| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Remembering the Politics of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Age of Obama
21 Jan 2014
by Danny Haiphong Barack Obama took his presidential oath on Dr. King’s bible, but has spent every day in office fighting against MLK’s legacy. “If King were alive today, he would be on the streets opposing each and every one of Obama’s neo-liberal economic policies and imperialist wars.”
Pascal Robert
What Should it Mean to be Haitian in 2014
22 Jan 2014
by Pascal Robert The white colonialists have never forgiven Haitians for the revolution of 1804, the first successful revolt against white supremacy. “The slander and degradation against us about our poverty, alleged political incompetence, and poor educational infrastructure is tied to the…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Madness Under Obama: African Americans More Pro-NSA, Anti-Snowden Than Whites and Hispanics
23 Jan 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford A new poll shows “Blacks remain more NSA spy-friendly than whites and Hispanics.” Earlier surveys showed Blacks were the ethnic group most willing to go along with Obama’s threatened air war against Syria. What happened to Black progressivism? “If an individual…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Richard Sherman and America’s Sickness
22 Jan 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley White NFL fans blow hot and cold when it comes to their feelings about Black players. Idolatry turned quickly to hate when Richard Sherman forgot his “place.” The psycho-fanatic twitter mob “called Sherman a nigger, a thug, a gorilla, and a…
Anthony Monteiro
Amiri Baraka: Class Struggle and Cultural Revolution
22 Jan 2014
by Anthony Monteiro Amiri Baraka, the poet/activist who was laid to rest in his native Newark, New Jersey, last Saturday, came to understand 40 years ago that all art is ideological. “It is the courageous move from cultural nationalism to Cultural Revolution that liberated Baraka, and ultimately us…
Antoine Roger Lokongo
French Complicity in the Crisis in Central African Republic
22 Jan 2014
by Antoine Roger Lokongo Readers of the corporate media might conclude that France is carrying the White Man’s Burden in the Central African Republic, without which the Africans would descend into barbarism. However, “it is France that is ‘a burden’ to CAR and its other former colonies in Africa,…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
MSNBC: Cherry Picking News & Issues to Make Toxic Democrats Look Good
22 Jan 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon For the last couple weeks and several more to come, Chris Christie will get more air time on MSNBC than drone murders, gentrification, NSA spying, and network neutrality put together. Why not? He's a Republican, and Democrats are only fighting it out between…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Syria Peace Conference: the Obama’s Administration Orwellian Subterfuge
22 Jan 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka It is difficult to call this week’s gathering in Montreux, Switzerland, a “peace conference” on Syria, since the U.S. and its allies are determined to change the regime by force of arms. Washington has forged an “unholy alliance with its “Wahhabi allies from…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama Fights to Keep Black People in Jail
31 Jul 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Obama administration is fighting a federal court ruling that would free the remainder of the mostly Black prison inmates convicted under now-defunct, viciously racially disparate crack cocaine laws. The First Black President and his Black…
Jake Jonston
Outsourcing Haiti: How Disaster Relief Became a Disaster of its Own
29 Jan 2014
by Jake Jonston Billions of dollars have been directed towards Haiti earthquake relief – and most of the money has circled right back into the pockets of foreign corporations and NGOs. Hundreds of thousands remain in tents or dangerous dwellings. Yet, “by September 2013, nearly four years after the…