African America

Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 6, 2017
07 Feb 2017
Protests in Dixie Against Trump’s “White Supremacist Government” Hundreds gathered in Columbia, South Carolina, to protest President Trump’s ban on refugees and visitors from seven mostly Muslim…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Why White Folks Love Hidden Figures
01 Feb 2017
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo Hidden Figures is based on a vintage Hollywood formula of uncomplaining black victims and white saviors. “The idea of glamorizing the fact that these…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Inauguration Amnesia: The Context of Obama's Failure to Pardon US Political Prisoners
01 Feb 2017
by Danny Haiphong Barack Obama commuted the sentences of a few political prisoners, but pardoned none, leaving countless activists behind bars on trumped up federal charges. The very existence of…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 30, 2017
30 Jan 2017
Obamacare is Doomed; It’s Time for Single Payer Instead of attempting to salvage the doomed and fatally flawed Affordable Healthcare Act, progressives should seize the time and push for single payer…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Trump Will Probably Dump Police Department “Consent Decrees”
26 Jan 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Donald Trump is unlikely to approve of any more “consent decrees” to “reform” police departments. But this will be no great loss. As practiced, “the scheme very much…
Kali Akuno
Build and Fight: Beyond Trump and the Limitations of the United Front
25 Jan 2017
by Kali Akuno and Doug Norberg At this time of great crisis, there are fevered calls for the Left to forge a “united front.” However, “these calls rarely take into account the inequality or lack of…
Flint’s 1000-Plus Days Without Safe Drinking Water
25 Jan 2017
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford If you believe public health officials, lead levels in Flint, Michigan’s water have finally fallen to acceptable levels. The problem is,…
Is It Time To Revoke John Lewis’s Lifetime Civil Rights Hero Pass?
19 Jan 2017
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon John Lewis was a hero 52 years ago. What’s he doing nowadays with his Lifetime Civil Rights Hero pass? He’s a 14 term Atlanta…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: No Tears for John Lewis
18 Jan 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley John Lewis has parlayed his 1965 beating at the hands of Alabama police into a phony sainthood, and “now exemplifies everything that is wrong…
Black Lives Matter Wants to #ReclaimMLK’s Radical Legacy
18 Jan 2017
by TeleSUR Several Black organizations across the U.S. have launched a campaign to reject the mainstream image of Martin Luther King, Jr., which they call “capitalist revisionism.” Dr. King “became…