| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Which Way On Low-Power Urban FM Radio - The Next Test for the Congressional Black Caucus
21 Jun 2007
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Any day now, the U.S. Congress will decide if the corporate media stranglehold on radio will be loosened by allowing community groups to operate low-power FM (LP-FM) radio stations at hundreds of locations. Black grassroots politics has been…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: “The Black Kid was Driving”
01 Aug 2007
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Banning Saggy Pants is the Wrong Conversation. Low Power Community Radio is the Right Conversation
12 Sep 2007
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Local lawmakers in Atlanta, Dallas and other cities pretend to address crime and destructive aspects of corporate-delivered youth culture by targeting the appearance of black youth --- with local ordinances to file or jail the wearers of sagging pants and exposed…
Adolph Reed
Where Obamaism Seems to be Going
16 Jul 2008
by Adolph Reed, Jr. Prof. Reed takes us on a tour de force of transformations and other illusions associated with the Barack Obama phenomenon, as interpreted, conjured or hallucinated by the "left" - whoever that is. These certainly may be the End Days - but for what political tendencies? Will "…
Tyrone R. Simpson II
Barack Obama and the Abuse of Black Fathers
23 Jul 2008
by Tyrone Simpson The author, a successful academic and loving husband, isn't sure he will ever become a father - and Barack Obama's "diatribe about absent black fathers" isn't helping matters. Obama's Fathers Day speech, reminiscent of the insults against Black life hurled by the late Daniel…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The Other Black Radio, Part One of a Series: North Carolina Voices for Justice
09 Apr 2008
When, for the first time in decades, the FCC opened up a licensing window for new full-power FM community radio stations, mostly in rural areas around the country, the Pacifica Foundation, Prometheus Radio and several other outfits made a specific attempt to raise the number of African…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The Black Stake, and All Our Stakes, in the Media Justice Movement, Part 1 of 2
25 Jun 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Mass media determine public consciousness. But in the US, where mass media are owned and operated almost entirely by and in the interest of a greedy and irresponsible corporate elite, who keep the issues of control and governance of the internet, cable,…
Seth Sandronsky
Locking Up Surplus American Labor
13 Dec 2006
by Seth SandroskyUS prisons are where the labor force is going, argues Seth Sandrosky, and increasingly where manufacturers and investors are looking. Get ready for it.
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The Black Stake in the Internet
11 May 2006
What does telecom policy have to do with African American communities? The Black Stake in the Internet Net Neutrality is a Black Issue By Bruce Dixon
Bill Quigley
Criminal Justice Meltdown in New Orleans?
31 Oct 2007
The criminal justice system of New Orleans can hardly claim to be a system, at all. Thousands of prisoners are released because no one can figure out what to charge them with, while huge numbers of others languish behind bars because they can't make even relatively low bail. The city's murder rate…