| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Courts Again Confront Racism in Firefighter Hiring
28 Jul 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act still lives, despite the U.S. Supreme Court's reversal of then…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Two Thirds of Prison "Lifers" Are Black and Latinos
28 Jul 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary. American determination to arrest ever-increasing numbers of Blacks and to keep them locked up for as…
michael hureaux perez
Eshu’s blues: Gates Busted by Officer Jim Crowlaw, uh, James Crowley
28 Jul 2009
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez President Obama is so averse to calling racism by its name, he sometimes makes himself sound less than intelligent – such as when he called a policeman “stupid” for doing what cops do to Black men every day of the week. Obama's Harvard buddy “Skip” Gates comes…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“Responsibility to Protect” is Warmed-Over Imperialism
28 Jul 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary. “R2P” is the latest American device to justify military aggression and regime-change in the developing…
Bill Quigley
When Lighting Up is Drinking from the Whites-Only Fountain
28 Jul 2009
by Richard Leader Given that white drug users are spared the relentless prosecution and long prison terms reserved for African Americans, are such whites beneficiaries of a racist system? The author believes so. “Until the experience of drug use is the same for people of all races, whites engaging…
Bill Quigley
“Skip” Gates Slapped So Hard, the Red, White and Blue Pom-Poms Dropped from His Eyes
28 Jul 2009
by Henry Rose Dr. Gates told the Cambridge cop he didn't know who he was messing with. But some of us Black folks know Dr. Gates only too well. “Over the last 15 years Gates has often been enlisted by America’s most prestigious media venues to knock down radical Black initiatives, the Black…
Bill Quigley
“Skip” Gates: A Curious Martyr in the Struggle Against Racism
28 Jul 2009
by Paul Street President Obama’s “friend” Dr. Henry Louis Gates has been richly rewarded for arguing “that poor African-Americans are largely to blame for the fact that blacks stand at the bottom of the nation’s steep socioeconomic pyramid.” Presumably, and by the same logic, Gates must now blame…
Bill Quigley
Encounters with Police: Teachable Moments
28 Jul 2009
by Robert Jensen A frequent lecturer on race and politics, the author was confident that he was reasonable well acquainted with the workings of racism in the United States. Attuned to the pervasiveness of white privilege, he believed himself both sophisticated and sensitive on matters of race. Then…
Bill Quigley
How Henry Louis Gates Got Ordained as the Nation's "Leading Black Intellectual"
28 Jul 2009
by Ishmael Reed Who is Henry Louis Gates and how did he get to be one of the nation's most prominent black academics? How has he managed to make a career talking down to African Americans before white audiences? Ishmael Reed dishes out a little history, explaining what one has to do…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Black Unemployment Ignored
28 Jul 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The damage inflicted on Black America since the economic meltdown is absolutely unprecedented in modern times – but African Americans have yet to “develop an agenda and make the requisite demands” of power. In New York City, Black unemployment…