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Mark P. Fancher
Zimbabwe Pursues Economic Justice Despite U.S. Fickle Friendship Folly
04 Sep 2013
by Mark P. Fancher Newly re-elected Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has again defied the imperial wrath of the U.S. and Great Britain, with his announcement “that the government will seize foreign banks and mines and redistribute them to local investors.” Such actions can get one killed, but…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Roland Martin, Rick Sanchez and CNN Blow Off The Real Story. Again.
02 Sep 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon Having black reporters in the newsroom ought to make a difference in how stories are covered. But often it doesn't. The August 26 arrest of a black Brunswick GA preacher allegedly counter-protesting at a right wing demonstration against universal health care…
Wilmer J. Leon III
Obama’s Irresponsible Rhetoric Exacerbates Global Tensions
10 Sep 2013
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III The Obama administration tells the American public that its “intelligence” on Syrian government culpability for chemical attacks is ironclad, and that the “world” agrees with Washington. But much of the planet clearly disagrees. “Is it possible that the ‘world’ does not…
Chris Hedges
Cornel West and the Fight to Save the Black Prophetic Tradition
10 Sep 2013
by Chris Hedges African Americans have historically been the most progressive U.S. constituency because of the Black prophetic tradition, best personified today by Dr. Cornel West. This tradition has also saved the United States from itself. “America without the black prophetic tradition, from…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
The Black Budget and the Shadow National Security State
11 Sep 2013
by Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The “Black Budget” isn’t the sole domain of conspiratorialists, anymore. Thanks to Edward Snowden, we now know that the taxpayers dole out $52.6 billion a year to finance the “shadow” government of spies, provocateurs, hit men, human network trackers, drone…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Crack Cocaine Flick
10 Sep 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner Drone Man’s Set to do drive-bys, With the world divided Between “NO” and “HELL NO!”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama’s Humiliating Defeat
11 Sep 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford When presidents fail, it is a public spectacle. In his rush into unprovoked war against Syria, President Obama overplayed his hand. Shortly before he appeared on television on Tuesday, “Obama’s handlers advised him that his political position was, for the time…
Bill Quigley
About Us
12 Jan 2007
Black Agenda Report In the fall of 2006, Glen Ford, Bruce Dixon, Margaret Kimberley and Leutisha Stills of CBC Monitor left Black Commentator, which Ford had co-founded and edited since 2002, and launched Black Agenda Report. Executive Editor Glen Ford: A Certified Elder of the Black…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
EPA Victims Ask: Who Will Protect Us From Our Protectors?
18 Sep 2013
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The public need protection from the Environmental Protection Agency, a “rogue” department of government that ruthlessly suppresses the truth about its actual activities. “The EPA’s Office of General Counsel, Office of Civil Rights and the…
Sikivu Hutchinson
Public Enemy or Talented Tenth? The War Against Black Children
18 Sep 2013
by Sikivu Hutchinson Blacks are the scapegoats for America’s failure to keep pace in the world. “For a nation brainwashed into believing the U.S. is an exceptionalist beacon, the underachievement of black students has become both shorthand for and explanation of its low standing in academic…