world jump higher and come quicker when summoned. Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 12 November 2020

    12 November 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Voters: “Contrarian” Men and “Communal” Women  Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor A significant portion of Black males are “contrarians” that take positions at odds with the general Black political consensus – while Black women tend to take the communal approach. Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report for 28 October 2020

    29 October 2020 — Black Agenda Report The Billionaires’ Duopoly Wins on Tuesday  Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor Allegiance to the Democratic half of the duopoly – whether active or passive – is still allegiance to corporate rule, not a strategy for transformative change. Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report for 21 October 2020

    21 October 2020 — Black Agenda Report Peace, Black Self-Determination, and the Duopoly Trap  Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor  Corporate institutions and their Black servants conspire to hide the fact that the Black American worldview is profoundly Left on issues of peace and social justice. Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 19, 2020

    19 October 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 19, 2020  Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford  Protests in Minneapolis Disrupted by Orange-Shirted “Collaborators” with Cops / Anti-Blackness Spread by Global Capital / LGBTQ Newsletter Surveys Prison Conditions Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 15 October 2020

    15 October 2020 — Black Agenda Report The Useful Tool: Kamala “Heartbeat Away” Harris  Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor  If Biden wins, Kamala Harris will be put forward as a kind of “co-president,” as a palliative for the lack of substantive relief from the forces that are plaguing Black lives. Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 8 October 2020

    8 October 2020 — Black Agenda Report Bidens and Trumps, Foxes and Wolves Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor The fox and wolf parties – both corporate canines – debate how best to acclimate the masses to their deepening state of precarity. Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 1 October 2020

    1 October 2020 — Black Agenda Report Who is Rwanda’s Real Hero? Paul Kagame or Paul Rusesabagina? Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor What Kagame has done to Rusesabagina, of Hotel Rwanda fame, embarrasses the US foreign policy establishment that has lionized his brutal regime for so long. The Politics That Led to the “Worst Debate”  Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 24 September 2020

    24 September 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 21, 2020  Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor  The New York Times and fellow corporate media discourage Americans from organizing against the rule of the rich by pretending that People Power is a fantasy. Freedom Rider: The Democrats’ Supreme Failure  Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 17 September 2020

    17 September 2020 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: Democrats’ Climate Change Lies  Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist The Republicans lie about the harm they do to the planet, and the Democrats lie and pretend they’re not doing the very same things. Tribute to Kevin Zeese: Life and Loss in the Struggle for Liberation  Danny Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 14, 2020

    14 September 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 14, 2020 Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford  Only Community Control Can Stop Police Atrocities / Capitalism and Racism Entwined / First and Foremost, Malcolm X Was “Black Minded” Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 9 September 2020

    9 September 2020 — Black Agenda Report Sept 19: A Nationwide Day of Protest, and of Dialogue on Community Control of Police Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor  Community control puts us on the path to both defunding and abolishing the police – so why are many  Black Lives Matter chapters withholding support? Freedom Rider: Losers, Suckers Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 2 September 2020: The U.S. Is a Racist Militia / The Difference between the CPC and the DNC? …

    2 September 2020 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: The U.S. Is a Racist Militia Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist U.S. cops are already racist and brutal, and any militia “infiltrators” would feel right at home. The Difference between the CPC and the DNC? A Study of Politics Versus Personalities Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 31, 2020

    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford  White Capitalist Law vs “Uncontrollable Blackness” / The Black Geography of HIV-AIDS / Biography of a Largely Forgotten Black Political Giant Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 27 August 2020

    27 August 2020 — Black Agenda Report Biden Offers Nothing But More War, Austerity and White Supremacy – Without Trump  Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor  Biden is an unreconstructed racist and warmonger who has been in the forefront of austerity, and Harris is a party hack and mass Black incarcerator who became a prosecutor with Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Radio for 24 August 2020

    25 August 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford Creating Ownership, Equity and Income for College Athletes / To Ignore Political Prisoners is Hypocrisy / Getting Out the Word: #PrisonsKill / Media Revelations Spur Covid Cleanup in Cali Prison Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 19 August 2020

    19 August 2020 — Black Agenda Report Free All Political Prisoners – and Say Their Names! Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor It is righteous and correct to say the names of victims of police violence, but we must also “Say the names!” of our living political prisoners. Freedom Rider: “Feet to the Fire” and Other Continue reading

  • Black Agenda Report 12 August 2020

    12 August 2020 — Black Agenda Report Backtracking on George Floyd Promises: The Minneapolis Police Name-Change Con Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor When Black Lives Matter chapters demand “abolition” and “defunding” of the police, rather than community control of the cops, they play into the hands of charlatans and misleaders on city councils and in the Continue reading