African America

If White People Love Drugs So Much, Why are the Prisons Full of Blacks?
18 May 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford A new study cites huge disparities, by race, in drug use among former detainees at Chicago’s juvenile detention center. Whites were 30…
Lurie Daniel Favors Esq
The Result of the Akai Gurley Case Reminds Us that New York State Needs a Permanent Special Prosecutor
18 May 2016
by Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq. A Chinese American cop was found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death, without provocation, of Akai Gurley. Yet, the Brooklyn, New York, district attorney…
Bill Quigley
Louisiana Number One in Incarceration
18 May 2016
by Bill Quigley With over 38,000 people in prison, Louisiana is first in the planet in per capita incarceration. Plus, “there are an additional 69,000 people in Louisiana on probation and parole.”…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 16, 2016
17 May 2016
Black Brazil Will Resist “Soft Coup” Against Workers Party Dilma Rousseff, of the Brazilian Workers Party, was removed from her office as president, last week, and put on trial by the nation’s Senate…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Obama Chugs Flint Water, Dodges Federal Responsibility, Delivers Another Cynical Lecture to Black Folks
12 May 2016
"the president cynically leveraged his blackness to obscure the fact that he was refusing to go after the guilty parties, while proposing no measures to ensure it didn't happen again."
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
40% of Detroit Will be Deprived of Life Sustaining Water: the UN Investigates Human Rights Violations
11 May 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The United States has no moral authority to speak of “human rights” as an American “value” when it systematically deprives Detroit’s Black poor…
Shea Howell
There’s Nothing Fair About Detroit’s Massive Water Shut Offs
11 May 2016
by Shea Howell
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Johanna Fernandez Speaks on the Revolution and Counter Revolution that Mumia Abu-Jamal Embodies
11 May 2016
by Danny Haiphong Mumia Abu Jamal has spoken Truth to Power since his teen days in the Black Panther Party, then as a crusading radio newsman and, since 1981, as a political prisoner. Historian and…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 9, 2016
10 May 2016
Detroit Teachers “Browbeaten” Back to Work by National Union The two-day teachers sick-out that closed Detroit public schools last week was about much more than paycheck issues, said Steve Conn, the…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Bernie to Deliver Captive Constituencies to the Democratic Convention
05 May 2016
Bernie will take his campaign all the way to the convention. We called him a sheepdog back in May 2015, and he's filling exactly that role, enticing the Dems' captive constituencies back into the…