| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Time For The CBC and our Black Political Class Denounce Apartheid and Ethnocracy in Israel-Palestine
07 Aug 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The contradiction between the supposed origin of our black political class out of the struggle against Jim Crow and its collaboration with Israeli apartheid can't be resolved. We can only save the good name of our own people by calling out the black US…
Byran K. Bullock
Historically, Black Leaders Supported Palestinians; Why Less So Now?
27 Aug 2014
by Bryan K. Bullock Today's silence by black leaders in the face of Israeli aggression against Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip stands in stark contrast to the historic support of the Palestinians by African and African-American leaders.
Chris Hedges
Rebellion in Ferguson: A Rising Heat in the Suburbs
27 Aug 2014
by Chris Hedges Veteran journalist Chris Hedges explores the “ebb and flow” of the Black liberation movement with veteran organizer Larry Hamm, of Newark, New Jersey’s People’s Organization for Progress. Newly Black towns like Ferguson, Missouri, may become the focus of Black revolt. “Because of…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Van Jones and Charles Blow Absolve White America
27 Aug 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley U.S. corporate media have made it easy to identify Black “leaders” and “spokespersons” to call on at times of racial crisis. They simply hire them. Van Jones and Charles Blow are part of well paid cadre of Blacks whose main talent is telling…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
CODE BLACK: Murder, Mass Incarceration, Militarization and Genocide in Progress
10 Sep 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Kevin Berends America has escalated to Code Black, signifying “the occupier's terror campaign against blacks and browns.” Legally speaking, the tripwires to genocide have already been sprung. We demand that this president “declare a…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Who Are the Minions of War in the Black Caucus?
11 Sep 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford For the first time in five years, “the Black Caucus was treated like royalty, rather than a nuisance, as is usual, at the White House.” The reason: Obama needs their votes to continue his rush to war against Syria. “If past voting behavior is a guide, the majority…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black America More Pro-War Than Ever
18 Sep 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford During President Obama’s run-up to war with Syria, “African Americans were, for the first time in polling history, the most bellicose major ethnicity in the United States.” How could such a political role-reversal come to pass? “The progressive, peace-seeking…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Kidnapped Girls Become Tools of U.S. Imperial Policy in Africa
14 May 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The “humanitarian” U.S. military occupation of Africa has been very successful, thus far. “The Chibok abductions have served the same U.S. foreign policy purposes as Joseph Kony sightings in central Africa.” Imagine: the superpower that financed the genocide of six…
Pascal Robert
Thanks to the Congressional Black Caucus “Remy” from “House of Cards” is Real
04 Jun 2014
by Pascal Robert The truth is more evil than Netflix fiction. Staffers at the Congressional Black Caucus – doubtless mimicking the morals of their elected bosses – eventually formed their own mercenary lobbying structures to sell out the interests of African Americans. Their principal clients are “…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Need for a Black Agenda
22 Feb 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The African American Left’s failure to formulate a Black Agenda has made it “largely irrelevant during the greatest crisis of capitalism since at least the Great Depression, and the worst economic and social crisis for African Americans since the death…