Writing about James Brown in 2014 Glen Ford said, “Left unsaid was the fact that “Mr. Brown” held only one Black person in high regard: himself. With the release of the movie Get On Up, those of us who knew “Soul Brother Number One” are free at last to tell the truth: he was an…
Read moreCommemorating Bruce Dixon
It is with a heavy revolutionary heart that we share this insufficient tribute to Bruce Dixon. Thanks to DaveyD, Hard Knock Radio and KPFA.
Read moreMurdering Fred Hampton and Black Power with Bruce Dixon and Todd Steven Burroughs
Coming on the heels of the 44th anniversary of the assassination of Fred Hampton (December 4, 1969) and the 45th anniversary of the founding of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party Bruce Dixon of BlackAgendaReport.com and Dr. Todd Steven Burroughs of DrumsInTheGlobalVillage.com were on hand for a discussion of the academic erasure of…
Read moreBlack Lives Do Matter But Do They Move?
Executive editors at BlackAgendaReport.com Glen Ford and Bruce Dixon discuss the latest and potential future of #BlackLivesMatter.
Read moreMarginalized Black Academics and A Call to Rally AGAINST The Congressional Black Caucus
We were joined this week by sociologist Dr. Darryl Brice to discuss the marginalization of Black academics and then by Asantewa Nkrumah Ture and Bruce Dixon (Managing Editor of BlackAgendaReport.com) for a discussion of an upcoming rally to protest the support of war, militarizing the police and Israeli apartheid by the Congressional Black Caucus. We…
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