| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Obama-Inspired Surrender of Black Leadership Makes Real Criminal Code Reform, Mass Incarceration Rollback Unlikely
20 Jun 2013
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon There's a House Judiciary Committee Task Force on Overcriminalization committed to combing through the federal code looking for ways to lock up fewer people. Should we get our hopes up, or get our fight for justice and rolling back the state on? Will the black…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The Naked Imperialism of Humanitarian Intervention
19 Jun 2013
by Ajamu Baraka The U.S. imperial juggernaut attempts to bamboozle its home audience with the fiction that its war against Syria is a “humanitarian” venture. “The immediate priority for anti-war, anti-imperialist, human rights activists in the U.S. is to strip away the moral pretext of humanitarian…
Danny Pforte
The Best Corporate Brand Yet: President Barack Obama
19 Jun 2013
by Danny Pforte The Obama brand has worked wonders as the face of U.S. imperialism and rule of the rich. Black America is the brand’s “most prized” consumer. “The Obama brand has used the media to pervert the history of the Black struggle for justice by using the dead-end, ideological conclusion…
The Editors
Economic & Ecological Transformation of Jamaica & Haiti Pt 3
19 Jun 2013
Part 3 of Ecological & Economic Transformation in Haiti & Jamaica, a Left Forum panel discussion featuring Haitian Labor Activist Kiki Makandal, Teamsters Union 808 leader Christophe Silvera, Colia LaFayette Clark, of HUERA, and BAR contributor Pascal Robert, moderated by Cecile Lawrence…
The Editors
Economic & Ecological Transformation of Jamaica & Haiti Pt 2
19 Jun 2013
Part 2 of Ecological & Economic Transformation in Haiti & Jamaica, a Left Forum panel discussion featuring Haitian Labor Activist Kiki Makandal, Teamsters Union 808 leader Christophe Silvera, Colia LaFayette Clark, of HUERA, and BAR contributor Pascal Robert, moderated by Cecile Lawrence…
The Editors
Economic & Ecological Transformation of Jamaica & Haiti Pt 1
19 Jun 2013
Part 1 of Ecological & Economic Transformation in Haiti & Jamaica, a Left Forum panel discussion featuring Haitian Labor Activist Kiki Makandal, Teamsters Union 808 leader Christophe Silvera, Colia LaFayette Clark, of HUERA, and BAR contributor Pascal Robert, moderated by Cecile Lawrence…
Bill Quigley
Chavez is "Black Santa" to US Poor
20 Dec 2006
by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford “Are U.S. Blacks really a big enough, wise enough people to assume their unique place in the world as self-determiners, ready and eager to act in their own interests with partners with whom they share common goals – peace, a more equitable distribution of wealth,…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Barack Obama: The Mania and the Mirage
17 Jan 2007
by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford
Bill Quigley
James Brown: The Man Who Named A People
03 Jan 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford James Brown’s historic contribution to Black self-determination is incalculable, writes BAR’s Executive Editor. The ‘Godfather of Soul’ made it possible for the masses of people to affirm their own name.
Bill Quigley
Measuring and Muffling Dissent - By the Numbers
31 Jan 2007
by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford Organizers are once again crying foul over the corporate media's undercount of last weekend's massive anti-war rally in Washington, DC. The danger here is not the undercount, which is to be expected from a lying media, but a ‘movement' practice that focuses on Big…