Profiling along the way storied Black leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Brown (for whom Ford once worked), The Black Agenda looks, too, beyond American shores, at US intervention in Libya, the Congo and the Middle East, showing how these are imbricated with racism at home.
This, he insists, depends on a Black constituency for electoral success, while using a co-opted “Black misleadership class” to sell out working people’s interests. In a survey stretching from the violent gentrification of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, through the engineered bankruptcy of Detroit, to the “more effective evil” of the Obama presidency, Ford casts a caustic eye on the empty posturing and corruption of the Democratic Party. This page was last edited on 27 April 2020, at 05:18 (UTC). It rises naturally out of the bloody decades and centuries of our people’s struggle on these shores. In this stunning overview, Glen Ford draws from his work for Black Agenda Report, one of the most incisive and perceptive publications of the progressive left, to examine competing struggles for class power and identity in the Black movement. The Black Agenda is a Trinidad and Tobago-based radio show hosted by David Muhammad that discusses racial issues in the Caribbean. THE BLACK AGENDA The Gary Declaration: Black Politics at the Crossroads Introduction The Black Agenda is addressed primarily to Black people in America.
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