| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
US Imperialism's Corporate Media Circus: Lions, Rap Beefs, and the Psychology of Oppression
12 Aug 2015
by Danny Haiphong Social media, like conventional print and broadcast media, are tools in the hands of the owning class. Consumers of these media are distracted and miseducated with lies, irrelevant nonsense and phony battles between highly paid minstrels like Drake and Meek Mill, both of whom “…
Paul Street
Posing as the Great Emancipator: Obama’s Prison-Posturing is Nothing New
12 Aug 2015
by Paul Street President Obama likes to give the impression that he is shocked and surprised by the horrors of the U.S. penal system. But the author knew the president back in the day, in Chicago, and can vouch that State Senator Obama “was fully up on the facts of the U.S. racist prison state in…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Black WWII Soldiers Gassed by US Government and the Connection to Black Lives Matter
12 Aug 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The United States has always been a killing machine, slaughtering Black nonwhites by every means possible. “Human experimentation, mass incarceration, state-sponsored police murders are merely the symptoms of an oppressive white supremacist/…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Steven Salaita, Palestine and Free Speech
12 Aug 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Zionist power engenders “fear, silence and acquiescence” in every sphere of U.S. political life, making a mockery of freedom of speech and hallowed notions of professional ethics. Just ask Steven Salaita, a renowned Palestinian academic who…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
How To Hold Prominent Movement Figures Accountable – With A Private Phone Call or a Public Discussion?
12 Aug 2015
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon I've been asked why I didn't pick up the phone to talk personally to #BlackLivesMatter leaders before critiquing their published statements. Last year I was asked the same about Jesse Jackson, and years before I was asked repeatedly why I didn't contact…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
August 144 hours
12 Aug 2015
by BAR poet in residence Raymond "Nat" Turner Our poet recalls the living memory of the Watts LA uprising a half century ago this week
The Real News Network
Black Lives Do Matter But Do They Move? Glen Ford and Bruce Dixon interviewed by Jared Ball on the Real News Network
12 Aug 2015
Black Lives Do Matter But Do They Move? by the Real News Network
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
#BlackLivesMatter and the Democrats: How Disruption Can Lead to Collaboration
13 Aug 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The #Black Lives Matter organization may believe that it is confronting, rather than collaborating with, the Democratic Party, by disrupting candidates’ speeches. However, the tactic inevitably leads to “either a direct or indirect, implicit endorsement of the more…
Jackie Miller
Why is Rev. Edward Pinkney in Prison? Another Case of Political Persecution
19 Aug 2015
by Jackie Miller The Whirlpool Corporation, with the collaboration of local government, is engaged in ethnic cleansing and massive land piracy in mostly Black Benton Harbor, Michigan. “We call it fascism,” writes community leader Rev. Edward Pinkney, now serving 2 ½ to 10 years in prison for…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Black Lives Matter as Much as Syrian Lives Do: The Geopolitical Dimension of White Supremacy and the State
19 Aug 2015
by Danny Haiphong U.S. foreign and domestic policy both serve the same corporate master, whose primary pursuit is profits. “The same trillion dollar military apparatus that Washington utilizes against Syria also militarizes the police to occupy the streets of Ferguson, Baltimore, and Black cities…