African America

Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Empire’s Weapon of Identity Politics and the “Ghetto” Comment Controversy
16 Mar 2016
by Danny Haiphong President Obama’s political pit bulls have become attack dogs for Hillary Clinton. MSNBC pundit Joy Reid “has placed her career prospects” in Clinton’s camp, employing identity…
Paul Street
Bernie, Black, and Blue: Reflections on Race in the Democratic Primaries
16 Mar 2016
by Paul Street If Black people are the most left-leaning constituency in the United States, why have they been voting for right-wing Democrat Hillary Clinton in the primaries? It is true that Bernie…
Bryan K. Bullock
Blacks Have Always Had to Fight to Make Their Lives Matter in America
16 Mar 2016
by Bryan K. Bullock The simple, straight-forward assertion “Black Lives Matter” seems to jangle the sensibilities of millions of white Americans, who counter that “ALL lives matter” or “BLUE lives…
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
Why We Should Teach About the FBI’s War on the Civil Rights Movement
16 Mar 2016
by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 14, 2016
15 Mar 2016
“Billionaires” Fund Defamation of Public Schools, Teachers A poll commissioned by In The Public Interest shows Americans still hold public schools and teachers in high regard, want charter schools to…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
The “Negro Whisperer” from 1926 to 2016: Seasonal Workers
09 Mar 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo MSNBC has decided that its stable of in-house Black Democrats is no longer in season, and can be discarded. Melissa Harris-Perry is hurt. She…
Kali Akuno
Countering the Confederate “Spring”: the Assault on Black Political Power in Jackson, MS
09 Mar 2016
by the Jackson Human Rights Institute and Cooperation Jackson Majority Black Jackson, Mississippi is about to be stripped of control of its most valuable assets by a Republican legislature.…
Paul Street
“All Lives Matter”: More Stupid White Noise
09 Mar 2016
by Paul Street Mountains of statistics testify to the national disregard for Black lives. But white supremacists fire back that Blacks have “brought it on themselves” and victimize their own people…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Huey Newton: A Revolutionary Hero
09 Mar 2016
by Danny Haiphong The film that does justice to Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party has yet to be created. Stanley Nelson’s PBS depiction “is riddled with distortion and inaccuracy” and…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 7, 2016
08 Mar 2016
New FBI Guidelines for Targeting Classroom “Radicals” The nation’s teachers will soon be getting revised FBI guidelines on how to spot “radicalized” students. “The modern FBI ‘counter-violence and…