| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Sanctions for Russia and a Green Light for Israel to Continue War Crimes
05 Aug 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The U.S. is a rogue state whose organs of government at every level are controlled by war criminals and their cheerleaders. That includes “the new liberal darlings Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren” who “give moral and political support to Israeli war…
Horace G. Campbell
BRICS Bank Challenges the Exorbitant Privilege of the US Dollar
05 Aug 2014
by Horace G. Campbell Over 65 percent of the world’s nations keep their foreign exchange reserves in the US dollar, the dominant world currency. The creation of the BRICS Bank and other financial interventions will likely weaken the dollar’s dominance and contribute to the creation a new…
Wilmer J. Leon III
Reparations – the 800 lb. Bail of Cotton in the Room
05 Aug 2014
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III It is incontrovertible that the American State and society owes a huge debt to Africans and African Americans. Formulas of calculation and methods of repayment are open to debate, but not the fact of the debt, which is undeniable. White America only escape its vast…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
James Brown: The Hardest Working Asshole in Show Business
07 Aug 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford James Brown’s music and lyrics are woven into the politics of Black America’s most productive decade, the Sixties. However, JB’s “relationship to the Black people he touched most directly – those who worked for him – was cruel, petty, and contemptuous.”
Bill Quigley
Israel's Big and Small Apartheids
28 Apr 2010
by Jonathan Cook It is irrefutable that Israel is an apartheid state, established and maintained for the benefit of one group of its inhabitants. “There are, for example, some 30 laws that explicitly discriminate between Jews and non-Jews.” The same fate awaits the West Bank, if the Zionist…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Israeli Apartheid
20 Jun 2006
by Bruce A. Dixon Originally published in Black Commentator on June 20, 2006 "The ugly and racist realities of Israeli society and life under Israeli occupation are rarely discussed." Imagine, if you will, a modern apartheid state with first, second and eleventh class citizens, all…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Obama's Race To The Top Drives Nationwide Wave of School Closings, Teacher Firings
10 Jan 2013
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Among Obama supporters, the gap between popular perceptions of the president's policies and the actual content of those policies is nowhere wider than in public education. While the president pays lip service to the centrality of public education, teachers and…
Thandisizwe Chimurenga
Renisha was on Trial All Along
12 Aug 2014
by Thandisizwe Chimurenga Ted Wafer’s defense lawyers spent his entire trial trying to convince 12 jurors that Renisha McBride was guilty in her own murder.
Bill Quigley
The Real News Network: Inside Israel's Pro-War Nationalist Camp
15 Aug 2014
The Real News Network: Inside Israel's Racist Ethnocracy The Real News Network and Max Blumental, author of "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel" look at how Israeli politicians have made racist anti-Arab hatred and fascism a political staple in the zionist state.
Bill Quigley
The Real News Network: Glen Ford: Black Political Elite Continue To Support Israeli Apartheid, Assault on Gaza
15 Aug 2014
The Real News Network: Glen Ford: Black Political Elite Continue To Support Israeli Apartheid, Assault on Gaza Glen Ford examines how our black political class, whose brand is associated with opposing apartheid in the US and South Africa, supports apartheid & ethnocracy in Israel.