African America

Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Bye Melissa
02 Mar 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Margaret Kimberley When Melissa Harris-Perry publicly announced her resignation from MSNBC, the cable network that serves as the Democratic Party's house organ, she…
High Corporate Crimes In Michigan Must be Terminated with Extreme Prejudice
02 Mar 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford “Under corporate rule, high finance is the motive for the highest of crimes, while the exercise of free speech and assembly and other…
Maya Rockeymore
Did the People Who Took Home Oscars Really Deserve Them, Given How Biased the Process Was?
02 Mar 2016
by Maya Rockeymoore The people who control the selection of artists and project teams for Hollywood films are 96 percent white and 87 percent male. They are not smarter or more creative than…
Robin D.G. Kelley
Yes, I Said “National Liberation”
02 Mar 2016
by Robin D.G. Kelley Peace is not just the absence of violent warfare; peace is justice: No Justice – No Peace. In Palestine and in the U.S., what we seek is a new and better world, not…
Bill Quigley
Public Defender Meltdown in Louisiana
02 Mar 2016
by Bill Quigley Equal justice under the law is a mere abstraction, or a cruel joke, if you’re a captive of the State and don’t have a lawyer. Louisiana’s public defender offices are broke,…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 29, 2016
01 Mar 2016
Sanders, Trump Campaigns May Crash Both Parties “The Bernie Sanders movement might break out into a major conflict at the convention in Philadelphia if the Sanders people feel that they’re being…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Bogus Power of the Black Vote Within the Confines of the Democratic Party
24 Feb 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford "Black Power" has been turned on its head on the electoral front, put at the service of corporatists like Hillary Clinton. "Paralyzed by fear of the White Man's…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Obama Forever and Ever
24 Feb 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Margaret Kimberley Obama is supposed to be a lame duck, but we are seeing a resurgence of his propaganda juggernaut. With the help of phony revolutionary Russell Simmons…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
How the Corporate Media Uses Beyoncé to Co-opt the Black Radical Movement
24 Feb 2016
by Reggie E. and edited by Danny Haiphong "Beyoncé’s latest work has been described as 'subversive' and 'unapologetically Black,'"” when in reality it is 'both anti-black liberation and counter-…
Shea Howell
No More Poisoned Babies: People Power vs. Corporate Emergency Managers
24 Feb 2016
by Shea Howell The corporate privatizers played the anti-Black race card to justify shutting off water to tens of thousands of poor Detroiters. But they can't play that game in Flint, Michigan, where…