| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Black Mecca: The Death of an Illusion
13 Oct 2005
Black-led and proudly black ruled for a generation, and home to more black millionaires than anyplace else besides the nation's capital, Atlanta also leads the nation in the percentage of its children in poverty. What does this say about the status of "Black Mecca"? Black Mecca, the Death…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
The Role of Black Intellectuals
11 Jan 2012
by BAR editor and columnist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo What useful function do intellectuals serve in the life of the Black community? Clearly, “it is not our role to sweep by the poor in black limousines and to smile from behind cut glass, whether diamonds or Waterford.” Nor does the…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Occupy Wall Street Joins Occupy The Dream: Is It Cooptation, or Growing the Movement?
11 Jan 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Occupy Wall Street movement has, to date, “been effective in warding off cooptation by Democratic Party fronts such as Rebuild The Dream and MoveOn.org.” But OWS’s recent alliance with Black clergy-based (and Russell Simmons-backed) Occupy The…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Pissing on Afghanistan
18 Jan 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley U.S. troops commit ceaseless atrocities against the peoples they have been sent to subdue and occupy. The victims include women, children, the elderly, the armed, the unarmed, those that run away from the Americans and those who…
James Kilgore
Business is Booming for the Prison Profiteers
11 Jan 2012
by James Kilgore Dotcoms came and went, good jobs have come and gone, but the prison industrial complex just keeps rolling along – at very high rates of return! Privatization of prisons and controlled-person services is bound to expand as public revenues for conventional mass…
Angola 3 News
Medical Self Defense And The Black Panther Party
04 Jan 2012
by Angola 3 News The U.S. State demonized the Black Panther Party as thugs bent on killing police, and even the narratives of Panther supporters tended to emphasize the Party’s paramilitary aspects. Yet the Panthers championed the people’s fundamental right to health care – a contribution explored…
Nathaniel X. Turner
Barak H. Obama, My Kenyan-American Cousin: An African-American Reflection On Genealogical Heritage
04 Jan 2012
by Nathaniel X. Turner Barack Obama has availed himself of every opportunity to signal African Americans that he feels no special bond with them – a rejection that should be reciprocated. “Obama is analogous to the white slave master that could sell his own black children…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Stopping Stop and Frisk
04 Jan 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley New York is a majority non-white city with a liberal reputation that keeps electing illiberal white mayors. Pundits often fault Blacks and Latinos for failing to find common cause, and losing by default. That may or may not have…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The GOP Savages Itself, While Wall Street Backs the Black Guy, Again
04 Jan 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Republican Party presidential campaign has been relegated to a sideshow in the American power game. The white nationalist masses recoil at the scent of Wall Street denizens like Mitt Romney. “A deeper atavism is at play in Republican ranks, a far…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Does the 2012 Election Mean Anything To African America?
05 Jan 2012
With the First Black President having put social security cuts on the bargaining table before even being sworn in, ignoring record black unemployment and mass incarceration, and doubling down on every abhorrent Bush policy from imperial wars in Asia and Africa to letting corporate polluters and…