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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Why Nobody’s Paying Attention to Black Folks These Days
07 Feb 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Don’t expect President Obama to offer any measures targeted to the Black economic crisis in his State of the Union address. He’s under absolutely no pressure to do so, thanks to a Black Misleadership Class that is incapable of making demands of the First Black…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Black Caucus Caves to Corporate Power
15 Jun 2006
In response to a flood of cable and phone company propaganda and millions in campaign and charitable donations, two thirds of the Congressional Black Caucus vote to redline broadband deployment in their own communities and kill the relatively open and free internet. Is it time to re-evaluate…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Leadership from Below
24 Jan 2007
Black Agenda Radio, from Bruce Dixon African American leadership, including the Congressional Black Caucus, are demanding that the ‘base' reaffirm our priorities as a people. Leadership from Below Click here to listen to this Black Agenda Radio commentary (3:51)
Leutisha Stills
“Black Leaders…or Leading Blacks?”
14 Feb 2007
by Leutisha Stills, CBC Monitor "Are you empowered by this conversation?" Tavis Smiley asked the thousands drawn to the annual State of the Black Union conference. The crowd roared back in the affirmative, but power - and a plan to use it - was precisely what was missing, this past weekend. The…
Leutisha Stills
Congressional Black Caucus: Divided on Trade, Immigration
14 Mar 2007
CBC Monitor Report Card, Second Session 109th Congress by Leutisha Stills, CBC Monitor There is still reason to believe that the Congressional Black Caucus can be rescued from its slide into irrelevance - but only if energized constituents mobilize behind "bright line" issues that members dare not…
Leutisha Stills
The Tavis Smiley Presidential Forum: "Showtime At The Apollo!"
04 Jul 2007
by Leutisha Stills, senior correspondent, CBC Monitor Tavis Smiley's presidential forum, before a black audience, with questions by black journalists, focusing on the issues ignored or bypassed in the mainstream media, but vitally important to the African America community, was billed as a…
Bill Quigley
Black Caucus Pitches Fit at Union Over Wynn Loss
27 Feb 2008
by Leutisha Stills, CBC Monitor Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are "seething" with anger over Rep. Al Wynn's Democratic primary defeat at the hands of Donna Edwards, in Maryland earlier this month. The Service Employees International Union did what unions are supposed to do: financially…
Bill Quigley
CBC Monitor Report Card: Black Caucus Adrift
22 Oct 2008
by Leutisha Stills, CBC Monitor Financial meltdowns and election tensions have had a negative effect on CBC Monitor Report Card scores. Under tremendous pressure to "buckle to party discipline and to align with standard bearer Barack Obama," the Congressional Black Caucus performed generally…
Bill Quigley
Obama Pulls U.S. Out of UN Conference on Racism, But Congressional Black Caucus Should Attend Anyway
04 Mar 2009
by Cynthia McKinney When Eric Holder, the new U.S. Attorney General called the nation to account for its historic reluctance to honestly talk about race and racism, its manifestations and consequences, he could have been talking about his boss the president. By withdrawing from the UN…
Bill Quigley
A Sincere and Painful Apology to the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus
20 May 2009
by Alberto N. Jones Mainly white Cuban exiles in Miami, Florida, and Union City, New Jersey, who have never been friends of Blacks in either Cuba or the United States, now claim to be champions of racial equality on the island. The author, an Afro-Cuban whose roots go back to Jamaica, apologizes to…