| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Obama's Public Education Policy: Privatization, Charters, Mass Firings, Neighborhood Destabilization
01 Jul 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Last weekend in Chicago, US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan delivered the keynote address at Rainbow PUSH's annual conference and education roundtable. Duncan is the premiere executor of corporate instpired policies that have closed dozens of…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Edward Snowden: Person of the Year
18 Dec 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Edward Snowden is vilified as a “traitor” by politicians of the American political duopoly, and hunted like Public Enemy Number One by the global imperial apparatus. However, for a large proportion of Earthlings, Snowden has made the singular…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Dr. Peniel Joseph: Peoples Historian or Establishment Courtier? Part One of Two
16 Jun 2010
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Helping us explain the lineup of the social forces that impact our individual and collective lives is the job of people's intellectuals. Selling us clever marketing constructs is the job of intellectuals in the service of empire. But what would a loyal and…
Anthony Monteiro
Black Power, Barack Obama and Peniel E. Joseph’s Defense of American Democracy
28 Jul 2010
by Anthony Monteiro Corporate media (and corporate academia) appear to have anointed Peniel E. Joseph as the emerging Black scholar on Black Power and its aftermath – which is cause for dismay. Joseph “‘liberates’ Malcolm and Kwame from the events and ideas that shaped them and their own…
Anthony Monteiro
The African National Congress: The Rise and Tragic Fall of a Revolutionary Movement
08 Jan 2014
by Anthony Monteiro Black “rule” in South Africa is illusory. “White supremacy without the obvious hand of white people is the form of social and political control, which replaces legal apartheid.” The revolution was derailed. “The road from the Freedom Charter, to the Morogoro Consultative…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The Budget Deal and Neoliberalism: The U.S. and South African Connection
08 Jan 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Capitalism has made good use of the world’s two most prominent Black men. Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela served as the faces that defused Black opposition to the neoliberal agenda. “What mattered in South Africa in the 90s as it does in the U.S. today is a…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Prosecuting Black Victims
08 Jan 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Prosecutors go to bizarre lengths to put Black victims of police gunfire in prison. A young man blinded by a cop’s bullet may spend 35 years in prison. A unarmed, mentally ill man who was shot at by police faces 25 years behind bars because the…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Birth of the Coup-well: War House Hoets
08 Jan 2014
by BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner War House hoets shamelessly Raise golden goblets Of fracking fluid, toast Eternal war, war profiteers
Adam Engel
Last Hope For Change: An Interview with Cynthia McKinney
08 Jan 2014
by Adam Engel Writer Adam Engel describes former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney as a person who doesn’t merely speak truth to power, but acts in accordance with such truths. In this extended conversation, the former Green Party presidential candidate explores “how we end the lived…
Colin Jenkins
On the Front Lines of Class War: Why the Fight for a Livable Wage is Everyone's Fight
08 Jan 2014
by Colin Jenkins “Solidarity unionism” has energized thousands of workers in low wage industries, especially fast food. The movement has been building for more than a decade, in response to the pauperization of the U.S. working class. "There are millions of workers in this industry living in…