African America

Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 5, 2015
06 Oct 2015
Reps. John Lewis and Terri Sewell Scheme to Keep Racist’s Name on Selma Bridge State Sen. Hank Sanders and lots of other people in Selma, Alabama, want to name the Edmund Pettus Bridge for Amelia…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Why I Ain't Getting on the Bus for the MMM This Or Any Other Year
01 Oct 2015
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Getting on the bus to DC this October 10? BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon wishes you safe travels, but he ain't coming. “Justice or Else” is a meaningless slogan…
The Whites Are Coming! The Whites Are Coming!: Gentrification Surging in U.S. Cities
30 Sep 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford When Wall Street sets its collective minds and money to the task of gentrification, urban populations move – rapidly! In just the past…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 28, 2015
29 Sep 2015
Black Families and Women Bear Burden of Mass Incarceration A survey of 1,000 former prison inmates and their families by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, in Oakland, California, “showed that…
Glen Ford with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor
CBC Monitor Report Card Ranks Terri Sewell Worst Black Member of Congress
24 Sep 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford, with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor Black Agenda Report is once again publishing the annual CBC Monitor Report Card. The former all-time worst Black Congressman,…
Glen Ford with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor
Congressional Black Caucus Report Card for 2015, the 114th Congress
24 Sep 2015
by Glen Ford with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor It's been several years since the Black Agenda Report team issued what used to be our annual report card on the Congressional Black Caucus, the cream…
Black Families Crushed By Prison and Death
23 Sep 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Every socio-economic fact conspires against successful Black family life, beginning with the dwindling pool of available husbands and…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
a place…
23 Sep 2015
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner I know a place where there’s more law in muzzles of Glocks and Tasers than in Supreme Court decisions; a place where gunmen, triggermen turn traffic…
Pascal Robert
Black Eugenics: How the Black Mis-leadership Class of the Early 20th Century Supported Sterilization of the Black Poor
23 Sep 2015
by Pascal Robert Throughout African American history, members of the Black elite have blamed the Black poor for “bringing down the race,” thus giving aid and comfort to white racists. “Calls by Negro…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
In Defense of the Panthers: Why the Film "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" Should be Put Down, and the Book "Black Against Empire" Picked Up
23 Sep 2015
by Danny Haiphong The author endorses former Panther leader Elaine Brown’s critique of the movie, However, Blacks Against Empire, the acclaimed book on the Party, meets his approval as “actual…