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July 20, 2006 -- Israeli Apartheid
A brief exploration of the many similarities between the bygone apartheid regime of South Africa and its moral successor, the state of Israel.

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June 15, 2006 -- Black Caucus Caves to Corporate Power
Since black communities are shorted when it comes to cable and internet access, communications reform is definitely a black issue.  But black members of Congress actually voted in grater numbers against the interests of African Americans than did their white colleagues.

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May 11, 2006 -- The Black Stake in the Internet: Why Network Neutrality is an African American Issue
How black civic organizations are being bought up like undervalued properties by corporate telecommunications money, and what it means for the future of our communities.

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April 6, 2006 -- Portrait of a Corporate Negro Politician: Kasim Reed – Lawyer for the Rich and Racist

An examination of the recent career and shameful antics of one Kasim Reed, a local and leading Atlanta Democrat who seeks to outdo Republicans at immigrant-bashing.
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March 16, 2006 -- Blacks and Browns: The Need to Make Common Cause

America's white establishment wants to set African Americans against Latino immigrants.  But whose interest does that serve?  Not our, it looks like.
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March 2, 2006 -- Andy Young, the Shameless Son
Former Atlanta mayor, UN ambassador and member of congress Andrew Young has cashed in his civil rights chips for a career as a transnational black shill for corporate criminality.

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February 9, 2006 -- Failure of the Black Misleadership Class
The black political leadership class, which is virtuyally indistinguishable from the black business class, has utterly failed to offer any strategic vision for the uplift of the black masses upon whose backs they have risen to relative power, influence and affluence.  Do they know anything, besides how to get themselves paid?
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January 12, 2006 -- BC vs. the Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal’s online editorial pages suggest that black opinion is illegitimate whenever and wherever it disagrees with white opinion.

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October 13, 2005 -- Black Mecca: The End of an Illusion
Atlanta, which leads the nation in the production of black millionaires, also is first in the percentage of its children in poverty. Black America’s business leadership class in Atlanta and nationally definitely knows how to get paid. But does it know how to achieve health care, education, jobs and justice for African Americans? Are these concerns even on its radar?

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September 22, 2005 -- Where the Left Lives: Black America at its Core
Liberal” is a political definition used nowhere else on earth, one that conceals important differences and useful distinctions. Liberal America, which ought more precisely to be called “Left American” is clustered mainly around its centers of black population.

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September 15, 2005 -- Rescue Came From The Grassroots: the People, Not FEMA, Saved Themselves
When government failed to serve the people of Gulf Coast Alabama and Mississippi, the people had to mobilize to save themselves. Among the first responders in Alabama, the first to put truckloads of food and supplies on the road to affected areas were two organizations of Alabama ex-offenders.

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September 1, 2005 -- The Lowdown on the Down Low
Oprah Winfrey did incalculable damage to the cause of fighting the HIV-AIDS epidemic by showcasing the bogus work of author J.L. King. We explore King’s work and suggest how a TV host might have showcased the real work on the frontline of the struggle against the HIV-AIDS epidemic.

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July 29, 2005 -- Mass Incarceration is an Abomination
Should have been titled, “Mass Incarceration is a Political Abomination”. This article tries to sketch out how the issue of mass incarceration of African Americans can be made into the galvanizing issue of a new mass movement.

July 22, 2005 -- Ten Worst Places to be Black in America
Black Enterprise magazine produces, at irregular intervals, a list of the “ten best” cities for blacks, but ranks them according to criteria which have little to do with the way life is actually lived in most African American communities. What would a truly relevant index look like?

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July 8, 2005 -- It’s Time to Build a Mass Movement

We often hear it said that we need another movement comparable to that of the fifties and sixties.  What are some of the characteristics of mass movements in general, and what will the next big mass movement among African Americans look like?

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April 28, 2005 -- Corporate Biopiracy and the Terminator Seed

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An alarming account of how corporate criminals are hijacking the global food supply, and threatening the food security of a large part of humanity.


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January 6, 2005 -- Gary Webb, African American Paranoia, and the Black Consensus

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Reflections on the passing of investigative journalist Gary Webb, who broke the story of federal government complicity in engineering the crack epidemic in Los Angeles, and how it helped finance the CIA’s murderous secret wars in Central America.





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July 27, 2006

Israeli Apartheid Denounced
An Exploration of Male Privilege
Reader-Author Exchange Over “Pimpin’”

July 20, 2006

Black American Dodges the Bullet on Voting Rights
Baraka Obama Lectures Progressives for Insufficient Piety
Which Democratic Party is Barack Leading?

July 6, 2006

Miami’s Real Terrorists
The International Digital Divide
Grand Theft Corporate

June 29, 2006

Voting Rights Act Renewal Stalls in House
Cynthia McKinney Absolved
BC Readers on the CBC
The US Senate Considers Telecom Bill

June 8, 2006

How to Help Africa
Bradley’s Suckling Black Babies
Does Bush Ever Get His Groove On?

June 1, 2006


Hate Media is Mainstream in America
DeWayne Hickam is Too Kind to Racists
Where are the White Baby-Makers?
Is Something Wrong?

May 25, 2006

Hypocrites Hate on Barry Bonds
Bush Family: Give Back Geronimo’s Bonesbr>Reps. Ford and Scott Want to Take Away Your Phone Card

May 18, 2006

The CBC and “Post Civil Rights” Black Leadership
Shelby Steele & Ted Hayes: the Not So Odd Couple
Black Accomplices in Digital Highway Robbery

May 11, 2006

BC Readers Answer Michele Martin on Civility

Do Defenders of Civility Defend Cynthia McKinney?

Does Civility’s Definition Depend on Who is Defining?

May 4, 2006

Rep. Bobby Rush and Privatization of the Internet

Julianne Malveaux Sets the Record Straight

Hutchinson and Cannick Get it Wrong on Immigration

April 27, 2006

Good Race Relations Happen When Black People Shut Up or Go Away

Cynthia McKinney Asks the Questions We Want Asked

Tavis? Oh No He Didn’t?

Who’s Afraid of Bobby Rush Now?


April 20, 2006

The White Discursive “Force Field”

The Immigration “Crisis”: A Consequence of “Free Trade”

Cynthia McKinney and the Cowardly Caucus

Vouchers, Privatization, Stepping Stones: The Real Issues in Newark

April 13, 2006

Black News on the Road to Extinction

Black Politicians Who Should Go Extinct

Black Newspapers Celebrate Good Times

April 6, 2006

Cory Booker: Pimp My City!

NAFTA: Run To The Border!

McKinney: Don’t Profile Me!

March 30, 2006

Anti-immigrant Hysteria vs. Common Sense

The Neutered Black Caucus

Crash and Burn

March 23, 2006

Are Some Human Beings Illegal?

Did Immigrants Shut Down US Manufacturing Jobs?

What’s Behind Tavis’s Smile?

March 16, 2006

Walkin’ To New Orleans

Uphold the Rights to Return, Rebuild andRemain

Progressive Forces in Motion

March 9, 2006

Tavis is a Marketer, Not a Movement Leader

Andrew Young Misspends the Movement’s Moral Capital

BC Answers a Hater

March 2, 2006

Brand Name” Black Folks

Wal-Mart Worshipers and Acolytes

Katrina: The Greatest Shock of All

February 23, 2006

Halliburton’s “Immigration Emergency” Detention Centers

Legislative Leaders are Campaign Cash Funnels

The Performance of Black Leaders

February 16, 2006

First Annual Lawn Jockey Awards: They’re Off and Running

Rep. Harold Ford and King Funeral Fabrications

More on “Failures of the Black Misleadership Class

February 9, 2006

No White “Victims of Racism”

No More “Theories” of Down Lowness

No Peace for CBC Derelicts

February 2, 2006

Oprah’s Protect-The-Brand Strategy

The Two Democratic Parties

Mass Incarceration and Economic Development

Fetishizing the United Nations

January 26, 2006

Belafonte: One of the Tallest Trees in the Forest

More on Chocolate Cities

A Rent-A-Negro for the US Senate

January 19, 2006

Does ‘Black Medicine’ Work For Whites?

Bush Regime: An Equal Opportunity Destroyer

Is BC “Harshly Leftist”?

January 5, 2006

Do “War People” Exist?

Does Condi Deserve Loyalty?

Black Mayors Don’t Get a Pass

December 15, 2005

Obama’s Mushy Mouth

Condoleeza Rice’s “Torture Tour”

Hispanic Identity: What Do Blacks Say About It?

The Dogs of War: Who Let Them Loose?

December 8, 2005

Spineless Minions of the Democratic Party

Preying on the Vulnerability of the Poor

Losing Moral Courage to Corporate Bag Men

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November 29, 2006
Current public opinion polling in Iraq reveals that 60% of Iraqis think it's OK to shoot at American soldiers in their country.
What do you do in a country where 6 out of 10 people want to see you dead?
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End Game in Iraq
by GLEN FORD
November 22, 2006
NY Congressman Charlie Rangel, one of the two most senior and powerful members of the Congressional Black Caucus, is pushing a bill to reinstate the military draft, with no deferments and no exceptions.
What’s that about?
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A Military Draft Would Cripple US War Plans
by GLEN FORD
November 15, 2006
The King monument in DC will cost $200 million.
But America spends next to nothing on solving the problems of poverty and want that defined his legacy.
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Millions on Monuments, Pennies on People
by GLEN FORD
November 15, 2006
The HBO documentary "Hacking Democracy reveals that voting machines and the programs that run them can not only ADD votes, but SUBTRACT them too.
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to Subtracting the Vote
by BRUCE DIXON
November 8, 2006
What is facism?
What would home-grown American facism look like, and how close is it right now?
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American Facism
by GLEN FORD
November 8, 2006
The so-called war on terror is a palpable fraud. It is enemy propaganda that leaves us no choice but to vote for the politicians who can scare us the most. This is a contest Democrats cannot win and should not play. And we must not let them.
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to Ending the So-Called "War on Terror"
by BRUCE DIXON
November 1, 2006
AMERICAN GENOCIDE

When Columbus invaded America there were more than 15 million native Americans in what is now the U.S. By 1890 there were 300,000, a 97% death rate. Our nation sits on the bones on one of the greatest genocides in human history.
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THE ALL-AMERICAN GENOCIDE
by GLEN FORD
November 1, 2006
WHERE IS THE BLACK CHURCH ON IRAQ?

African Americans overwhelmingly oppose the war in IRaq, and have done so since its beginning. 650,000 Iraqis are now dead, compared to less than 3,000 Americans, a ratio of 200 to 1. Why then, do we allow black preachers in black churches to pray every Sunday ONLY for the Americans “in harm's way” and not for the other 99% of the dead, who are Iraqis?.
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to WHERE IS THE BLACK CHURCH ON IRAQ
by BRUCE DIXON

October 25, 2006
MYTH OF THE MELTING POT

White Americans frequently celebrate the US as a “Melting Pot”. The phrase is actually taken from an early 20th century play that lauds the US as a “melting pot” for it called the “races” of Europe alone, transforming them into what we now call “white” Americans.
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MYTH OF THE MELTING POT
by GLEN FORD

October 25, 2006
WAR IS THE HEALTH OFTHE STATE

America's leaders need war, like vampires need blood. Even if it's war on a noun.
In fact, in an era where politicians create and exploit fear to stay in power, the so-called “war on terror” is an invaluable political tool, something they cannot do without.
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to WAR IS THE HEALTH OF THE STATE
by BRUCE DIXON

New this week in Black Agenda Report
11-28-06
Freedom Rider: Black Lovers of White Supremacy by Margaret Kimberley
11-28-06
How Many Votes Were Stolen or Supressed This November? by Bruce Dixon
11-28-06
Israel: The Heart of Darkness by Clinton L. Cox
11-28-06
That N-Word Again by Rev. Irene Monroe
11-28-06
Gangster Capitalism& the Third Maroon War by John Maxwell
Previously in Black Agenda Report
11-22-2006
Freedom Rider -- Torturing White America
by Margaret Kimberley
11-22-2006
Dirty Business As Usual
by William Lucy
11-22-2006
Sistas, Where is Thy Victory?
by Thandisizwe Chimurenga
11-22-2006
Escalating Downward: The Collapse of Urban Public Schooling
by Floyd W. Hayes III Ph.D.
11-15-2006
Freedom Rider -- Last Look at the 2006 Election 
by Margaret Kimberley
11-15-2006
Bruce's Beat:  Reader Email Answered 
by Bruce Dixon
11-15-2006
1,000 Words
 
Harold Ford on Election Day 
11-15-2006
The World Exhales
by John Maxwell
11-15-2006
Justifications For Slavery
by Jacqueline Bacon
11-15-2006
The Myth of Black Womens' Progress
by Tamara K. Nopper
11-08-2006
Freedom Rider -- Media in the Tank for Bush
by Margaret Kimberley
11-08-2006
Electing America's First Black President by Proxy Vote
by Marjorie Fields Harris
11-08-2006
Reggae Music is Not All One Love
by Jasmyne Cannick
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11-01-2006
Let Black Democrats Be Black
 Meet the New Boss
by Glen Ford
11-01-2006
Freedom Rider - How to Steal an Election
by Margaret Kimberley
11-01-2006
CBC Monitor -- Burying Rep. Mel Watt (D. NC)
by Leutisha Stills
11-01-2006
The People of Chicago VS Wal-Mart
by Paul Street
11-01-2006
1,000 Words

Photography by Yvonne King Photography by Yvonne King
from the 40th anniversary celebration of the Black Panther Party
11-01-2006
Teaching Racism: Steeped in Stupid
by Bernestine Singley
11-01-2006
The Niggerization of Palestine
by Jonathan Scott
11-01-2006
Nonviolence or No? Still Time To Decide
by Greg Moses
11-01-2006
Nukes in New Zealand?
by Jonathan David Farley, D.Phil
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