African America

Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 21, 2015
22 Sep 2015
What Price Reparations? Based on calculations by University of Connecticut researcher Thomas Craemer, reparations to African Americans for slavery would cost between $5.9 trillionand $14.2…
Yale's Lucrative Wet Kiss Anoints #BlackLivesMatter's Deray McKesson Their Kind of “Transformational” Leader
16 Sep 2015
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Police “Training” is the Problem: They are Trained to Oppress Blacks
16 Sep 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Black people don’t need more “training” of the cops that patrol their communities. What’s needed is a new mission for the police – one that is radically different…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Whole Fools—White Foods?
16 Sep 2015
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 14, 2015
15 Sep 2015
Justice Department Blowing Smoke on Prosecuting Corporate Execs “There’s nothing new” in a U.S. Justice Department memo that claims it will bring more criminal prosecutions against corporate…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Why is Cornel West Sheep-Dogging for the Democrats – Once Again?
09 Sep 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Cornel West has thrown his support to Bernie Sanders, the nominal socialist – but unquestionable Democrat – running for president. Dr. West says Sanders “…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Black Lives Matter: A Call to Pan-African Unity – Justice for Emmanuel!
09 Sep 2015
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo A Nigerian mother started out at the bottom in the United States, raised and educated five children, and bought a spacious home in one of the…
The Real News Network
How One Chicago High School Became Ground Zero For School Privatization
09 Sep 2015
by the Real News Network
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Why George Jackson Matters Through the Lens of Blood in My Eye
09 Sep 2015
by Danny Haiphong George Jackson was a giant that U.S. State could not contain – so it killed him. “It was Jackson who developed a foundational theory of the prison state in relationship to the…
Henry Giroux
Dark Waters: Hurricane Katrina, the Politics of Disposability and the Racism of Malcolm Gladwell
09 Sep 2015
by Henry Giroux Ten years after the Katrina catastrophe pushed 100,000 Black people out of New Orleans, it has become acceptable in polite society to advocate involuntary dispersal of Black and poor…