Glen Ford

Glen Ford is the executive editor of the Black Agenda Report. He can be contacted at [email protected]

Glen Ford: Having Not Yet Won Any Real Power Over Police, This Is No Time for a Truce

The oligarchs that rule the country and control both of its corporate parties and all of its major media want the people to believe that politics is limited to the electoral process, and that street activism, labor militancy, and community organizing are outside the realm of “real” politics.  

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By Glen Ford
Black Lives Matter Feature Photo

New York City (BAR) — The awesome power of massed, militant people in motion has been manifest since the Memorial Day murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Much of the world now knows Floyd’s name; majorities of Americans say they support  “Black Lives Matter”; New York City’s mayor pledged to slash his cops’ budget in deference to the Black Lives

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Shaun King Embraces the FBI and CIA as Paragons of Justice

Grand juries that routinely fail to indict killer cops become paragons of justice and virtue in Shaun King’s mind when manipulated to indict Russians.

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By Glen Ford
Shaun King

Shaun King is an activist in a bubble, hobbled by a shrunken worldview that makes him an ally of the same forces of racial and economic repression he purports to oppose. The stunted nature of King’s politics was laid bare in a July 18 article in The Intercept. He had just seen President Trump “willfully dodge and deny the overwhelming evidence

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How “Progressives” in the Black Caucus Shrunk to Almost Nothing

The thoroughly corporate nature of the Democratic Party is the reason that only three Black Caucus members are minimally worthy of the term “progressive.”

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By Glen Ford
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, left, accompanied by James Clyburn, D-S.C., right, receives the Phoenix award at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Phoenix Awards Dinner at the Washington Convention center, in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016. | AP

The “Russiagate” hysteria is only the latest reason to conclude that the Democratic Party is the greatest institutional impediment to the creation of mass “resistance” to onrushing war and never-ending austerity under late-stage capitalism. Last week’s vote on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2019 showed, by the numbers, that

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Congressional Black Caucus Betrays Its Constituents in Favor of Pro-Police Agenda

Three out of every four members of the Black Caucus in the U.S. House voted to make assaults on police officers a federal hate crime.

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By Glen Ford

The bigger the Congressional Black Caucus gets, the more it betrays its constituents. Last Wednesday, three out of every four members of the Black Caucus in the U.S. House voted to make assaults on police officers a federal hate crime. The Protect and Serve Act of 2018 is totally superfluous, since cops are already the most protected “class” in the

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