| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Starving For Change: Hunger Strike Underway In Georgia's Jackson State Prison, Day 15
26 Jun 2012
by BAR manging editor Bruce A. Dixon 18 months ago, black, brown and white Georgia prisoners staged a courageous protest demanding wages for work, educational opportunities, transparency in probation reviews and more. State officials unleashed a wave of exemplary brutality that continues to…
Jasmyne A. Cannick
Because Some Laundry Needs to Be Aired
26 Jun 2012
by Jasmyne A. Cannick Black lives are lost due to a “stigma we have cultivated and seemingly embraced in the Church, our homes, and among our family and friends.” For many of us, fear is stronger than science.
Mark P. Fancher
Africa’s Deadly Spy Infestation
26 Jun 2012
by Mark P. Fancher The expanding U.S. spy infrastructure in Africa, including a network of landing strips to service a fleet of intelligence-gathering aircraft, is inherently hostile to African self-dermination. That’s because “those who dictate U.S. intelligence policy make decisions…
Sikivu Hutchinson
The GOP’s Tired, Poor Huddled Masses
26 Jun 2012
by Sikivu Hutchinson Having based much of American exceptionalist mythology on the cult of white immigrant “values” – and the matching slander that African Americans are values-poor – the Right will increasingly “ratchet up classic divide and conquer narratives tied to bootstrapping…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Racism is the Issue
27 Jun 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley No matter what the facts say, Blacks are forbidden to blame race for…anything. That’s the meaning of a post-racial society: race is banned from discourse, while racism carries on as usual. Worsening Black unemployment in New York?…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Georgia Prison Hunger Strikers Endure, Call GA Governor at 404-656-1776, and Fast on Monday July 2
27 Jun 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Since July 11, at least ten, and possibly more prisoners at Jackson GA have refused food, vowing to fast till death if they cannot receive medical care, visitation and fair, transparent status reviews. The state of Georgia is adamant, reportedly threatening…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Re-Open COINTELPRO Investigation: If the Sioux Can Seek Justice, Why Can’t Blacks?
27 Jun 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Pine Ridge, South Dakota, Oglala Sioux have convinced the U.S. Justice Department to re-examine 50 possible political killings, from the mid-Seventies, some of which are surely linked to the FBI’s infamous COINTELPRO. The program registered its…
Bill Quigley
BA Morning Shot 9.8.10: Black Colombians to Black Columbians
08 Sep 2010
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The New Black Politics: All We Want Is A Black Royal Family, Not Jobs, Peace, or Justice
16 Feb 2011
With record black unemployment, unjust wars and torture continuing, it's time to ask, Can we let a black pharoah go? The historical African American legacy as the most progressive-minded constituency in the U.S. seems to have hit a royalist snag in the Age of Obama. "Four years after…
Sese
Treble Army - Party Over Here
01 Jul 2012