African America

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Movement Needs to Bulk Up
28 May 2018
“If we are serious about overthrowing this system,” said Larry Hamm, of the Newark, New Jersey-based People’s Organization for Progress, “we’re going to have to build a mass moveme
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Super-Hero Comics and Black Empowerment
28 May 2018
Prof Turtel Onlihas been producing and marketing Black super-hero comic books for more than four decades, through his Chicago-based Onli Studios.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Ghastly Crimes of U.S. Empire -- Mumia and Co-Author’s New Book
28 May 2018
Stephen Vittoria is co-author with Mumia Abu Jamal of the new book, Murder Incorporated: Empire, Genocide and Manifest Destiny – Book One.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Caucus Sells Out Its Constituents Again – to the Cops
23 May 2018
“This bill will be received as yet another attack on these communities and threatens to exacerbate what is already a discriminatory system of mass incarceratio
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Keisha Blain’s Set the World on Fire
23 May 2018
“It is impossible to understand, or even fully appreciate, how black women have shaped national and global politics today without knowing the larger history.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ M Archive
23 May 2018
“This moment we are living through has infinite possibilities, and not all of those possibilities include the existence of humans.”
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Free the MOVE 9
22 May 2018
Mike Africa Jr, the son of two MOVE 9 members imprisoned for the past four decades in a the death of a Philadelphia policeman, said supporters have stepped up efforts to free the i
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The People Versus Whirlpool in Benton Harbor
22 May 2018
The giant Whirlpool Corporation, which has long dominated the politics of 90 percent Black Benton Harbor, Michigan, “has not paid taxes” to the city for years, said Rev.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Black Support for the Police State
16 May 2018
“If having black faces in high and not so high places doesn’t save our lives why should we support them at all?”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
What does Kanye West Have to do with the Jobless Rate? A Lot
16 May 2018
“Kanye West merely represents what happens when the Black misleadership class begins to reflect the crisis of the US system.”