| Black Agenda Report

Cynthia McKinney
McKinney: The Art of Leadership and the Fight for Justice
21 Sep 2011
by Cynthia McKinney “As the United States and NATO drop bombs on unsubmitting African people in Libya, the United States kills an innocent Black man in Georgia.” The execution of Troy Davis and the vicious Euro-American assault on Libya spring from the same historical source. “A new…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Barack’s Satan Sandwich Only The First Course: Will We Re-Hire the Chef in 2012 Anyway?
12 Aug 2011
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon President Obama's proposed debt ceiling deal makes drastic and ongoing cuts in social security, Medicare, Medicaid, aid to the education and local governments inevitable. It's the ultimate triumph of fake disaster capitalism. The very purpose of government…
Tamara K. Nopper
Why Obama’s “Black Jobs Plan” Won’t Resolve Black Unemployment
27 Sep 2011
by Tamara K. Nopper President Obama tried to give his Congressional Black Caucus Awards Dinner audience the impression that his jobs bill specifically targets 100,000 Black businesses as job incubators. In reality, the 100,000 African American firms that actually have employees will be…
Eugene Puryear
Three Lessons from the Fight to Save Troy Davis
28 Sep 2011
by Eugene Puryear A Black man’s innocence doesn’t mean a thing. One million signatures don’t mean a thing. “We are not living in a post-racial society, and President Obama won’t save us.” The only meaningful response is to massively organize against those who organized against…
Al Bilik
How to Privatize the Post Office: Piece by Piece, Step by Step
28 Sep 2011
by Al Bilik Think it would take an act of Congress to privatize the postal system? They’ve been privatizing the post office for four decades, piece by piece, step by step. It’s called “piecemeal privatization,” and it works like this.
Jemima Pierre
Our Failure on Haiti
28 Sep 2011
by BAR editor and columnist Jemima Pierre With a Black man in the White House, the African American political class has all but abandoned solidarity with Haiti. “U.S. Blacks’ hard-earned moral authority continues to deteriorate as they continue to condone—by silence and inaction—the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Dear President Ahmadinejad
28 Sep 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Americans that spoke at a New York dinner and audience with Iranian President Ahmadinejad “were very passionate about social justice issues in the United States and abroad, but unfortunately, none of them made the most essential…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Humiliates the Black Caucus – and They Pretend Not to Notice
28 Sep 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford When the going gets rough, beat up on the Blacks. That’s been a rule of American politics for many generations – so why should Barack Obama be any different? “Obama took his church voice to the Congressional Black Caucus annual awards dinner to very…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Is It Movement-Building or Is It Marketing? Rebuilding the Dream, Rebranding Van Jones
01 Jul 2011
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Van Jones and Rebuilding The Dream got lots of media, lots of praise from Democrats, lots of hate from Republoicans. But is it what it claims, a movement to confront the Tea Party, make Democrats responsible to their base, ready to fight for jobs and…
michael hureaux perez
Quo Vadis, Mr O? Or: See How He Runs
05 Oct 2011
Eshu’s blues by michael hureaux perez Some of us predicted that Obama would be bad news, but few of us could imagine how bad. “Little as we trusted him, we never thought that Barrack Obama would descend into a Nixonian charade.”