| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Bill Cosby and Michael Brown
27 Nov 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Unrepentant old rapists aren’t funny. Nor are they good media investments. Karma has caught up with Bill Cosby, who slandered the Black poor as amoral criminals, but “will never have another television show or book on the best seller list and…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Ferguson: It is Right to Resist, By Any and All Means Necessary
27 Nov 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Having failed to head off the beginnings of a Black mass movement, the Black Misleadership Class and the White House cite violence in Ferguson to discredit youthful activists. However, “any movement that defies police power and rejects the legitimacy of the state…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Ready for the Wicked Witch of the West?
08 Jul 2014
by Raymond Nat Turner She flies in 2016 with a fleet of “monkeys spring from the mule.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
18 Days: Still shaking the world…
15 Jul 2014
by Raymond Nat Turner You’re the ones we’ve been waiting for— Fiery deeds thawing souls on ice, awakening wise Old revolutionaries, political prisoners, smooth- Skinned activists, looking, listening, cheering and Studying solidarity
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Top 10 Reasons Why Corporate Social Media is Not Your Friend, and Dark Social Media Is
18 Jun 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon For a long time now, we've all been told, and have told each other, that corporate social media is the way to build businesses, audiences and brands. What if this is about as true as the old saw about real estate prices only going up? What is “dark social media…
The Real News Network
Will the Department of Justice Meet the Demands of the Movement?
03 Dec 2014
by the Real News Network Demonstrations of outrage in more than 100 US cities at unpunished police misconduct may be the beginning of a movement against the prison state itself. Established misleaders and the state, Glen Ford observes, try to divide and discredit this movement by labeling parts of…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Thanksgiving is the Expression of the Colonizer, Then and Now
03 Dec 2014
by Danny Haiphong What most Americans think they know about the historical “Thanksgiving” is a myth, yet the story is acted out on a global and domestic scale under contemporary U.S. imperialism. For example, in Syria, the U.S. invents and arms “moderate” rebels while bombing the ISIS kind.…
Dan Glazebrook
The Lessons of Libya
03 Dec 2014
Three years ago, in late October 2011, the world witnessed the final defeat of the Libyan Jamahiriya – the name by which the Libyan state was known until overthrown in 2011, meaning literally the “state of the masses” – in the face of a massive onslaught from NATO, its regional allies and local…
Jesse Hagopian
“Why are They Doing This to Me?”: Seattle Students Walkout on Ferguson Decision and Racism
03 Dec 2014
by Jesse Hagopian Ferguson is everywhere – including Seattle, where thousands of students took to the streets last week. “What is sweeping the nation—something the media cannot acknowledge without legitimizing challenges to their own supremacy—is a politicized populace of Black people, people of…
Linn Washington
Lawless Law Enforcer: Robert P. McCulloch Personifies Misconduct by Prosecutors
01 Jan 1970
by Linn Washington Jr. Robert McCulloch is more than just a rogue prosecutor; he has nurtured a team of lawless lawyers that persecute people of color in St. Louis County. “Prosecutors working under McCulloch either sanctioned misconduct by authorities or fought against appeals where inmates…