| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Al Sharpton & MSNBC Shrink the Black Agenda
13 Apr 2011
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In the two hours of MSNBC’s corporate-sponsored “Black Agenda” featuring Al Sharpton and Ed Schulz, hosts and guests mentioned the Pentagon, its multiple wars and trillion dollar budget not even once. In their imaginary world, these have nothing to do with the…
Bill Quigley
FCC Commissioner to Public in Atlanta: "Shut Up And Watch TV!"
01 Oct 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon In Atlanta, the FCC's sham “Digital TV Consumer Education” town hall meeting was a near-secret affair, held in a conference room in rather than the advertised auditorium. FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate refused to answer questions about how the FCC…
Colin Jenkins
An Ideal Blueprint: The Original Black Panther Party Model and Why It Should Be Duplicated
15 Jul 2014
by Colin Jenkins There is no need to wholly reinvent the wheels of revolutionary struggle in the United States. The Black Panther Party for Self Defense provides a still-useful model. “The party possessed a ‘big picture approach’ that has become a necessity, especially in today's world of…
Wilmer J. Leon III
Pax Americana vs. The Arc of the Moral Universe
16 Jul 2014
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III The United States has savaged Central America for most of its history. America’s crimes against generations of people now redound against the perpetrator. “The unaccompanied minors at our Southern border are Malcolm’s ‘chickens coming home to roost.’”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Witness to an International Crime: Israeli State Terrorism in Gaza
16 Jul 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka For more half a century, Israel has gotten away with breaking every international law and covenant in its treatment of Palestinians. “The material basis of the Israeli colonial project is dependent on the continued expansion and expropriation of Palestinian…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
How to Pay for a Free, Non-Racist Higher Education
16 Jul 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Corinthian Colleges is going out of business, and other for-profit rip-offs will follow. However, “The very existence of Corinthian, Phoenix, Ashford and the other gangster institutions proves beyond doubt that the vast bulk of the existing U.S. educational…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: American and Israeli War Crimes
16 Jul 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley How should one describe the U.S.-Israeli relationship? “Co-conspirators”? “Co-dependents”? “Frenemies”? “The corporate media in the United States and other western nations ignore, minimize or tell outright lies about the ongoing massacre” of…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The US Left’s Obligation to Palestine is to Build an Internationalist Movement
15 Jul 2014
by Danny Haiphong “Israel's political and economic foundation rests on the terror of white supremacy,” a concept quite familiar to Americans. “We need to build campaigns that link Zionist imperialism with struggles everywhere against capitalism and racism.”
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
What Corporate Media and Corporate Latino Politicians Won't Tell You About Central American Child Refugees
16 Jul 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Why can't Latino politicians and corporate media call the current wave of Central American children refugees, when that's what they plainly are? What's the role of the US drug war, US trained cops and military, and US funded death squads in the violence and…
Thandisizwe Chimurenga
Thandisizwe Chimurenga to Cover the Detroit Trial of Renisha McBride's Killer Beginning July 21
15 Jul 2014
by the Editors Where does real journalism come from? It comes from real journalists, people who wake up every day to follow a story wherever it leads, interviewing participants and experts, poring through letters, transcripts and documents. Not so very long ago, journalism was paid for with…