African America

Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 26, 2016
26 Sep 2016
Prison Strike Against Slave Labor Continues Despite a near-total lack of corporate media coverage, the national prison strike that began September 9 continues at facilities in 11 states, said Pastor…
Murder by U.S. Occupation Forces: Tulsa 2016, Baghdad 2007
21 Sep 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The mayor of Tulsa is promising a “transparent” investigation into the police slaughter of another unarmed Black man, 40 year-old Terence…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Journey to No FEAR: 9/11
21 Sep 2016
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Adebayo The final stage of the battle to pass the No FEAR Act, designed to protect those who blow the whistle on discrimination in the federal civil service,…
Lindsey E. Jones
Black Girls, Domestic Violence, and the Limits of Self-Defense
21 Sep 2016
by Lindsey E. Jones Recent scholarship in the history of black women and the carceral state illustrates the extent to which systems of criminal justice and law enforcement have both historically…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 19, 2016
20 Sep 2016
Kaepernick’s Example Spreads “Like Wildfire” The same reality confronts the U.S. today as in 1776, said Dr. Gerald Horne, professor of History and African American Studies at the University of…
Malcolm Harris
A Future History of the United States
14 Sep 2016
A book review by Malcolm Harris Ned and Constance Sublette’s book indicts the ruling class of the United States for the sins of slavery, the institution that made them rich. “In so doing they recast…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 12, 2016
12 Sep 2016
Networks Need to “Do Their Jobs” and Hold 4-Way Debates RootsAction.Org is circulating a petition urging the television networks and cable news operations to “do their job, to hold a presidential…
Jeffrey Blankfort
Congressional Black Caucus: Deep in the Israel Lobby’s Pocket
07 Sep 2016
by Jeffrey Blankfort The Congressional Black Caucus is a bought-and-paid-for political ally of the planet’s last remaining apartheid state, Israel. “That the CBC has consistently, as a bloc, voted to…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Activists Owe No Apology for Solidarity with Palestinians
07 Sep 2016
by Darializa Avila Chevalier and Khury Petersen-Smith The Movement for Black Lives has voiced its unequivocal opposition to Israel’s genocidal policies in Palestine, prompting harsh attacks from…
Jon Jeter
ESPN’S Journal of Black Respectability Politics
07 Sep 2016
by Jon Jeter Michael Eric Dyson is up to his corporate tricks, this time in ESPN’s black-oriented web site The Undefeated. Dyson personifies the surrender of the Black middle class, in total synch…