US Politics

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Hip Hop Forges Black and Native American Solidarity
13 Nov 2018
Kyle Mays, who teaches at the African American Studies Department and the Native American Center at UCLA, says Hip Hop “builds solidarity between the two communities,” which share
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Police Reform Doesn’t Work, Says Sociologist
13 Nov 2018
“Show me the American city where Black and brown folks are happy with the policing that emerges from” the usual menu of police re-training, body cameras and increased minority hiring.
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Ajamu Baraka on Redacted Tonight
09 Nov 2018
A peace movement cannot be built on a war party, and too many of our so-called US social justice organizations are wholly dependent on corporate philanthropy tied hand and foot to Democrats, who ar
Chris Hedges
Glen Ford on Chris Hedges On Contact: The Con of Diversity
09 Nov 2018
Diversity is little more than black faces in high places, not the goal of radical transformation that puts power in the hands of ordinary people.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Was This Really The Most Important Mid-Term Election of Our Lives? Maybe Not.
09 Nov 2018
For an occasion so momentous, not much has changed.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
White Supremacists Wage Race War
06 Nov 2018
The armed White Power movement has shifted, since the Vietnam War era, from “earlier incarnations of the Ku Klux Klan to a much more coordinated war against the federal government” and Black and Je
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Solitary Confinement As a Tool of Political Oppression
06 Nov 2018
Since at least the 1950s, prison officials have used solitary confinement as a political tool against Black inmates, said Brittany Friedman, a professor of sociology at Rutgers Uni
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Real Prison Reform Requires Constitutional Revision
06 Nov 2018
Eliminating the portion of the 13thAmendment to the US Constitution that allow enslavement of prisoners is central to prison reform, said prison abolitionist and spoken word artist Max Part
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
How Thirsty and Stupid Do Stacey Abrams, Lucy McBath, and Most Progressive Democrat Congressional Candidates Think We Are?
01 Nov 2018
How Stupid Do Stacey Abrams and Lucy McBath Think We Are?
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Haiti Regime Versus The People
29 Oct 2018
The people of Haiti don’t believe a word President Jovenel Moise has to say, said Dahoud Andre, spokesman for the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti.