African America

Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Following the Underground Railroad: A Black Man Seeks Asylum in Canada
18 Nov 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Ever since the founding of the United States, many Black people have clung tightly to their claim to citizenship in the racist Republic. However…
Marilyn Kai Jewett
The People Demand Treatment for Mumia and 10,000 PA Inmates Suffering from Hepatitis C
18 Nov 2015
by Marilyn Kai Jewett Legions of labor leaders, elected officials and health professionals demand that Pennsylvania prison officials immediately begin treating Mumia Abu Jamal and approximately 10,…
Julian Cola
Rewind: Is Jazz America’s Greatest Artform?
18 Nov 2015
by Julian Cola The United States is expert at expropriating other people’s property: land, bodies and culture. It has expropriated jazz, alienating the art form from the people that created it, who…
Solomon Comissiong
Black Mis-Leadership Vs. African Revolutionaries: White Supremacy Elevates One, While Trying to Suppress the Other
18 Nov 2015
by Solomon Comissiong Black politicians (who are almost all Democrats) have no principles, no ambitions other than to “build their shacks of power within the Democratic Party’s political plantation…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
This Ain’t Your Grandfather’s Civil Rights Movement
12 Nov 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Shaun King and others like to compare today’s incipient movement to the civil rights era. But that’s a mistake. Today’s youth confront “a profoundly post-civil…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Corporate Media is Never Your Friend
11 Nov 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford After bringing the University of Missouri to its knees, Black students wanted some privacy in a “black space,” away from the peering eyes and suspect motives of the…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Self Determination: What It Is, What It Isn't
11 Nov 2015
by Danny Haiphong Malcolm X’s call for Black self-determination remains widely misunderstood in the United States, including among Black activists. Some even hold that Barack Obama’s election was an…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 9, 2015
10 Nov 2015
A Movement in Need of Vision and Ideology Hundreds of activists will converge on Philadelphia’s Temple University, January 8-10, under the banner “Reclaiming Our Future: The Black Radical Tradition…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Demand Nothing, Get Nothing: The Movement Needs to Say What It Wants
05 Nov 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The movement that emerged in Ferguson must define itself through the demands it makes of Power – “a truth that appears to have been widely forgotten in the…
The Middle Age White Male Die-Off: When Skin Privilege is Not Enough
04 Nov 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford What happens to middle aged white men with only a high school education when white skin privilege is no longer enough to secure a…