African America

Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 31, 2015
01 Sep 2015
Blacks Disenfranchised by School Takeovers “Black and brown communities are being stripped of democracy” by state takeovers of their school systems, said Keron Blair, executive director of the…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Organizing, Not Activism: Chicago's Dyett HS Hunger Strikers Mark 11th Day Resisting Closing & Privatization of Their School
28 Aug 2015
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Activism is showing up, speaking out, demonstrating here, tweeting there, disrupting that and blogging that. But activists are only responsible to themselves.…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Katrina: The Logic of Genocide
27 Aug 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The best thing that could happen to poor Black people is for a Katrina-like catastrophe to hit their city, scattering them to the four corners of the country. So…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Carl Dix: Revolutionary Communist – Fighting the Plague of Mass Incarceration
26 Aug 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Veteran activist Carl Dix discusses his early incarceration and how he became a revolutionary and a major figure in the fight against mass…
Concerning Reactionaries and Thugs: The New Black Panther Party
26 Aug 2015
by Elbert “Big Man” Howard The recent assault on former Black Panther and 19-year political prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad reveals, once again, that the so-called New Black Panther Party is a collection…
Paul Bermanzohn
Hiding in Plain Sight: The History of the War on Drugs
26 Aug 2015
by Paul Bermanzohn The War on Drugs was a direct response to the African American uprisings of the 1960s. Three hundred cities rose in Black rebellion. A a fervor for change spread across the land…
Brendan McQuade
Non-Profits and the Pacification of the Black Lives Matter Movement
26 Aug 2015
by Brendan McQuade It takes many actors to pacify a rebellion. Police repression is only one tool, and often counterproductive. In Chicago, the ACLU hijacked local legislation that would have…
Mark P. Fancher
Black Children’s Dreams Crushed on a Field of Nightmares
26 Aug 2015
by Mark P. Fancher Organized Little League baseball last year stripped Chicago’s champion Jackie Robinson West team of their World Series title. The injustice blends their anguished voices “with…
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Color Blind or Just Blind
26 Aug 2015
by Dr. T.P. Wilkinson Liberals, the Phony Left, and the supine Black Misleadership Class spread the false gospel that, as bad as things are, they are far better than they used to be. But what could…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 24, 2015
26 Aug 2015
Black U.S. Movers and Shakers in Solidarity with Palestine One thousand Black American activists, artists and academics have signed a petition backing the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (…