African America

Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Why African Americans Should Stand with Muslims and Arabs
16 Dec 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The methods of repression that are now directed against Muslims and Arabs in the United States were developed to oppress Black Americans and will return…
Solomon Comissiong
The Dangerous Game of Identity Politics: How the Black Community Continues to Vote Against Their Interests
16 Dec 2015
by Solomon Comissiong
Dyson's “Yes She Can” Is Another Lazy, Shameless Official Spokesnegro Audition Tape
10 Dec 2015
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Bruce A. Dixon You'd think a “Yes She Can” piece about Hillary Clinton from a supposed black “public intellectual” would explain what and how she might do and why…
Youth Leads the Struggle in Chicago
02 Dec 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The supremely arrogant Mayor “Rahmbo” Emanuel has been temporarily chastened by the drumbeat of protests against the killing of Laquan…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Killer White Men and the People Who Love Them
01 Dec 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Reflections on Multiracial Identity on Another Thanksgiving Passed
01 Dec 2015
by Danny Haiphong The U.S. imperial domain floats on raw force and fairy tales. One myth “paints the U.S. as a safe haven for people of different backgrounds instead of the genocidal…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 30, 2015
01 Dec 2015
Two Rights Groups Refuse to Sign Off on Sentencing “Reform” Bill Legislation is moving through the U.S. House and Senate that would retroactively shorten sentences for crack cocaine possession and,…
Suzanne Ross
To Protect and Serve Who? Mumia’s New Pamphlet on Organizing to Abolish Police Violence
24 Nov 2015
by Suzanne Ross The nation’s best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal, has weighed in on the debate over how to control the police. The former Black Panther “uses the Marxist analysis of the…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
“Black Lives Matter” Groups Hoping for a Big Payday
19 Nov 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford This week, the billionaires that fund the Democratic Party and its satellite organizations will decide which of the “Black Lives Matter” groups will get paid to lead…
Baltimore Study Sheds Light on Bankers’ Scheme To Expel Blacks from the City
18 Nov 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Banks in Baltimore “have condemned the Black sections of town to a death spiral of social and physical deterioration” as a matter of…