| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Black America, Corporate Media and the Siege of Gaza
02 Jun 2010
This weekend, heavily armed Israeli military forces intercepted a flotilla bearing relief supplies for Gaza in international waters. The intention of the crew and passengers, who hail from more than a dozen countries and include a number of Israeli Jews, was to run the more than three year old…
Bill Quigley
Federal Authorities Paid Journalists To Sabotage Trial
09 Jun 2010
by Linn Washington Jr. Members of the rabidly anti-Castro Miami press got some extra incentives to make it impossible for the Cuban Five to get a fair trial, in 2001. The federal government spread plenty of cash around among the press to inflame opinions in an already hostile environment. “…
Benjamin Woods
The Failure of Negro Leadership
09 Jun 2010
by Benjamin Woods The crisis of Black American leadership is rooted in 1830s and 1840s political strategies designed to convince whites of Black people’s “humanity and worthiness” – an elitist approach that cut the masses of Blacks out of the picture. “In 1920 Harlem radical Hubert Harrison…
Bill Quigley
Michelle Alexander: Black Mass Incarceration IS the New Jim Crow
14 Apr 2010
If you cannot see the video above, click here. Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, speaks in NYC on how the phenomenon of black mass incarceration became social policy in the U.S. in the past thirty years. About one hour.
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
"D- Ridin' Obama:" Boondocks Creator Aaron McGruder Throws a Bomb
21 Apr 2010
"Boondocks" creator Aaron McGruder, whose pointed satires of BET were banned from TV stations in 2008 is at it again. Season 3 clips of "Boondocks" are being released, depicting fictional and real rappers Thugnificent and Will I Am singing "D* Riding Obama" are making the rounds, and…
Bill Quigley
Political Prisoners: What Will We Do About It?
15 Jun 2010
by Kwasi Anokye Americans – including some African Americans – rant about political prisoners held in countries they cannot even identify on a map, yet seem oblivious to the fact that fellow Americans languish in U.S. prisons for political reasons. Others know full well the plight of political…
Bill Quigley
African American Mississippi Man Starts Record Sixth Murder Trial
15 Jun 2010
by Bill Quigley, Audrey Stewart and Davida Finger White prosecutors in a rural Mississippi county won’t rest until they send Curtis Flowers to prison for life. Flowers faces his sixth trail for the same murder – unprecedented in the history of the United States – after five previous trials…
Bill Quigley
Cultural Extinction: Louisiana’s Coastal Communities Fear They May Never Recover
15 Jun 2010
by Jordan Flaherty Even before the latest catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, Big Energy had laid waste to Black and Native American communities along the coast. At least five all-Black towns were wiped from the face of the earth by corporate pollution, and the last redoubt of the Pointe-au-…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: BP Rules
01 Jun 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley BP and the mere humans that run it remain “in charge” of the scene of their crime, despite President Obama’s protestations to the contrary. “The Coast Guard only allows as much media access as BP will allow” – proof that the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Trouble with Arizona, and Obama
09 Jun 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The history of the state of Arizona is as much stained by the Confederacy as by the usual Old West pathologies, having once been claimed as a territory of the breakaway Slave Republic. Reconstruction never reached Arizona, which has…