| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The Media and the Murder of Aiyanna Jones
27 May 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson During the same week that CNN aired a program on children’s perception of the race and social values, the Detroit police provided their own lesson on the subject, callously killing a 7 year-old Black girl. Any kid might conclude that Aiyanna Jones was not a valuable person…
Bill Quigley
The GOP’s Rebel Yell
14 Apr 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson The Tea Partyers are set to refloat the old 1994 “Contract with America” as part of their general right wing offensive. The New Confederates vow to wage decisive war against the Obama administration’s imaginary “socialism.” So far, the Right’s “junkyard thuggery” seems to be…
Sikivu Hutchinson
Mob Rules: Tea Party’s High Noon
31 Mar 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson The unfortunately undead lurch out of America’s racial horror houses to reclaim the land for the White Man. Corporate media and the GOP confer respectability to the Old Confederacy’s second coming (did it ever leave?). “The freshly evangelized macho racist right has ensured…
Sikivu Hutchinson
International Women’s Day: Iran and The Global Struggle for Women’s Liberation
17 Mar 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson The western model, or perception, of feminism has limited utility to women living under Muslim fundamentalist rule in nations in conflict with U.S. imperialism. Some women so situated find direct connections with women of color who are exploited in multiple ways in the…
Bill Quigley
Mainstream Media’s Tea Party Tryst
03 Feb 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson White nationalism is the permanent American “populist” movement, one that never truly goes away. “Thinly disguised as saber rattling against big government, race-baiting propaganda has been revitalized as the Republican strategy for taking back the country.”
Bill Quigley
Call Me Barry: Obama’s Tough Love
16 Dec 2009
by Sikivu Hutchinson The days of “Say it loud, I’m Black and I’m proud” are no more. Young African Americans in search of work find their heritage a hopeless drag on upward mobility. “Obama’s Talented Tenth magic,” it appears, does not rub off. “In some instances, graduates of historically black…
Bill Quigley
DNA and “the Banality of Evil”
21 Jul 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson First, the criminal justice system failed the Black victims of an LA serial killer. Now, the system embraces a family DNA aggregator approach that is certain to further stigmatize African Americans through shared genetic markers. “The wholesale over-incarceration of African…
Bill Quigley
Barack Obama's Not-So Non-Ideological Inaugural Address
28 Jan 2009
by Paul Street The new president dismisses "ideology" in order to promote his own brand of neo-liberalism. He is a partisan in the corporate war-against-all who slimes the opposition as purveyors of "dogma," "stale" ideas and "tired" recriminations, a proponent of government "that works" who…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Glen Ford: “The Re-Awakening of Arab Nationalism is a Gargantuan Problem for U.S. Imperialism”
09 Mar 2011
The editors The United States is finding it impossible to devise a coherent policy in the Arab world “because the very existence of a resurgent Arab nationalism eliminates a whole range of options for the United States and the Europeans,” said BAR executive editor Glen Ford, at a conference of…
Bill Quigley
Israel’s Secret Nuclear Alliance with Racist South Africa
27 May 2010
by Stephen Gowans In the mid-70s, the world’s two pariah states, Israel and South Africa, sought to seal their relationship with a nuclear kiss. A new book claims Israel tried to sell South Africa nuclear-tipped missiles – the price was too high. Israel denies the charge, but Tel Aviv…