African America

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
A Minimal Demand: Roll Back Incarceration to 1970 Levels
07 Jan 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Prison populations have increased more than seven-fold since 1970, when the mass Black incarceration regime was set in motion. If incarceration was rolled back to…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Black Community Control of the Police and the Politicians
06 Jan 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Like macabre clockwork, prosecutors and their grand juries refuse to indict killer cops – most recently in the case of Tamir Rice. The Black…
R.L. Stephens II
The Hidden Colors of Frances Cress Welsing’s Historical Legacy
06 Jan 2016
by R.L. Stephens II Many are mourning the passing of Dr. Frances Welsing, whose melanin-based genetic pseudo-science found an eager audience among several generations of Black Americans. Her theory…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 4, 2016
05 Jan 2016
Building a Black “Movement” from the Current “Momentum” Dr. Cornel West, the nation’s best known Black public intellectual and a keynote speaker at this weekend’s conference on the Black Radical…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 28, 2015
29 Dec 2015
Ideology and Practice for the New Movement The Black Radical Tradition is alive and kicking in the 21st century, said Dr. Anthony Monteiro, an organizer and keynote speaker for a conference titled “…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: San Bernardino and Government Terror
23 Dec 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The official version of events lacks credibility in most cases of domestic “terrorism,” and the San Bernardino shooting is no exception. “Several…
Paul Street
A Sacrificial Rahm? Mayor 1%, Racist Policing, and Metropolitan Disorder
22 Dec 2015
by Paul Street Black Chicago is fired up – which means that Corporate Chicago may be in a mood to fire Mayor Rahm Emanuel, whom they trusted to “keep ghetto residents pacified.” Protesters ruined…
Geraldine Matthews
Political Prisoner Rev. Edward Pinkney Marks Year Behind Bars
21 Dec 2015
by Geraldine Matthews The United States has many political prisoners. Rev. Edward Pinkney, railroaded for trying to empower the mostly Black population of Benton Harbor, Michigan, “stands as the…
Jeffrey B. Perry
Hubert H. Harrison’s When Africa Awakes: The “Inside Story” of the Stirrings and Strivings of the New Negro in the Western World
21 Dec 2015
by Jeffrey B. Perry The works of the finest mind in early 20th century Harlem, a man who was more class-conscious than Marcus Garvey and more race-conscious than A. Philip Randolph, are now available…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 21, 2015
21 Dec 2015
Michigan Water Crisis Rooted in Crisis of Democracy In majority Black Flint, Michigan, the mayor has declared a state of emergency due to unsafe water, while in mostly Black Detroit tens of thousands…