| Black Agenda Report

BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
A War Criminal Chastises Children
20 Nov 2019
“This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re always politically woke and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Obama Condemns “Call Out Culture” Despite Being Its Biggest Beneficiary
13 Nov 2019
Obama’s cynical analysis of youth activism was yet another dog whistle to the wealthiest and most conservative sections of white America.
Bryan K. Bullock
A True Defense of Smiley and West
27 Mar 2019
Two men with track records of advocacy and activism were kicked to the curb in favor of a man with practically no history of Black advocacy.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Michelle Obama's Memoir "Becoming" -- Lots of Stories, Few Lessons
03 Jan 2019
If anybody else had written it, the first hundred pages of Michelle Obama’s book “Becoming” would stand as a brief, but warm and fuzzy memoir of growing up on the black south side of Chicago.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Michelle Obama Slanders Black Men in Her Book, Adds to the Obama Family’s Long Anti-Black Tradition
19 Dec 2018
The Obamas are cashing in on their lifelong project to further the destruction of Black people, while blaming the victim.
Paul Street
Same Old Obama: The First Black Presidential Library and Gentrification on Chicago’s South Side
25 Jul 2018
“Real estate interests are licking their chops over ‘development’ opportunities linked to the Obama Center’s construction.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Follow the Money, from Obama to Trump
13 Jun 2018
“If Obama ever showed any respect for the United Nations Charter, it must have been April Fool’s Day.”
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Obama Chugs Flint Water, Dodges Federal Responsibility, Delivers Another Cynical Lecture to Black Folks
12 May 2016
"the president cynically leveraged his blackness to obscure the fact that he was refusing to go after the guilty parties, while proposing no measures to ensure it didn't happen again."
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
The Black Wall Around Barack Obama: Who Does It Protect Him Against?
06 Apr 2011
The presumption that Barack Obama, no matter what he does or doesn't do, enjoys nearly unanimous black support is a veritable wall around the president. But who does it protect him against?
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
The New Black Politics: All We Want Is A Black Royal Family, Not Jobs, Peace, or Justice
16 Feb 2011
With record black unemployment, unjust wars and torture continuing, it's time to ask, Can we let a black pharoah go?