| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: America the Stupid
21 Feb 2007
by BAR Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley The chairman of one of the most powerful committees in the Texas legislature thinks the sun and planets revolve around the Earth. A U.S. congressman cites Davy Crockett at the Alamo to justify the Iraq war. America's collective IQ is…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Barack Obama & Voter Supression: Where's Joshua's Horn When We Need It?
11 Apr 2007
by Bruce A. Dixon Republicans have developed and deployed an arsenal of tactics, strategies and tools aimed at suppressing the black and Latino vote, according to recent report by the Brennan Center for Justice.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Why Barack Obama Needs a Whuppin’: Honest Abe, He Ain’t
13 Jun 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Bill Quigley
How to Destroy an African-American City in Thirty-Three Steps – Lessons from Katrina
04 Jul 2007
by Bill Quigley How can we destroy a Black city? - let us count the ways. Federal, state and local officials appear to have compiled a comprehensive list of destructive acts of commission and omission - and pursued every possible tactic to permanently de-Blacken New Orleans. The…
Bill Quigley
Racism in the Bleachers
04 Jul 2007
by David Zirin The anti-Barry Bonds frenzy grows more crazed every day, as the he approaches his 756th homer. Fans unashamedly demand that pitchers do Bonds bodily harm, to stop him from becoming Alltime Homerun King. None will admit they are racist - No! it's the steroids, they say. But if…
Leutisha Stills
Why Is Tavis Smiling -- And Why Are We Watching?
02 Mar 2006
by Leutisha Stills How do you explain the career of Tavis Smiley? Is he a journalist? Some new kind of black leader? A celebrity? A marketer? BAR correspondent Leutisha Stills reports from the 2006 State of the Black Union, the annual event put on by Tavis…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Heroes and Hypocrites: Black Caucus Shattered on Iraq
28 Mar 2007
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce A. Dixon More than two-thirds of the Congressional Black Caucus signed on as members of the Out of Iraq Caucus, but when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic corporate cohorts turned up the fire, all but four melted into the mass of hypocrisy that joined the U.…
Bill Quigley
CBC's ALC: Black America's Best & Brightest? What if We Really Believed It?
05 Sep 2007
by BAR managing Editor Bruce Dixon What if we really believed what the boosters of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference (CBC-ALC) say about the affair --- that it's an annual gathering of black America's best and brightest leaders, doers, dreamers…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Putting Black Faces on Imperial Policies
14 Feb 2007
by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford As African Americans contemplate the possibility of Barack Obama in the Oval Office, they should consider the ramifications of a Black face at the helm of an unreconstructed imperial policy. During the Secretary of State tenures of Colin Powell and…
Jared Ball
Hip-Hop, Mass Media and 21st Century Colonization
21 Mar 2007
by Dr. Jared A. Ball, Ph.D., Communications Fellow What differentiates today's US empire from all others before it is control of media, including control of entertainment media, argues the emancipatory journalist and the man behind FreeMix Radio. Hip-Hop has been colonized, appropriated…