| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
What a Week – Sex, No Sex, Rape by Jocks, and a March
16 Nov 2011
by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The author was with Washington DC’s Occupation movement for its first march against a U.S. government agency, the EPA – the same one with which she had fought an epic court battle on the way to passage of historic whistleblower protection legislation. “The EPA…
Kenneth J. Cooper
Medicaid “A Vital Lifeline” for African Americans and Latino Americans
16 Nov 2011
by Kenneth J. Cooper When the so-called congressional “supercommittee” makes its decision by the 23rd of this month on how to cut the budget by thousands of billions of dollars, Blacks and Latinos will be disproportionately impacted. “Cutting Medicaid will likely hit hardest at…
Ron Kipling Williams
Stolen Land, Stolen Labor, Stolen Dreams, and the Imperative of the Truth Tellers
16 Nov 2011
by Ron Kipling Williams “It is up to us, the conspiracy realists, to relentlessly speak truth to both power and people,” says the author. “If we fail in this mission there will be no one left to fight for the masses whose only linkage to news and information is through the corporate…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
When "Reforming Education" Means Destroying Communities
07 Apr 2010
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The summary firing of tens or hundreds of thousands of inner city public school teachers in the Obama administration's race to privatize education will wreak havoc on the social and civic life of communities where those public schools are located. These…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
“Stick Together” Obama Tells Black Misleadership Class At White House Conference
16 Nov 2011
The US president is the most powerful man in the world. Black unemployment was already at an all time high the day Barack Obama was sworn in. Three years into his term, there are few signs that record black unemployment, growing poverty, the wave of foreclosures centered in minority neighborhoods…
Asad Ismi
A U.S.-Made Catastrophe: Most of the Blame for the Crisis in Somalia Goes to the U.S.
09 Nov 2011
by Asad Ismi Somalia faces the worst food crisis in the world, but “the U.S. response to this catastrophe it has created in Somalia is to cut its economic aid to that country by 88%, increase drone attacks, and encourage its vassal Kenya to launch another invasion.” Since 1991 the U.S…
Jemima Pierre
Colonial War Crimes in Africa
18 May 2011
by Jemima Pierre The western-manipulated International Criminal Court, which has indicted only African leaders, tries to give the world the impression that barbarity descended on the continent when the white colonists left. But four aging Kenyan “Mau Mau” freedom fighters, demanding reparations…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Propagandized America
23 Nov 2011
by editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The United States is a nation of lies: corporate media lies in the service of State Department, Pentagon and White House lies – a congealed, fictional mass that only Americans believe. The most mundane facts of economy are corrupted…
Stop Mass Incarceration Network
20 Arrested in Stop Stop-and-Frisk Campaign in Sean Bell’s NYC Neighborhood
23 Nov 2011
Demonstrators gathered shortly before confrontation with police at the 103rd Precinct in Queens, New York. Sean Bell was killed by cops from this area in a fusillade of bullets on November 25, 2006. This was the third such direct action by the Stop Mass Incarceration Network.
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Obama Silent, Bloomberg Wrong on Constitutional Rights
23 Nov 2011
by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo New York City’s billionaire mayor polluted the moral and factual environment when he claimed concerns for public health motivated his police assault on Zuccotti Park. “If Mayor Bloomberg has suddenly developed an interest in the health of New York residents,…