African America

Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Mass Protests Trigger On-Going Investigations of Police Homicides
10 Jun 2015
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The Washington Post’s effort to tabulate police killings of civilians has discovered that, “among the unarmed victims of police homicides,…
Ajamu Nangwaya
“Am I free to go?”: The Refuseniks’ Campaign to Resist Police Street Harassment
10 Jun 2015
by Ajamu Nangwaya “Carding,” Toronto’s version of stop-and-frisk, is opposed by a huge and growing proportion of the city’s population, as well as influential actors among the corporate elite. Yet,…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 8, 2015
09 Jun 2015
Black Lives Matter Movement is Dominant Theme at Left Forum “The powerful movements that have raised the slogan ‘No Justice-No Peace’ in Ferguson, Baltimore and across the country have shaken…
Data Show Cops Growing More Aggressive Against Blacks In Missouri
03 Jun 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Missouri’s own statistics confirm “the general impression among Black people that the police are becoming measurably more aggressive in…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Mass Protests Trigger Washington Post Study of Police Killings
03 Jun 2015
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The federal government has never gathered meaningful statistics on police killings of civilians. Now the Washington Post has begun an ongoing…
Dianne Feeley
A Hurricane without Water: Detroit’s Foreclosure Disaster
03 Jun 2015
by Dianne Feeley Public policy in Detroit, the nation’s largest majority Black city, seems structured to create blight and force the current population out of their homes. Sixty-two thousand…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
May 19th Versus Memorial Day in the Battle of Ideas
03 Jun 2015
by Danny Haiphong Rather than memorialize U.S. imperial wars, we should mark the birthdays and legacies of Malcolm X, who “strongly condemned US imperialism's invasion of Vietnam,” Yuri Kochiyama,…
Bill Quigley
40 Reasons Our Jails and Prisons Are Full of Black and Poor People
03 Jun 2015
by Bill Quigley There are many paths to prison in the United States, the undisputed world leader in incarceration. The process begins with hyper-surveillance that can last a lifetime. “Not…
I'm a Black Ex-Cop, and This is the Real Truth About Race and Policing
03 Jun 2015
by Reddit Hudson Black cops are keenly aware that racism permeates policing in the United States. “The reality of police abuse is not limited to a number of ‘very small incidents’ that have…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 1, 2015
02 Jun 2015
A Global System of Oppression Black Americans’ problems with the police are part of a global conflict, said Phillip Agnew, of the Dream Defenders, the youthful activist organization that emerged…