| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The Need for an Ethical and Political De-Colonization of Human Rights: A Reflection on International Human Rights Day
10 Dec 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The ethos of Western-based “human-rights” groups rests “on a stratification of humanity” with European “civilization” at the apex. What the world needs is a people-centered human rights “based on the communitarian principles of social solidarity, cooperation…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Black lives matter…(Too much to pimp on the Trail of Tricks)
10 Dec 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner So, why’s the War House Hosting you, our brilliant Black, Brown, Tan babies? Why’s the War House serenading You with cognitive dissonant Doo-Wop ‘Mistrust,’ like A torch song of unrequited love?
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
White House Refuses to Meet with Grieving Black Mothers Whose Son Were Executed by Cops
10 Dec 2014
by Bar Editor and Columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Kevin Berends This week, the political leadership of the United States will have a chance to look into the eyes of “nine African-American women who have lost family, loved ones and sons to excessive police violence.” Sadly, neither…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
It’s Not the Law, But Prosecutors, That Give Immunity to Killer Cops
11 Dec 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Attorney General Eric Holder, like his local counterparts, claims that “the law” renders him helpless to prosecute killer cops. That’s bogus, says the ACLU, which maintains there is no insurmountable bar to charges of police “reckless disregard” and “open defiance…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
"Teach For America" Trojan Horse Among Ferguson Activists?
11 Dec 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Teach For America has done vast and indisputable harm to black communities across the country, funded by hundreds of millions in deep corporate pockets and tens of millions of federal dollars. Could this be why the St. Louis TFA exec director was picked to meet…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Don’t March with Sharpton
10 Dec 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Al Sharpton is proud to serve as the U.S. president’s pit bull, and also doubles as a “leader” in the movement of the oppressed – the very definition of conflict of interest. Clearly, if he is to honor his pact with Power, he must betray the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Ferguson Reverberates Around the World
17 Dec 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The whole world wants to know where the “Ferguson” movement is going, and Russians are no exception. The author just returned from Moscow, where they “were curious about Barack Obama’s relationship with the constituency that supported him the…
Lisa Tomlinson
The Global Scourge of Police Killing Blacks
17 Dec 2014
by Lisa Tomlinson The issue of Black people being victims of systemic brutality, oppression and murder at the hands of the police is not limited to the United States. It is a global problem. If we are ever going to stop this barbaric use of authority to trample the civil and human rights of Black…
Seth Sandronsky
Sacramento’s Black Mayor and the Minimum Wage
17 Dec 2014
by Seth Sandronsky If Kevin Johnson is “progressive,” then the term has become meaningless. The Sacramento mayor and charter school champion, husband of privatization zealot Michelle Rhee, has bought into the corporate argument that meaningful hikes in the minimum wage harm the economy, including…
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Would You Buy An Obamamobile From This Man?
17 Dec 2014
by Howard Wait “High Deductible Health Care Model” is President Obama’s legacy to the American people, complete with “skinny networks, overpriced medicines and more tricks and traps than a Halloween funhouse.” But, no need to worry. “After the deductible is paid, which will be never, health care…