There's a fundamental crisis in U.S. journalism. Advertiser-supported news is broken and cannot be fixed. The numbers of working journalists and reporters, after declining steadily for decades, has fallen off a cliff in recent years, while the number of news gathering operations in both print and broadcast is also radically shrinking. The near disappearance of black journalism is part of the reason Black Agenda Report exists. But advertising won't carry BAR, either.
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The late Bruce Dixon, a Black Agenda Report co-founder and Managing Editor, provided this important analysis in 2018. We are told that the current composition of the Supreme Court with its…
The West, especially the U.S. has kept Haiti in a state of instability in order to achieve its imperialist aims. The violence we see today in the country is the result of the violence inflicted on it…
Panama is tightening its border policy to stop migrants from entering the country by making the conditions of migrating through the Darién Gap even more dangerous and inhumane.
From Mexico to the Mediterranean, rich countries would rather see refugees die than recognize their legal asylum rights.
In this week’s segment, we examine the difficulty marginalized communities have in securing abortion care in Tennessee, which enacted a ban on the procedure in the wake of the Dobbs decision. We also…
