| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Prepares to Triangulate Himself
20 Oct 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford What a guy! Barack Obama has neutralized Blacks, the white left, and the majority of his own party in service to Wall Street, and some still call him “liberal” (The insane call him “socialist.”) With Social Security and Medicare in his sights, “the stage is…
michael hureaux perez
Eshu’s Blues: charter schools and the rest of us
22 Oct 2008
by michael hureaux John McCain and Barack Obama "share the same market nostrums for education reform, from charter schools to merit pay to the test mania of No Child Left Behind," but have no inkling of the meaning of comprehensive education. An educator himself, the author advocates that…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Teachers File Racial Discrimination Suit Against Obama Administration's School “Turnaround” Plan
17 Jun 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Public-private partnerships between Chicago's City Hall, where two men named Richard Daley have ruled more than 40 of the last 55 years, and a gaggle of corporate bagmen from the Gates, Bradley, Walton and other foundations have honed a disastrous “education…
michael hureaux perez
Eshu’s blues: Obama and Duncan’s “Race to the Top”
19 Aug 2009
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan are sold on charter schools and so-called “public-private partnerships.” In order to impose their corporate philosophy of education, the duo wave $5 billion under the noses of hard-pressed states,…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Obama's First 100 Days -- The Black Agenda Report Card
29 Apr 2009
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce A. Dixon Why a Report Card At All? The hundred day report card is an enduring tradition in American journalism for a very good reason. It's journalism's job to help citizens make sense of the world, to seek the truth and tell it without fear or favor no matter where it…
Bill Quigley
High Stakes Teaching and the “Value-Added” Sham
25 Aug 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson The Los Angeles Times recently weighed in against the city’s scapegoated teachers, giving public school elementary educators low marks on so-called ‘value-added’ assessments – a term that is as corporate as they come. The new regime serves neither teachers nor students. Rather…
Bill Quigley
Model Minorities vs. Black (Reverse) Racists: Blacks, Asian Americans, and South Philadelphia High
06 Jan 2010
by Tamara K. Nopper What happens when Blacks are perceived by other minorities and by whites as the bosses, wielders of state power? How does the Blacks-in-charge perception jibe with stereotypes of Black incompetence and violence. And where do Asians, the so-called “model minority,” fit into this…
Bill Quigley
The Warrior Tradition
09 Mar 2011
James Thindwa
Climate Gambit: How Rightwing Hypocrisy Threatens Us
09 Mar 2011
by James Thindwa The Right is ever-eager to demand war on the slimmest of evidence of actual threat to the United States, but denies overwhelming evidence of the grave threat global warming poses to all humanity. “If Iraq’s alleged nuclear program was a looming ‘mushroom cloud’ worth…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Peace Prize Torture
09 Mar 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The United States, governed by a Nobel Peace Prize winner, tortures political prisoners. That truth is on display for all the world to see, in the treatment of Wikileaks defendant Private Bradley Manning, who is stripped naked every…