| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Dr. King Was A Man, “The Dreamer” Is A Zombie
29 Aug 2013
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Gary Younge points out that King's “I Have A Dream” speech wasn't offered as the penultimate moment of his career till after his death. Those who offer it were the same corporate media honchos who first elevated, then slimed and slandered King the last year of…
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NEW BATV: Cornel West on "Obama Plantation" / Dixon: MSNBC's Black Talking Heads / Ford: U.S. Conquers Africa
28 Aug 2013
Cornel West: Washington March Organizers are Part of the “Obama Plantation”; Says Sharpton Attempts to “Contain Black Rage”, Jay-Z an Example of the “Re-Niggerization of the Black Professional Class.” Bruce Dixon's Open Letter to Melissa Harris-Perry, Toure, Joy Ann Reid: Stop the Hate, Grow Some…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Dreamer With a Kill List
29 Aug 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The most powerful – and violent – man in the world was made the star of the commemoration of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King. “The grave-markers of the martyrs of the Black Freedom Movement – in their thousands – have been reduced to…
Obi Egbuna Jr.
Remembering the Night before The March On Washington: When Dr. W.E.B Du Bois Was Called Home By the Ancestors
04 Sep 2013
by Obi Egbuna Jr. A giant passed into history the day before Dr. Martin Luther King made his “Dream” speech in 1963. W.E.B. Du Bois had broken with a Democratic president 15 years before. “This put Dr. Du Bois in the exact same position that Dr. King was in when he decided losing back door access…
Wilmer J. Leon III
The 2013 March, the “Tranquilizing Drug of Gradualism”
04 Sep 2013
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III The 1963 and 2013 marches on Washington shared many of the same issues, but took place in very different political contexts. Fifty years ago, a deep and broad movement pressured Congress and presidents to accede to Black demands. President Obama’s speech at last week’s…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Humanitarian Intervention: The Human Rights Gift That Keeps on Giving to U.S. Imperialism
04 Sep 2013
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka So-called “humanitarian” military intervention is nothing more than “a convenient cover for rationalizing and justifying continued Euro-American global hegemony through the use of armed interventions to refashion local realities in line with Western…
Paul Street
“You Get a President… Nothing Else”
04 Sep 2013
by Paul Street President Obama offered the crowds at the March on Washington commemoration…nothing, except the fact of a Black presidency. That’s all he’s ever offered. The question is: “What good to black Americans is a first black president who brings them nothing more than the fleeting symbolic…
Rev. Reynard N. Blake Jr
The Best Americans: Black Americans
03 Sep 2013
by Reverend Reynard N. Blake, Jr. MLK wouldn’t be smiling at him He’d be crying Present-day marches In DC he would not attend If he had to share a dais with Obama He would defy the views of Obama He’d pray for him Call him a stone-cold killer
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
You’ve got a friend…
03 Sep 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner Drone Man “tagged” you in a note He wants you to get out the vote Like tubes down a “detainee” throat
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama: As Warlike as Bush, and Just as Lonely
05 Sep 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Most of the planet recoils from President Obama’s plans to smash the Syrian state – as do a majority of Americans. “The First Black U.S. President now finds himself more alone in the world than George Bush, and with even less support at home.”