| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
From Occupying the Financial Districts to Occupying the Goods in Our Hoods
12 Oct 2011
When and how will the street corner “occupations” in progress around the country, mostly consisting of young and newly poor whites, connect with black, brown and poor communities who have been here all along. Our managing editor reports from Occupy Chicago
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama Perfects Right Wing Policy
09 Nov 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley “The president is happiest when John Boehner and the Republicans come to the negotiating table but that is when the rest of us are most at risk.” In his quest for a Grand Bargain with the GOP, Obama has declared war against every…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Thank Obama for the Occupy Wall Street Movement
10 Nov 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Occupy Wall Street movement probably would not have caught fire if President Obama “had not lost his last stitch of emperor’s clothes this past spring and summer” trying to make a “Grand Bargain” with the GOP over the dead body of the New Deal. The…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Rigged Games: Obama's Fake “Jobs Bill” is Election-Year Theater
09 Nov 2011
Does the president's months-long refrain about passing his “jobs bill” mean anything at all? Do Democrats even want to pass it, and if they did, would it make a difference? And if it's nothing but a fake jobs bill, why are Republicans opposing it?
Gary Olson
Awakening From Obama's Seductive Spell
14 Apr 2011
by Gary Olson Barack Obama is no mystery to Paul Street. His new book “documents that Obama has been consistently to the right of center throughout his public career and is doing what he was groomed to do.” The same policies that were deemed so noxious under a white Texan, George W. Bush, “…
Kalundi Serumaga
West Makes Ivory Coast Safe for Cocoa
14 Apr 2011
by Kalundi Serumaga At the heart of the conflict over the presidency of Ivory Coast is the question: who is a legitimate citizen of a country whose economy has pulled in millions of workers from around the region? A deeper problem: “Should Africans embrace the artificialities in which they…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Earth Day is for Black People
14 Apr 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley In the minds of some, Earth Day is a throwback to the “flower politics” of another age. But “the dangers of global climate change are worse than any calamity that was imagined in the 1960s and 1970s.” Multitudinous and overlapping…
Nathaniel X. Turner
Barack Obama: Our Barabbas, an Assimilated Mess of Pottage
20 Apr 2011
Nathaniel X. Turner “Just as Esau in his day sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, we have come to pretend that a race-neutral pathological liar and finance capital callboy and his status-striven wife hold the answers to our destiny as a people.” Esau never regained his inheritance, and…
Kamau Franklin
An Ivory Tower Assassination of Malcolm X
20 Apr 2011
by Kamau K. Franklin Although much of the negative reaction to the late Manning Marable’s new bio of Malcolm X revolves around the book’s rehashed allegations of Malcolm’s homosexuality, the recasting of the slain leader’s core political beliefs is more disturbing. “Marable’s backers say he…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Don’t Vote for Democrats
20 Apr 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Every day it becomes clearer that Democrats and Republicans are united in resisting the will and material interests of the people. “The issue of real importance to them is maintaining the empire, and that means destroying what little is left…