African America

Miles Kampf-Lassin
The Anti-Union Janus Ruling Is Going to Hit Black Women the Hardest
04 Jul 2018
“The public sector provides job opportunities for African-American workers, and women especially, at a rate much higher than the private sector.”
Josmar Trujillo
Papers Insist ‘We Need’ Secret Gang Databases—Just Like We ‘Needed’ Stop & Frisk
04 Jul 2018
“Police gang databases can lead to increased bail, harsher sentencing, erosion of presumption of innocence and even increased chances of deportation.”
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
What’s a Gang, and Who’s In It?
03 Jul 2018
The New York City police department keeps a list of 42,000 alleged gang members, and uses it to bring conspiracy charges that have resulted in mass arrests in Black and brown neighborhoods.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Buffalo Neighborhoods Saturated With Checkpoints
03 Jul 2018
For the past five years, Buffalo, New York, cops have concentrated their checkpoints on the Black side of town, raking in record revenues from fines.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
“Brutality Bonds”
03 Jul 2018
Cities have gone billions of dollars in debt to pay for court settlements and judgments against brutal cops, with the profits from these so-called “brutality bonds” going mainly to large banks.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Racial and Ethnic Roundups are Legal, As Long As “Race” Is Not the Only Reason
28 Jun 2018
“When the feds invoke ‘national security’ all bets are off on how far they will go in suppressing the ‘threat,’ including mass roundups.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: No Protest for Black People
27 Jun 2018
by Margaret Kimberley by Margaret Kimberley
Leslie Mac
Family Separation Through Prison and Policing Should Also Outrage Us
27 Jun 2018
“This country continues to routinely separate children from their parents and has done so well before this current border crisis.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alaí Reyes-Santos’ “Our Caribbean Kin”
27 Jun 2018
“One must always be mindful of the kinship models one mobilizes to get people together in a quest for justice.”
Bryan K. Bullock
Modern Black Codes and the Cops That Enforce Them
27 Jun 2018
“The police respond as if the black person is guilty of whatever transgression the white person said they committed.”