| Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Jeff Haas New Book, “The Assassination of Fred Hampton” is a Major Contribution To The Legacy of the Slain Panther Leader
29 Dec 2009
Attorney Jeffrey Haas co-founded Chicago's PLO, the Peoples Law Office, which has represented the victims of political persecution, torture and police misconduct for more than four decades. Haas was lead attorney in the decade-long lawsuit lodged by the families and survivors of the December…
Bill Quigley
Barack Obama is Bad for Black America
16 Dec 2009
by Solomon Comissiong The Great Hangover descends on Black America, as Obama supporters slowly, and reluctantly, emerge from their delusional stupor. The first Black president, it turns out, has nothing to offer African Americans. His message: “Black people should grin, bear it and suck it up while…
Bill Quigley
Indoctrination Through Celebration
18 Nov 2009
by Solomon Comissiong A more sane and just society than the United States would celebrate an entirely different set of heroes and events. “At a nearly subconscious level, the masses are indoctrinated to look with awe on some of the foulest examples of humanity ever assembled: slaveholders, Indian-…
Bill Quigley
The US Mainstream Media: Selective Omission and Planned Misinformation
16 Jun 2009
by Solomon Comissiong There is method to the maddening homogeneity and shallowness of the U.S. corporate media. “Keeping the public as dumbed down as possible keeps their corporate clients happy and their political partners in power.” Media corporations advertise that they sell “news,” but what…
Bill Quigley
Take a Look in the Mirror, America
14 Jul 2009
by Solomon Comissiong President Obama this week deployed his impressive oratorical skills to frame a false historical and current reality about Africa. “He used cheap rhetorical devices to essentially deny that his own country and other Western nations are equally, if not more, responsible for the…
Solomon Comissiong
Public Education in America: A Pillar of Institutional Racism
21 Jul 2009
by Solomon Comissiong Last week, Barack Obama once again “felt the need to lecture black people about what they can and cannot complain about.” No excuses, no excuses, the president hectored – as if to delegitimize Black struggles for redress of real grievances. “On the one hand he knows not to…
Bill Quigley
Professional Athletics, Corporate Media, and Racism
27 May 2009
by Solomon Comissiong What's the point of debating the salaries of professional athletes? To a far greater extent than we can afford, African Americans allow themselves to be distracted by games. "We cannot allow ourselves to become more preoccupied with the final score of the Sunday…
Bill Quigley
Let’s Just Get Along: Poll Passes Up Structural Analysis of Race
09 Jan 2008
by Seth Wessler Measuring racial attitudes is notoriously difficult, and using polls to probe the extent of institutional racism can only be useful if the pollsters are clear on what institutional racism actually is. Surveys of individual attitudes towards various ethnic and racial groups can…
Bill Quigley
The Socialist Joy of Langston Hughes
10 Oct 2007
A Review of Jonathan Scott's New Book by Seth Sandronsky
Bill Quigley
How America’s Immigrants Became White
16 May 2007
by Seth Sandronsky The United States has historically been, in the actual words of the original quotation, a "melting pot for all the races of Europe...." In reality, the evolving process was aimed at transforming immigrants from various European nationalities into generic "whites" - and to…