| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Barbaric Israel
01 Apr 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley A nation that has violated “every norm of civilized behavior and international law” since its founding in 1948 is held virtually blameless by the U.S. corporate media – Israel sycophants of the lowest order. “Now members of the Israeli Defense…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Zombie Banks Run the Country, Thanks to Their Grand Protector in the Oval Office
01 Apr 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player to listen to, or the mic at left to download a broadcast quality MP3 of this BA Radio commentary. The Obama administration has allowed the investment bankster class to not only "virtually dictate the terms of their own…
Bill Quigley
Congo and Darfur: Where Anti-Arab Prejudice and Oil Make the Difference
30 May 2007
by Roger Howard Some Black bodies are more worthy of attention than others. The three million dead in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where U.S. allies such as Rwanda keep the genocidal pot boiling and multinational corporations field private armies to guard their mineral extraction enterprises…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
A Tale of Two Genocides, Congo and Darfur: The Blatantly Inconsistent U.S. Position
18 Jul 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford As many as five million people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A quarter million or so have perished in Darfur, western Sudan. Both are abominations, genocides, crimes against humanity, but only Darfur rates coverage in the U.S. corporate media,…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
I Remember Fred
06 Dec 2006
BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon offers a personal recollection of Fred Hampton, Deputy Chairman of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party, who was murdered by Chicago Police and federal agents on December 4, 1969. To listen to this Black Agenda Radio commentary, click here.
Bill Quigley
SATs Stymie Race and Class Mobility
24 Sep 2008
Standardized test scores for college entrance "appear to calcify differences based on class, race/ethnicity and parental educational attainment," says a national organization of college admissions counselors. In other words, SAT-type tests reward privilege. "That's not a meritocracy - it's a…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Sudan/Darfur is Test Case for Obama’s “Humanitarian” Aggression
01 Apr 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir had no choice but to expel the western "aid" organizations that had merged with the American propaganda machine aimed at regime change in Khartoum. Obama operatives like UN Ambassador Susan Rice have for years been "eager to…
Bill Quigley
In the Era of Obama, Is There a Need for a Black Agenda?
08 Apr 2009
by Dr. Ron Daniels “The fact that America has progressed to the point that a Black family can occupy the White House has not eradicated the myriad maladies of race and class that continue to constrain the aspirations of millions of Black people in this nation,” says veteran political organizer Ron…
Bill Quigley
Writing the Next Chapter on Race: Enforce the Law
08 Apr 2009
by Judith Browne-Dianis The United States could make great progress towards racial equality if the federal government simply enforced the laws that are already on the books. Environmental racism, health inequities, mass minority incarceration – “All of these disparities exist with government…
Bill Quigley
Haiti: The Audacity of Hopelessness
08 Apr 2009
by John Maxwell Haiti’s gift to humanity was to become “the first nation anywhere to enshrine the rights of man, woman and child, the fundamental universal rights of human beings, in their constitution.” Much of the rest of its history has been a litany of rape and assaulted national tortures…