African America

Julian Cola
Reparations Hypocrisy: God Bless The Liberal That’s Got His Own
30 Nov 2016
by Julian Cola After two and a quarter centuries, legions of Americans are calling for repair of the U.S. voting system by abolishing the Electoral College. However, white liberals just “lost an…
Bill Quigley
Twelve Ideas Post-Election from Front Line Organizers
30 Nov 2016
by Bill Quigley Never in living history -- not even when Ronald Reagan won the White House -- have activists been so visibly distraught. The author has gathered some suggestions for coping with…
Patrick Bayer and Kerwin Kofi Charles
Black-White Earnings Gap Returns to 1950 Levels
30 Nov 2016
by Patrick Bayer and Kerwin Kofi Charles Gains in Black educational levels have been largely nullified, according to the authors. “The economic benefits that should have come from the substantial…
Robin D.G. Kelley
Trump Says Go Back, We Say Fight Back
23 Nov 2016
by Robin D.G. Kelley The author writes: “I am not suggesting that white racism alone explains Trump’s victory. Nor am I dismissing the white working class’s very real economic grievances. It is not a…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of Nov 21, 2016
22 Nov 2016
Green Party: Part of the Solution “I fully expected that we were going to get at least five percent of the vote,” said Green Party vice presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka. “I suspect that when push…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of Nov 14, 2016
15 Nov 2016
Cornel West: Class Becoming “Much More Central” “We are witnessing the end of the neoliberal era,” said Dr. Cornel West, the nation’s most prominent Black public intellectual, assessing the import of…
Bryan K. Bullock
Black American Anti-Imperialism: an Invisible Subject for the New York Times
08 Nov 2016
by Bryan K. Bullock To read the foreign policy pages of the New York Times is to enter a world of whiteness. “Whites are the only ones who are presumed to have an opinion on such issues that is worth…
Timothy Shenk
When Slaveholders Controlled the Government—An Interview with Matthew Karp
08 Nov 2016
by Timothy Shenk In order to downgrade the centrality of slavery to the development of the United States and global capitalism, mainstream historians attempt to depict the slaveholding classes as…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of Nov. 7, 2016
08 Nov 2016
Hi-Tech Production in the Service of Humanity in Mississippi Renaissance Jackson, the organization that briefly won the mayor’s office in predominantly Black Jackson, Mississippi, has launched a…
MOVE People
“When You Speak Up for the MOVE 9, You Speak Up for Yourself”
02 Nov 2016
by MOVE People The Philadelphia-based MOVE family was horribly victimized by police in 1978 and 1985. The first atrocity led to the mass imprisonment of MOVE members; the second assault killed five…