| Black Agenda Report

Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Color Blind or Just Blind
26 Aug 2015
by Dr. T.P. Wilkinson Liberals, the Phony Left, and the supine Black Misleadership Class spread the false gospel that, as bad as things are, they are far better than they used to be. But what could be uglier than summary police murder of Black people, mass Black incarceration, or the dispossession…
Mark P. Fancher
Black Children’s Dreams Crushed on a Field of Nightmares
26 Aug 2015
by Mark P. Fancher Organized Little League baseball last year stripped Chicago’s champion Jackie Robinson West team of their World Series title. The injustice blends their anguished voices “with those of today’s young black scholars who are unfairly suspended or expelled and then shoved through a…
Brendan McQuade
Non-Profits and the Pacification of the Black Lives Matter Movement
26 Aug 2015
by Brendan McQuade It takes many actors to pacify a rebellion. Police repression is only one tool, and often counterproductive. In Chicago, the ACLU hijacked local legislation that would have enhanced the Black community’s power over the police, in favor of an agreement that papers over the…
Paul Bermanzohn
Hiding in Plain Sight: The History of the War on Drugs
26 Aug 2015
by Paul Bermanzohn The War on Drugs was a direct response to the African American uprisings of the 1960s. Three hundred cities rose in Black rebellion. A a fervor for change spread across the land. Richard Nixon “emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the…
Concerning Reactionaries and Thugs: The New Black Panther Party
26 Aug 2015
by Elbert “Big Man” Howard The recent assault on former Black Panther and 19-year political prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad reveals, once again, that the so-called New Black Panther Party is a collection of provocateurs and would-be assassins. “Although they stole our Ten Point Platform and Program and…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin on Miss Hillree an de Matter ob Blak Lives
26 Aug 2015
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner “Blak Lifes Mattur, yeah, but dey’s unnecessary Blak Lifes Mattur, ‘til Friday de 20 ob January
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Carl Dix: Revolutionary Communist – Fighting the Plague of Mass Incarceration
26 Aug 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Veteran activist Carl Dix discusses his early incarceration and how he became a revolutionary and a major figure in the fight against mass incarceration. The capitalist system has no place for Black and brown youth in this country. Its solution…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Bernie Sanders' Conservative Foreign Policy
26 Aug 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Bernie Sanders and his supporters claim he is different, a breath of fresh air. Yet he “won’t state for the record how his foreign policy differs” from Clinton and the Republicans. “He doesn’t question why the United States has the right to…
The Real News Network
#FightForDyett -- What Real Organizing Looks Like: South Side Chicago Parents Stage Hunger Strike at Dyett High School
26 Aug 2015
by the Real News Network Call Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel's office at 312-744-3300. Tell him the whole world is watching, he can give the parents their high school back RIGHT NOW. Call Alderman Will Burns at 773-536-8103 with the same message."
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Katrina: The Logic of Genocide
27 Aug 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The best thing that could happen to poor Black people is for a Katrina-like catastrophe to hit their city, scattering them to the four corners of the country. So says an article in a leading “liberal” magazine, which maintains that “the forced exodus of Katrina…