| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Attack of the Cruise Missile Liberals
30 Mar 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Americans are warlike – as long as they think they can be victorious. These nominal Democrats and Republicans “differ only on who they want to see doing the dominating.” Today, a Black Democrat is the head killer in charge, allowing…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
NNPA: Black America's Watchdogs, Or Lapdogs For AT&T?
23 Mar 2011
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon On March 21 AT&T announced its intent to gobble up T-Mobile and control, with Verizon, three quarters of the US cellular market and most of the wireless internet. NNPA, representing 200 local black newspapers, serving corporate power instead of local…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
NNPA Defends Endorsement of Predatory AT&T -T-Mobile Merger. And We Answer
30 Mar 2011
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon What's the mission of the black press? To hear Walter Smith, CEO of the NY Beacon and NNPA Budget Chairman, it's to rep their advertisers, and increase their “corporate visibility.” What happened to informing the pubic, to defending the interests of black…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
When Didn't You Know It, Poet? -- A Black Poet Answers Amiri Baraka
30 Mar 2011
By Raymond Nathaniel Turner Lots of people noticed when poet Amiri Baraka finally awoke from his Obamaphilic trance last week to issue “The New Invasion of Africa.” Raymond Nathaniel Turner, impresario of Oakland's Upsrurge jazz Ensemble offer's this poetic answer to Baraka's question, “...When…
The Editors
Stop the AT&T - T-Mobile Merger - Petition the Justice Dept, FCC, Congressional & State Black Caucuses
30 Mar 2011
We demand that the proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile, be halted, whether by the U.S. Department of Justice on anti-trust grounds, by the Federal Communications Commission on public interest grounds, or by the Congress.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama’s North African War Face
30 Mar 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Whatever happens to Moammar Gaddafi, an independent Libya is not on the U.S. agenda. “Obama hopes to ‘stabilize’ Libya under indirect U.S. dominion through a kind of protectorate involving various ‘international’ entities, on the Haitian model.” The president’s…
Cynthia McKinney
President Obama Gets His Groove Back By Attacking Africans
06 Apr 2011
by Cynthia McKinney “Even I could not imagine that it would get this bad” under Barack Obama, writes Cynthia McKinney, former Georgia congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate. Abroad, the First Black President murders whole nations and peoples. At home, “Blacks are slipping…
Jordan Flaherty
Jena Six Activist Convicted, Faces Decades in Prison
06 Apr 2011
by Jordan Flaherty In what appears to be a Twenty-first Century example of White Power’s revenge, a key personality in the Jena Six case awaits sentencing on drug charges. Catrina Wallace was among a dozen Black people arrested in Jena, Louisiana, in an air-and-land assault by law…
Linn Washington
Incarceration Nation
06 Apr 2011
by Linn Washington, Jr. Mass Black incarceration is a kind of “punitive backlash” against the gains of the Sixties, and only a "a major social movement" can challenge it. Nowhere on the planet is mass imprisonment more entrenched than in the United States. "The U.S. imprisons more…
Sikivu Hutchinson
Defending ‘Our Mother’s Gardens’
06 Apr 2011
by Sikivu Hutchinson On a host of fronts, the counter-revolution is on the offensive against “the revolutionary right of women to control their own destinies.” Under U.S. House legislation, anti-abortion booby-traps are embedded in the tax code, as entrapments. “Women who are audited…