In
the coming months we will have to change out and upgrade our old
recording equipment, provide additional help to our friends at CBC
Monitor, produce the pilot of what we hope will be a weekly
black-oriented audio and video news program, and pay some modest
travel expenses. We intend to be here for a while, and to expand our efforts into broadcasting, via internet and over the old-fashioned cable and radio waves, and participate in some good old-fashioned face-to-face non-internet organizing. The need for independent, nonpartisan adversarial journalism isn't going away, and neither will we. Please help us stay out here.
Black Agenda Report's late Executive Editor, Glen Ford, gave this interview a decade after Hurricane Katrina to explore how the narrative of "starting over" is being used to whitewash the forced…
In this 2015 Real News Network interview the late Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report co-founder and Executive Editor, analyzed why an article in The New Yorker marking the 10th anniversary of Hurricane…
Twenty years ago, the world witnessed more than the suffering of hurricane Katrina's victims. The United States was exposed as a failed state controlled by the cruelties of racialized capitalism.
“It’s not like New Orleans was caught off guard. This could have been prevented.”
A forgotten history of cross-racial labor solidarity in 1890s New Orleans offered a glimpse of a potential future. Its deliberate destruction set the stage for the city's modern transformation into a…
