‘Berniecrats’ Support Jackson Movement but Continue to Ignore War and U.S. Empire

By Bruce Dixon / Black Agenda Report Jul 15, 2017 Bernie Sanders' "Our Revolution" campaign appears to have pocketed the credibility of the Jackson, Miss., movement without giving Jackson or its principals a thing. (Pictured, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba.) Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

The Danger of Having David Clarke in a Top Post at the Department of Homeland Security

By Glen Ford / Black Agenda Report Jun 3, 2017 Glen Ford, executive editor of Black Agenda Report, sees the African-American sheriff from Milwaukee as an opportunist who curries favor with the most bigoted elements of Donald Trump's base. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Donald Trump Is Now in Sync With U.S. Imperial Policy in Syria

By Glen Ford / Black Agenda Report May 30, 2017 The United States has countered the Syrian-Russian-Iranian-Turkish de-escalation with a major escalation: "no-go" zones. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Study Shows School Vouchers Hurt Students — but Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos Could Not Care Less

By Glen Ford / Black Agenda Report May 8, 2017 The president and secretary of education are old-school "segregation academy" politicians with strong ideological investments in private school vouchers. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

MLK and Barack Obama: Diametrically Opposed Legacies

By Glen Ford / Black Agenda Report Apr 5, 2017 Have black people, historically the most left-leaning constituency in the United States, shed their anti-imperialist views and embraced war? Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

White Supremacy, U.S. Exceptionalism and Capitalist Dogma Are All ‘Fake News’

By Glen Ford / Black Agenda Report Dec 8, 2016 The greater the contrast between the official narrative and unfolding reality, the more intense the regime's crisis of legitimacy becomes. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

None of Them Has Ever Been My President

By Glen Ford / Black Agenda Report Nov 18, 2016 If the black movement was afraid of the likes of Donald Trump, it never would have gone up against the militarized police that occupy black communities. You can’t scare people with a specter if they've already fought the real thing. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Obama to Reinforce the Militarized Police Occupation of Black America

By Glen Ford / Black Agenda Report Aug 11, 2016 After militarizing police departments by 2,400 percent, President Obama is now preparing to send more battlefield weaponry to law enforcers. And Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump would surely build on that legacy. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Black Agenda Report’s Glen Ford Recalls When the Clintons Won Over Black America

Staff / Truthdig Jul 30, 2016 “The Clintons were not the black favorites in 1992,” he explains. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

State of the Union 2015: Lethal, Predatory, Delusional

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 22, 2015 "In his next-to-last State of the Union address," writes Glen Ford, Editor of the Black Agenda Report, "President Obama flashed the suckers a bag of tricks that has no chance of passing the Republican-controlled Congress, but will allow his apologists to claim that the genuine, more progressive Obama is revealing himself in his final two years in office." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

‘Reparations Is Not a Movement, It’s a Brand’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 19, 2014 Amid a renewed call for reparations to be paid to the descendants of America's black slaves, Bruce A. Dixon at the Black Agenda Report notes a crucial gap between the diagnoses and prescriptions made by socially concerned journalists. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Glen Ford

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 9, 2012 The old trope that truth telling requires a great deal of courage is not always right. Those who tell the truth often enjoy a rare freedom from the social pressures that compel others to distort what they know to make room for a belief in the world as they would like it to be.Those who tell the truth often enjoy a rare freedom from the social pressures that compel others to distort what they know to make room for a belief in the world as they would like it to be. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )