| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
How Many Votes Were Stolen or Suppressed in 2006? We May Never Know. Unless We Investigate
28 Nov 2006
How Many Votes Were Stolen or Suppressed in 2006? We May Never Know. Unless We Investigate by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon "...roughly 3 million Democratic votes in November 2006 appear to have been cast but not counted, or shifted to the Republican column" You'd barely know it from inside…
Bill Quigley
Running to the Right: Barack Obama and the DLC Strategy
07 May 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce DixonThe fragility of Barack Obama's DLC-inspired electoral strategy is now exposed for all to see. Obama has chosen to “reach out” to white and Republican voters while challenging none of their assumptions about America, racism or empire, at the same time, counting…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Slow Death in Gaza
04 Jun 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Each American claim to moral authority becomes a foul excretion in light of U.S. complicity in Israel's barbaric and illegal treatment of the Palestinians. Washington deploys its superpower apparatus to smother dissent against its Middle East…
Bill Quigley
Lions, Heroes, CNN and Mulattoes
30 Jul 2008
by Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. the Seven Foot Poet Those who watched, or endured the blizzard of stereotypes and right wing talking points that was CNN's "special" on Black America, the Seven Foot Poet tells us, got just about what they should have expected. CNN is Big Media. It's…
Bill Quigley
Press Rights: If Only the Truth Were Known…
06 Aug 2008
Normal 0 by John Maxwell The author, with nearly 60 years of reporting under his belt, reflects on the state of journalistic freedom in his native Jamaica and elsewhere in the world. Mr. Maxwell is keen to distinguish between the "freedom" of the owners to publish what they wish, and the…
Bill Quigley
Black Teacher, White School: It’s Always About Race
10 Jul 2007
by BAR contributing editor Margaret O'Connor A Black teacher's sojourn in white-dominated school systems can kill the soul, and erase a career. After years of trying to find "race neutral" fields of study, the author discovered that white students could not forgive her for "always talking about…
Bill Quigley
Black Teacher, White School: It’s Always About Race
10 Jul 2007
by BAR contributing editor Margaret O'Connor A Black teacher's sojourn in white-dominated school systems can kill the soul, and erase a career. After years of trying to find "race neutral" fields of study, the author discovered that white students could not forgive her for "always talking about…
Margaret O'Connor
Black Teacher, White School: It’s Always About Race
11 Jul 2007
by BAR contributing editor Margaret O'Connor A Black teacher's sojourn in white-dominated school systems can kill the soul, and erase a career. After years of trying to find "race neutral" fields of study, the author discovered that white students could not forgive her for "always talking about…
Bill Quigley
AIDS is a Global Independence Struggle for Black Women: Gender Matters
11 Jul 2007
by BAR contributing editor Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich The disease that is ravishing Africa and African Americans, AIDS, is vectored by sexual inequality. Millions die because of the unspoken truth: men spread the disease, and women are helpless to resist infection. Any effective anti-AIDS program…
Bill Quigley
Out of America: Or How I Became a Marxist
11 Jul 2007
by BAR contributing editor Betty Wamalwa Muragori What does an African woman know about Black America? A lot, and all of it surprised the hell out of her. Ms. Muragori arrived in the U.S. with the idea that a highly developed economy bred highly developed people. Not so. "Human beings may have…