| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Does the Black Political Class Actually Protect or Defend Black People? If Not, What Do They Do?
10 May 2012
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Do the black political class, our preachers, leading business people, and thousands of appointed and elected officials actually do us much good? Do they protect or defend us? Do they carry our wishes and will to the seats of power. Or do they just “represent”…
Bill Quigley
Why Cuba Is Exporting Health Care to the U.S.
13 Jun 2007
by Sarah van Gelder Why is Cuba exporting its health care miracle to the world’s poor? Cuba's people are as healthy as many of the world's wealthiest countries although they spend a fraction of the amount on health care. And by sending doctors around the world and training medical students…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Non-Campaign of 2012
16 May 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The biggest bank in the nation loses billions betting on derivatives, but the media are more concerned to report “which celebrities support gay marriage and which do not.” A symbolic comment on gays rates higher than issues of war…
Stop Mass Incarceration Network
Activist Calls Controversial New York Judge "White Racist Pig," Sent to Jail
16 May 2012
by Stop Mass Incarceration Network The second of three major Stop Stop-and-Frisk trials resulted in one brave defendant being sentenced to ten days in jail for calling the judge a “white racist pig.” Christina Gonzalez had reason to form that opinion, since the judge once wrote a hate…
Bill Quigley
Five Reasons Drone Assassinations Are Illegal
16 May 2012
by Bill Quigley The United States is engaged in assassination and war crimes by drones in at least five nations around the globe, in violation of both U.S. and international law. It is a campaign of “extrajudicial ultimate death for people who have not been convicted of anything.” Barbarically, “…
Dave Lindorff
Did the White House Direct the Police Crackdown on Occupy?
16 May 2012
by Dave Lindorff While methodically mobilizing the Democratic Party’s left wing to politically co-opt the movement, the Obama administration simultaneously schemed with law enforcement to “disrupt and crush the Occupy Movement.” Heavily redacted documents from the Department of…
Jemima Pierre
Black Solidarity With Palestine
16 May 2012
by BAR editor and columnist Jemima Pierre “The Palestinian cry for dignity especially demands Black support” – today, as thousands of Palestinian prisoners emerge from a long hunger strike, just as in the late Sixties, during the Black Freedom Movement. Under an apartheid legal system…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Make the Choice: Wall Street or Society
16 May 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The liberal reformers are once again talking about tinkering with Wall Street’s economic and political stranglehold on society. “The reformist debate accepts the inevitability of private capital as the engine of economic – and, therefore, social –…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Most of Dr. King's People Never Did Get There
20 Jan 2005
by BAR Managing Editor Glen Ford Originally published in Black Commentator on January 20, 2005 "The crisis of mass incarceration and no employment has shattered has shattered every institutional connections with which the old order might communicate with the younger base in African…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Awesome Destructive Power of Corporate Media
29 Dec 2003
The Awesome Destructive Power of Corporate Media: How Corporate Media Killed the 2004 Howard Dean Campaign by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford Howard Dean has joined the list of victims of U.S. corporate media consolidation.