African America

Black Agenda Report for Week of September 7, 2016
05 Sep 2016
20th Anniversary of Clinton’s War Against the Poor It’s been 20 years since President Bill Clinton and the U.S. Congress destroyed “welfare as we knew it” by replacing Aid to Families with Dependent…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Why Black Self-Determination Matters
01 Sep 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Malcolm X correctly anticipated that narrowly conceived “civil rights” could ultimately be curtailed. He therefore urged Black people to demand their human right to…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Obama Legacy Part IX: The Highest Expression of Counter Insurgency
31 Aug 2016
by Danny Haiphong After smashing the Black Liberation Movement, the U.S. ruling class” proceeded “to bury Black politics in the graveyard of the Democratic Party.” They met with great success in…
Robin D.G. Kelley
What Does Black Lives Matter Want?
31 Aug 2016
by Robin D.G. Kelley “A Vision for Black Lives” is a plan for ending structural racism, saving the planet, and transforming the entire nation—not just black lives,” writes the author, a noted Black…
Black Agenda Report for Week of August 29, 2016
29 Aug 2016
Rights Lawyers Target Arkansas Debtors Prison The district court in Sherwood, Arkansas, is in gross violation of a 1983 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that it is unconstitutional to imprison …
Katrina and Other Catastrophes
24 Aug 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The Lords of Capital learned a great deal from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. They learned that the Black Misleadership Class was…
Bryan K. Bullock
Assuming the Risk of Blackness
24 Aug 2016
by Bryan K. Bullock The purported “risks” that police voluntarily take are transferred to their Black and brown victims, who have no practical protections. Legal settlements do not balance the…
Mumia Abu Jamal
Black August
24 Aug 2016
by Mumia Abu-Jamal August is a month to assess and build upon the legacy of Black people’s resistance to the armed repression of the U.S. state and its agents. The author, the nation’s best known…
James Kilgore
Is This the Beginning of the End for the Private Prison Industry?
24 Aug 2016
by James Kilgore The Obama administration’s announcement that it would phase out private federal prisons is symbolically important, but will affect only a small slice of the nation’s huge…
Bill Quigley
Katrina Pain Index 2016 by the Numbers: Race and Class Gap Widening
24 Aug 2016
by Bill Quigley When much of Black New Orleans was forced out of town in the wake of Katrina, the powers-that-be welcomed the opportunity to make the purge permanent. Today, “there are 95,625…