| Black Agenda Report

Ron Kipling Williams
The Falling Veneer of the Great Black Hope
17 Aug 2011
by Ron Kipling Williams Despite some decline in his Black approval rating, most African Americans that voted for President Obama behave like “tourists star struck at the vision of the micro palace on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” In this period of deep crisis, we must “remove his black face and…
Norman Richmond
George Jackson: Forty Years Ago, They Shot Him Down
17 Aug 2011
by Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Bachmann for President
17 Aug 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Most Democrats are so fixated on the prospect of another Republican in the White House, they are oblivious to the actual crimes of the current resident. “It is true that [Texas Gov. Rick] Perry called Social Security a ponzi scheme, but it…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Obama & the Fake Debt Ceiling Crisis: This President Is Really Just Smarter Than You Are
27 Jul 2011
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon So why won’t the president call Republican and bankster bluffs and shut down the phony debt ceiling crisis? Why won’t the Republicans take yes-may-I -have-another-tax-cut-for-the-rich for an answer? And why won’t president Obama stand up and fight for the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: How to Remember 9/11
24 Aug 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley In a few weeks, it all begins again: the howling scream-whine of a narcissistic nation oscillating wildly between fits of megalomania and depressive woe-is-me-ism. “Will there be calls for a true investigation into what the government knew…
Sikivu Hutchinson
Los Angeles Schools’ Apartheid Hall of Shame (Part One)
25 Aug 2011
by Sikivu Hutchinson It sounds like racial profiling in education, on a massive, institutional scale. “Black students are targeted, penalized and pushed-out in dizzyingly obscene numbers that predict and mirror their disproportionate numbers in L.A. County juvenile detention centers and adult…
Sikivu Hutchinson
LAUSD’s Apartheid Hall of Shame, Part 2: A View from the Classroom
08 Sep 2011
by Sikivu Hutchinson The Black student “push-out” phenomenon is directly related to Black mass incarceration. Studies show that “African Americans go to the dean’s office for less serious offenses than do Latinos and whites.” Disruptive behavior is in the subjective perception of the beholding…
Bill Quigley
Wave of Illegal, Senseless and Violent Evictions Swells in Port au Prince
14 Sep 2011
by Bill Quigley A year and a half after the earthquake, Haiti’s homeless legions are driven from place to place like vermin. “The administration of President Michel Martelly has apparently given a green light to widespread violent demolition of camps without any legal process.” Billions in…
Sikivu Hutchinson
Bad “Bitches,” True Women
20 Jul 2011
by Sikivu Hutchinson The Casey Anthony trial caused such consternation in white America because it “underscores how deeply the ideal of white womanhood is steeped in reverence for white motherhood” – as opposed to “the dark uncivilized Other of Africa, Asia and Latin America.” Yet the “violent…
Li Onesto
The Humanity and Courage of the Prisoners at Pelican Bay and the Moral Responsibility to Support Their Demands
20 Dec 2010
by Li Onesto No moral human being can defend the U.S. prison system, a gulag of torture and debasement designed primarily for the mass incarceration of Blacks and browns. “Nobody—no matter what they have done—deserves to be tortured. Nobody deserves to be put in such extreme conditions of…