| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Andy Young, Obasanjo Kin, and Russell Simmons to Market "Motherland Grillz" in Africa
24 Jan 2007
By BAR special correspondent W. E. B. Blingen What happens when Andy Young and the Obansanjos hook up youthful hip hop entrepreneurs in the motherland with the spirit of American black capitalism?
Bill Quigley
Ten Reasons Why "Save Darfur" is a PR Scam to Justify the Next US Oil and Resource Wars in Africa
28 Nov 2007
The star-studded hue and cry to "Save Darfur" and "stop the genocide" has gained enormous traction in U.S. media along with bipartisan support in Congress and the White House. But the Congo, with ten to twenty times as many African dead over the same period is not called a "genocide" and…
Solomon Comissiong
Land of Barbarism: A Glimpse of America
24 Jul 2012
by Solomon Comissiong Garbage in, garbage out. “America's foundation is built upon the bloodied, mutilated, and lifeless bodies of innumerable people – mostly of color.” Is it any wonder, then, that the United States would become, as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. concluded, “the greatest…
Fran Quigley
“This is How Duvalier Started”: Critics of Haitian President Imprisoned
24 Jul 2012
by Meena Jagannath and Fran Quigley Although the reviled United Nations occupation force remains the main muscle in Haiti, the farcically elected president, Michel Martelly, is a dictator-in-waiting. “Sweet Micky,” as he is known, is a fan of Papa and Baby “Doc” Duvalier, the father…
Dr. Boyce Watkins
With Poverty Worst in Decades, Maybe We Owe Tavis and Cornel an Apology
24 Jul 2012
by Dr. Boyce Watkins In much of Black America, it is dangerous to one’s political health to put forward a critique of the First Black President. Just ask Dr. Cornel West and veteran broadcaster Tavis Smiley. “Whenever Smiley and West try to bring up poverty, they are shut down, like…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Mass Murder Hypocrisy
25 Jul 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Being President of the United States requires moral multi-tasking. One minute you’re gloating over the bodies of people you’ve targeted for death, the next you’re bemoaning all the senseless violence in the world. “As the…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Should We Really Re-Elect This Fracking President?
25 Jul 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Fracking is the energy industry's answer to peak oil, catastrophically offloading the increased cost of oil and gas extraction onto farmers, ranchers, humans who drink water, and the environment itself. It's about as ethical and responsible as the brain…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama and the Bank Protection Racket
25 Jul 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Wall Street knows, with great intimacy, that it is perched on the lip of the abyss, that the next crash can come from any number of directions, that all its faults are active and all its contradictions, acute.” Wall Street’s protectors in the Obama…
James Owens , Scott Sanders
Network Neutrality Should Be The Beginning, We Need Community Control Over Public Media
17 Mar 2010
Cheap, fast and universally available broadband access will be as vital to community economic development in the 21st century as paved roads. But neither universal access nor a just media propagated over those broadband channels will happen without a sharp struggle for community control over…
Dady Chery
Massacre at La Visite
01 Aug 2012
by Dady Chery In a nation that has been robbed of its sovereignty, lives can easily be stolen. When a small community stands in the way of tourism development, blood is bound to flow.