Posts Tagged ‘Glen Ford’
Occupy All the Harlems, to Save Ourselves from the Dictatorship of Wall Street
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The question for Black America is not what’s going on in the heads of young white people in Zuccotti Park, but how WE will organize in our own defense against Wall Street, which has “done more damage to Black people than anyone else” [Read More]
Malcolm X In Focus: A Happy Birthday Roundtable Discussion
Another angle of discussion on the legacy Malcolm X from Voxunion… To commemorate the birthday of Malcolm X we convened a very special 2 hour program, a round table discussion featuring in the first hour Glen Ford Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report.com, Dr. Mark [Read More]
Black Agenda Report: New York Times Attempts to Define and Dictate Black Politics
The Sunday magazine of the nation’s most influential newspaper predicts that Black politics as we know it is headed for extinction, that Barack Obama’s “brand of ‘race-neutrality’ shows Black politics is obsolete, and should be [Read More]
“Different, not deficient”
This is an edited transcript of a speech given by Rev Jeremiah Wright at an event for the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People in Detroit from Guardian Unlimited UK. I come from a religious tradition that did not hold slaves, but preached against [Read More]
Glen Ford: Four More Years of Black Irrelevance
Glen Ford breaks it down again! In a literal sense, Barack Obama never lied to Black people, since he never offered African Americans anything. For their part, Black voters never requested anything from Obama. From Obama’s standpoint, it turned out to be a perfect [Read More]
Barack Obama and the African American Community: A Debate with Michael Eric Dyson and Glen Ford
Does Barack Obama present a hope for dealing with African American issues? Or has he watered down his platform to appeal to white voters? Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson and veteran journalist Glen Ford debate. read more [Read More]
