| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Why Isn't Closing 40 Philadelphia Public Schools National News? Where Is the Black Political Class?
25 Apr 2012
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon If some racist made an inappropriate remark about the First Lady or her children our national "civil rights leaders" Obama fans all of them, would be all over that. But standing up for ordinary black children is something our leaders just don't do much any…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Incarceration = Cash + Counterinsurgency
30 Apr 2012
Bill Quigley
Africom - Latest U.S. Bid to Recolonize Continent
13 Jan 2010
The United States is poised to recolonize the African continent through the U.S. Africa Command, Africom, “an army that can subdue any attempts by Africa to show its own military prowess.” The purpose is to ensure “that governments in each country are run by people who toe” the U.S. line, and…
Lynne Stewart
Political Prisoner Lynn Stewart on May Day
02 May 2012
by Lynne Stewart On May Day, most especially, the oppressed should remember that “It is the same old white power structure that exploits both labor and race and racial differences for their own advancement.” The task is to “demonstrate convincingly that all the media and all the tricks…
Mark P. Fancher
Beware the Rotten Fruit of AFRICOM Training
02 May 2012
by Mark P. Fancher The U.S. military command in Africa, AFRICOM, has trained thousands of officers on the continent, including the young captain that overthrew his own government in Mali, this year. “If AFRICOM’s protégés have taken careful note of how the U.S. military is routinely…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Journalists in Bed with the President
02 May 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley A good time was had by all at the White House correspondents’ dinner. And why not? The corporate media and the White House both serve the same masters: corporate power and U.S. empire. “Is it any wonder that the New York Times,…
Vijay Prashad
You Can Vote, But You Can't Work
02 May 2012
by Vijay Prashad People’s yearnings and destiny make them strive for human rights, while an encrusted and decaying neoliberal capitalism provides neither civil rights nor the material necessities of civilized existence. The old order is done, although not yet gone. “Neo-liberalism is…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Protesting NATO
09 May 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The NATO summit meeting later this month, in Chicago, will be the place “where new Obama administration restrictions on civil liberties will be put into full effect.” Nevertheless, it is necessary to protest NATO’s role as “the…
Dady Chery
Poor Little Haiti to be Fleeced of its Riches
09 May 2012
by Dady Chery Haiti’s mineral wealth is marked for super-exploitation by a Canadian corporation that has already wreaked havoc in the neighboring Dominican Republic. Mining companies claim the gold and silver reserves were only recently discovered, but “the story could just as well be…
Ezili Danto
Not Voting for Obama: We're Not Even Buying a Voting Ticket to the Show
09 May 2012
by Ezili Dantò The author supported Obama in 2008, for the sake of Haiti, the U.S. and the world. But no more. “Under the Obama tenure, indefinite military detention of U.S. citizens is lawful in the land of the free and the brave and Haitians are saddled with George Bush and Bill…