| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Universal Health Care? We Keep the Candy, But You Can Have the Wrapper. No. Wait. Give Us the Wrapper Too.
16 Dec 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon It's half past December, and the White House is hell-bent on passing its version of “health insurance reform” out of Congress before the holiday recess. It's not universal. It's not even about delivering health care, it's about bailing out health insurance…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Plundering the Panthers, Manipulating the Movement: Re-Branding the Black Panther Party
02 Dec 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Every movement has its symbols and icons. But when these are separated from their context and content they are nothing but brands, to be employed for whatever commercial or political purpose anyone has in mind, even purposes opposite those of the movement…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
If Democrats Don't Pass Health Insurance Reform This Year, What Do We Lose? And What Do We Gain?
04 Nov 2009
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The version of health care reform championed by the White House and Congressional Democrats will force millions to buy crappy insurance from private providers with no interest in health care but plenty of interest in profits. Its pubic option is a cruel hoax…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Harry Reid, Democratic Leaders and the White House Still Faking the Funk on Universal Health Care
29 Oct 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon This week the Senate's Harry Reid announced the consolidation of the Senate Democratic caucus version of health care reform. How central the “public option” is or is not depends on who you ask, as do precisely how many people it would be offered to and on what…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama and the Class War
17 Apr 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Back in 2006, Barack Obama sold his soul to Wall Street bankers, who then supported his run for the presidency. “Barack Obama became president because he told the Rubins and Altmans of the world that he was on their side while simultaneously…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Crushed by Capitalism
01 May 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Some Americans feel, mistakenly, that they live in a different universe from Bangladeshis. However, “The American retailers supplied by the Bangladeshi workers routinely practice wage theft, reduce hours worked and prevent their employees from…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin On De “Wink-Wink, Nod-Nod Code”
01 May 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner If you see’d him shob Rev. Wright unda de weelz ob de Greyhoun — Wink-wink- Nod-nod, it jes look lak dat fo’ to Fool white folk
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Breitbart Lives? New York Times & Slate.com Do Sloppy Racist Hatchet Job on Black Farmers Lawsuit
01 May 2013
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon On Friday, April 26, the New York Times, with an assist from the Washington Post property Slate.com committed a journalistic atrocity with a false and misleading portrayal of the lawsuit launched by black farmers against the USDA.
Sikivu Hutchinson
Prison House of Textbook History: Remembering the Chicano Blowouts
01 May 2013
by Sikivu Hutchinson 1968, the year of the biggest high school walkout in U.S. history, was not so different than the present. “Then, as now, there was no room for analyses of sexism, racial apartheid, heterosexism, and patriarchy and how our lived experiences diverged from the corrupt pedagogy of…
Angola 3 News
Why Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz Must Be Released From Solitary Confinement: An interview with Theresa Shoatz and Matt Meyer
01 May 2013
by Angola 3 News Former Black Panther Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz has spent 28 of the last 30 years in “control units” – solitary confinement. “The remedy is an end to all control units, the present day prison system, and freedom for Maroon and all my extended family: the political prisoners who stood…