Africa

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Obama Militarily Occupied Africa
26 Nov 2018
“In the 8 years that Barack Obama was president, “AFRICOM went from 3 military bases to 84 bases” on the continent, said Paul Pumphrey, co-founder of Friends of Congo, speaking at
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
21 Nov 2018
BAR’s readers challenge and expand upon the positions taken by our writers on Democratic gains in the House, intersectionality and police “reform.”
Cat Brooks
This Law Helps Police Get Away With Murder. Let's End It.
20 Nov 2018
Officers, who are armed and tasked to serve and protect, should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us, not a lower one.
Thomas C. Mountain
Saying Goodbye to UN Sanctions Against Eritrea
20 Nov 2018
Like so many imperial projects, the US had to abandon its long campaign to crush socialist Eritrea through sanctions and defamation.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
New Yorkers Can’t Trust Amazon
19 Nov 2018
Amazon, the world’s biggest company, “is not a trustworthy corporation,” said Maritza Silvs-Farrell, of Align, an alliance of labor and community groups that opposes awarding Amazo
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Ruling Class War Games at the White House
15 Nov 2018
The White House press corps, like the corporate media in general, are foot soldiers in a wider conflict between sections of the ruling oligarchy: Trump versus anti-Trump.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of November 11, 2018
13 Nov 2018
Alex Vitale: civilian agencies not cops should deal with social problems; Kyle Mays on
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Pan Africanists Lead “Be Clean” Campaign in Sierra Leone
13 Nov 2018
The Black Star Action Network International, founded in Tampa, Florida, is leading a “Be Clean” community sanitation and hygiene” campaign in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where the Pan Africanist organi
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Et tu, RT? Amplifying Western Disinformation on Rwanda
07 Nov 2018
The Great Lie about the Rwandan bloodbath opened the door to a far larger genocide in Congo and justified US military interventions all over the planet.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tracy Sharpley-Whiting’s “Bricktop’s Paris“ and Magdalena J. Zaborowska’s “Me and My House”
07 Nov 2018
Our authors explore the Black experience in Europe, past and present, and mine the deep reservoir of wisdom that is James Baldwin.