African America

Paul Street
False Flag Change: History, the Confederate Flag, Obama and the Deeper American Racism
15 Jul 2015
by Paul Street The Confederate flag comes down at the capital of South Carolina, and smug white smiles go up all over America. “Meanwhile,” writes the author, “savage racial disparities persist and…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 13, 2015
14 Jul 2015
Austerity Rendering Detroit Unfit for Habitation A serious fire raged out control due to chronic low water pressure in Detroit, despite the majority Black city’s location in one of the world’s major…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Self Determination Matters
09 Jul 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford After two generations of political decay, Black people finally realize they “need to find ways to protect themselves from the police agencies of the Mass Black…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Liberalism Still the Left Flank of Oppression in the Coming Post-Obama World
08 Jul 2015
by Danny Haiphong It is already clear that the buzz words gay rights and the Confederate flag “will be used by the powerful to move as many disaffected people toward the Democratic Party as possible…
Benjamin Woods
Six Lessons #BlackLivesMatter Can Learn From Amilcar Cabral
08 Jul 2015
by Benjamin Woods The emergent Black Lives Matter mobilization is nearing the juncture where it will grow into a true mass movement for liberation, or take some other fork in the road.…
Mark P. Fancher
Dr. Che Guevara’s Prescription for Africa’s AFRICOM Headache
08 Jul 2015
by Mark P. Fancher With the United States military command in the lead, “western troops and advisors continue their forward march across African.” But continental liberation is still possible: it…
Filmon Zerai
An Eritrean in Mississippi: The Importance of Black Diaspora-Eritrea Solidarity
08 Jul 2015
The work of a Black lawyer named Lumumba from Detroit drew a young man from Eritrea to Jackson, Mississippi, last year.
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 6, 2015
07 Jul 2015
Shut Down the Prisons from the Inside Prison inmates with the Free Alabama Movement have been placed in solitary confinement for advocating a national prison work strike. “Their argument is that all…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Gay Still Isn’t the New Black
01 Jul 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If “gay is the new Black,” then it would follow that gays would now be dedicating their collective lives to the struggle against mass Black…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
No ‘Je Suis Charleston’?: The De-Politicization of Black Oppression
01 Jul 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Where was the worldwide revulsion at the racist terror attack in Charleston? “Obama sang ‘Amazing Grace’ and lulled into a stupefying silence black voices…