| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Chad Now Awash in Blood, Alongside Darfur: U.S. Mischief
28 Mar 2007
by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford The flow of refugees now streams both ways on the border of the cauldron of death, Darfur. To the east, the major culprits in the crime against humanity are the rulers of Sudan. To the west, a U.S.-dominated Chadian regime is in charge, firmly implanted in…
Bill Quigley
Hip Hop May Not Be Dead, But Internet Radio May Soon Be
30 May 2007
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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Charter School Lobby Buys Elections
15 Sep 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley When hedge funds invade the public schools arena, we are no longer talking about education, but of markets. Obama's version of education reform is to turn the schools into profit centers for the speculator class. “Education is up for grabs and…
George Schmidt
Obama Ordering States to Close 5,000 'Failing' Schools!... Chicago Lies Go National
03 Jun 2009
by George Schmidt The corporate narrative that public schools in minority neighborhoods are "failing" and must be replaced by unaccountable but often highly profitable "charter schools" is an inheritance from the Bush era that the Obama administration intends to continue and intensify. Despite any…
michael hureaux perez
Eshu’s blues: The president holds forth on education
09 Sep 2009
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez Barack Obama has as much right as his predecessors to dispense bromides to children. “But there is a profound falsehood being told when he claims the families of public school students, or teachers have done 'everything we can' to make sure that kids have what…
michael hureaux perez
Eshu’s blues: Teachers Defend Their Communities and Themselves
30 Sep 2009
by michael hureaux perez Teachers in a small school district in the Puget Sound region of Washington went on strike against the corporate “reform” juggernaut – and survived the experience. “For 17 days, Kent teachers held the line against the usual Dickensian shopkeeper horse manure that dominates…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Black Politics Is Over: Black Politicians No Longer Believe Social Justice Is Possible
07 Jan 2010
The day before being sworn in, Atlanta's new mayor Kasim Reed pledged to the Chamber of Commerce he'd deal with downtown panhandlers in what he called a more "muscular" fashion. The hopes and predictions of white pundits that black political life would come to look like the rest of America have…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Wisconsin Assault on Workers
23 Feb 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Only two years after the party supported by most of organized labor won a decisive national election, the Republicans are on the verge of crushing union power once and for all. But, the White House seems singularly uninvolved. “President…
Tolu Olorunda
Home is Where the Hatred Is: A Conversation With Isabel Wilkerson
23 Feb 2011
by Tolu Olorunda The mass Black relocation from the Old Confederacy to the North was one of “the greatest unreported stories of the Twentieth Century,” said Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Greatest Migration. Journalist Tolu Olorunda…
Sikivu Hutchinson
Planned Parenthood and the Rape of American Women
23 Feb 2011
by Sikivu Hutchinson The right-wing lynch mob is out to destroy Planned Parenthood in the same way it smashed ACORN. In addition to the usual white suspects, “these pro-death marauders” are reinforced by “black preachers, and Christian soldiers like MLK’s anti-abortion activist niece Alveda…