African America

Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 2, 2015
03 Nov 2015
Kick the Cops Out of Schools Parents and citizens outraged at the manhandling of a 16 year-old female high school student by a white policeman in Richland County, South Carolina, are pressing for…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Garza vs. McKesson: The Great Debate Over How the Democratic Party Will Liberate Black People
30 Oct 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford One side wants the Democrats to sponsor a town hall meeting on racial justice, the other prefers that the Party hold a Black issues oriented debate. Both #…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: White Settler Gentrification
30 Oct 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Black urbanites are under siege “because the dictates of capitalism and racism demand that white people return to the cities they fled.”…
FBI Chief Gets the “Ferguson Effect” All Wrong
30 Oct 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Cops that think they’ve been abandoned by the Obama administration are out of their minds. “Obama is only seeking to put a smiling face…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 28, 2015
27 Oct 2015
Three Days of Protest Against Police Violence in New York City The Stop Mass Incarceration Network’s Rise Up October campaign brought thousands into the streets of New York for three days of actions…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Blacks Will Transform America, and Free Themselves, But Not at the Ballot Box in 2016
22 Oct 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford It is paradoxical that African Americans, who politically most resemble the Scandinavian social democrats Bernie Sanders claims to admire, are not supporting Sanders…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
TFA/BlackLivesMatter/CampaignZero Activist Brittney Packnett (Almost) Tries to Defend the Indefensible
22 Oct 2015
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Stung by growing public recognition of Teach For America's heinous role in destabilizing communites and destroying public education, CampaignZero/…
Find Out What the “Or Else” Is: March with the Black Is Back Coalition in Washington, Nov. 7
21 Oct 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford If Black people are engaged in a renewed “movement,” what are the demands? The Black Is Back Coalition will bring the demand for Black…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Reckless Eyeballing in the Former Chocolate City and Rise Up October in New York
21 Oct 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Until this decade, Washington, DC was the quintessential “Chocolate City,” where Blackness was normal and white folks acclimated themselves to…
Abayomi Azikiwe
Militarization of U.S. Police is a Reflection of United States Foreign Policy
21 Oct 2015
by Abayomi Azikiwe “The militarization of U.S. society is as old as the American system itself,” but the policy kicked into a high gear in the mid to late Sixties, to crush Black urban revolt. In…