| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The U.S. War Against the World
11 Jul 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The DNA of finance capitalism has foreordained its death – and soon. To forestall that inevitability, the U.S. war machine is prepared to turn out the lights on much of the world – and here at home. “The gasping and grasping empire seeks to thwart the material and…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Melissa Harris-Perry VS Alice Walker: Sista Courtier VS the Real Sista Citizen
24 Oct 2012
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Professor Melissa Harris-Perry has an MSNBC show and a byline in The Nation as “Sister Citizen.” But what would the output of a “sista citizen” look like? Would it extol and praise the Great Man, excusing him from responsibilities and his own promises, or would…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Joy Ann Reid, Melissa Harris-Perry as Prosecutor & Cop Go After Snowden, Wikileaks, & the First Amendment
04 Jul 2013
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Gandhi once said that western civilization would be “a good idea.” So would black journalism. One white TV talking head said he was ready to arrest Glenn Greenwald. Not to be outdone, MSNBC's black talking heads too, are ready to personally scalp Wikileaks and…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Melissa Harris-Perry Buries The Lead Story on National Wave of Public School Closings
31 Jan 2013
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When print or broadcast news outlets grab a compelling story, only to distract attention away from what the public needs to know, that's called “burying the lead.” That's what Melissa Harris-Perry did in her Jan. 26 segment on whether the nationwide wave of…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Did Bloody Hands, Not Black Womanhood Sink Susan Rice Nomination?
20 Dec 2012
Did Susan Rice step down on her own or did she do so at the insistence of the White House. Did Republican oppostion doom her nomination, or was the Obama administration too afraid to have such a bare knuckled champion of disaster capitalism and African dictators as Secretary of State, lest its real…
Pascal Robert
A Brief Statement on Crime and Alleged “Black Criminality”
17 Jul 2013
by Pascal Robert The most pervasive and destructive forms of crime are committed by white supremacists (crimes against whole peoples) and global corporatists (crimes against all of humanity). “Black Criminality” is the stuff of propaganda.
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Big Brother: Coming to a Federal Government Agency Near You
17 Jul 2013
by BAR editor and Columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Under President Obama, five million federal workers are compelled to snitch on each other. Obama’s Insider Threat Program has turned the federal government into an environment where every employee is responsible for ‘turning in’ any co-worker…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama Dog Whistles Over Trayvon
17 Jul 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley George Zimmerman was acquitted because the jury empathized with him as a fellow human being, and felt no such connection with Trayvon Martin and his tribe. White privilege – including the privilege to kill Black people – “is accepted and it…
Gary Leupp
A Necessary Third Open Letter to Melissa Harris-Perry
17 Jul 2013
by Gary Leupp Melissa Harris-Perry, the MSNBC talking head who imagines that she is a progressive, is writing derisive “open letters” whistleblower Edward Snowden. The author thinks Harris-Perry has flipped her top because Snowden’s revelations have “so embarrassed” her president “by exposing him…
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
The Zimmerman Verdict is a Reflection of the Times: The People Must Organize
17 Jul 2013
by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement President Obama’s request for “calm reflection” in the wake of the Zimmerman verdict “is just another effort to lure Black people to sleep and keep us accepting the status quo.” Instead, what is needed are “campaigns that disrupt the status quo systems of the US…