African America

Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Return of the “Happy” Slave
20 Jan 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley How does a writer make slavery a light and breezy read for children? By presenting a story that’s comforting to white bosses at corporate…
Frank X Murphy
Flint River Poison and Governor Snyder’s New Clothes
20 Jan 2016
by Frank X Murphy The whole world knows that Flint River water stinks and is full of lead. But, it is “the smell of Gov. Rick Snyder’s unprecedented, radically anti-democratic and cunningly racist ‘…
Kali Akuno
An Unbroken Line: New Afrikan Resistance from 1619 to the Present
20 Jan 2016
by Kali Akuno The current upsurge in Black “movement”-type politics has been in the making for a decade. Katrina “reawakened the Black radical imagination” in 2005. Like a wave, the momentum built…
Bryan K. Bullock
MLK and the Black Misleaders
20 Jan 2016
by Bryan K. Bullock The current crop of Black “leaders” ceremonially endorse Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and works – but he would not vouch for theirs. “They betray King’s legacy in their explicit…
Kali Holloway
The Massive Discrepancies Between Media Coverage of Mythical Crack Babies and Opiate-Dependent Babies
20 Jan 2016
by Kali Holloway Three decades ago, hysteria about “crack-babies” helped launch another wave of racial vilification and oppression. Today, most new drug addicts are white, and “we have not…
Moving Left, Back to the Radical Root
13 Jan 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The Black Radical Tradition must still be alive and kicking, having drawn hundreds of activists and scholars to a conference, this…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Using Lebron James and the Oregon Occupation to Understand White Supremacy
13 Jan 2016
by Danny Haiphong Super-rich Black athlete Lebron James “chose to protect both his privileges and those of his bosses by refraining to comment on the blatant injustice of the Tamir…
Cecelia Reyes ProPublica and Jenny Ye
100,000 NYC School Children Face Airport-Style Security Screening Every Day
13 Jan 2016
by Cecelia Reyes, ProPublica, and Jenny Ye, WNYC Every day, more New York City public school kids pass through metal detectors and undergo head-to-toe pat-downs than the traffic through Miami…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 11, 2016
12 Jan 2016
Philadelphia Conference Reasserts Black Radical Tradition Hundreds of activists, academics and organizers from around the country descended on Temple University, in Philadelphia, January 8-10, for a…
Why the Feds Punk Out When Confronting White Rightwing Insurgents
07 Jan 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford