African America

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…
Black Agenda Report for Week of August 22, 2016
23 Aug 2016
Presidential Pollsters Ask the Wrong Question “There’s no major poll that I know of that asks the American public who they want to be president,” said journalist and VotePact founder Sam Husseini.…
Blacks to Arrive at Promised Land in Year 2244
17 Aug 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Obama Legacy Part VII: The Deporter in Chief
17 Aug 2016
by Danny Haiphong Donald Trumps racist rants against immigrants have overshadowed the fact that “more undocumented immigrants have been deported under Obama's rule than any other in history” --…
Bakari Kitwana
Arresting Development: The State Targets Activists to Derail a Movement
17 Aug 2016
by Bakari Kitwana The movement against police terror is spawning another generation of political prisoners, many of them virtually unknown and without organizational support. “Unknown numbers of…
Black Agenda Report for Week of August 15, 2016
16 Aug 2016
Greens are Alternative to “Democratic Plantation” Ajamu Baraka, the veteran Black activist tapped as Jill Stein’s presidential running mate, said the Green Party can make a difference, this year, by…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Police State Fascism
10 Aug 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Black people live under a fascist system, whether the occupant of the White House is a “fascist” or not. For Blacks, the “rule of law” does not…
Ramor Ryan
Anatomy of a Neoliberal Racist Killing Machine
10 Aug 2016
by Ramor Ryan The U.S. exports to the rest of the world an industrial-strength strategy of policing that is rooted “in counterinsurgency campaigns.” The “Broken Windows” philosophy of policing…
Black Agenda Report for Week of August 8, 2016
08 Aug 2016
Voters Have Choices Outside the Duopoly Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are both “evil” people, but U.S. voters do have choices this election season, said South Carolina activist and author Kevin…