| Black Agenda Report

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
“Booming” Economy Means More Bad Jobs and Faster Race to the Bottom
05 Dec 2019
For the past 30 years, no matter which party has been in power, the US economy has produced more and more “bad” jobs – because the Race to the Bottom is ruling class policy.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
A (Re)Born National “Black and Left-Led” Organization Fights for Community Control of Police
28 Nov 2019
On the momentum of Chicago’s anti-police movement – the most advanced in the nation – the city’s Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression has gone national after a highly successful confere
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The End of American Thanksgivings: A Cause for Universal Rejoicing
27 Nov 2019
The mythology that Thanksgiving nurtures is itself inherently evil.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Democrats Play at Impeachment, But are Serious About War
26 Nov 2019
The impeachment hearings won’t result in ousting Trump, but they scream everlasting conflict with Russia and anybody that does not bow down to American exceptionalism
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Public Housing as the Front Line of Green New Deal
21 Nov 2019
The AOC-Sanders initiative seeks to flip the racist script by revaluing public housing and its remaining occupants.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Race is Central to Both Revolution and Reaction in Latin American
14 Nov 2019
The world birthed in the near extinction of one-fifth of humanity still exists, in the social relations bequeathed to the Americas by conquistadors and enslavers.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Dems and Repubs are Moneypots, Not Real Political Parties
12 Nov 2019
If the Democrats were a real, mass based party, they would never consider Joe Biden as their nominee because he has no support among the people that energize parties: the youth.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
By trying to Silence Sanders, the Corporate Media De-Legitimize Themselves
07 Nov 2019
Sanders has been made into a non-person, and his proposals routinely distorted, because the corporate media want Americans to meekly submit to the Race to the Bottom.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Farewell to John Conyers Jr. – and to His Era
31 Oct 2019
John Conyers’ long career is a window on the decline of Black politics in the two generations since the demise of the mass Black movement.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Nobody Gets Liberated Until the Defeat of the Plutocrats
24 Oct 2019
The Lords of Capital commission their politicians and media servants to spin lies all day long, because every fact of capitalist life demands the overthrow of the system.