US Politics

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Two Faces of the Black Church
10 Jun 2019
The Black Church spawned militant resistance to white supremacy as well as a politics of accommodation to white rule.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Gandhi’s Struggle Relevant to 21st Century Anti-Imperialism
10 Jun 2019
Following up a yearlong, citywide study of the works of WEB Dubois, the Philadelphia Saturday Free School kicks off “The Year of Gandhi,” June 14 and 15, at the Church of the Advocate.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Reparations Now Ripe for Full Congressional Debate
10 Jun 2019
The premier organization pushing for Black reparations holds its 30th annual convention, June 20 – 23, in Detroit. HR 40, the House Reparations Study bill, now has a companion measure in the U.S.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Lives Matter Founder Launches Huge Project to Shrink Black Lives
06 Jun 2019
Alicia Garza and her crew conducted what they claim is the biggest survey of Black political opinion ever -- but failed to ask a single question about foreign policy.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: How to Protest Trump
05 Jun 2019
If the British really oppose Trump’s policies they should dump their own government, which backs Washington to the hilt – and then they should apologize to the world for Britain’s crimes.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Elizabeth Warren Wants Green Bombs, not a Green New Deal
05 Jun 2019
Warren prides herself in fighting for a kinder capitalism but has no problem with a nasty, murderous imperialism.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Paul Kagame and His House Negro, Félix Tshisekedi
05 Jun 2019
The people of Congo will never forget that Paul Kagame brought death to more than 6 million of their mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters.
Elizabeth Hinton
How the ‘Central Park Five’ Changed the History of American Law
05 Jun 2019
Despite no DNA evidence, fingerprints, blood, or semen linking any of the black and brown boys to the crime, all five defendants grew up in prison.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
05 Jun 2019
This week you wanted to talk about Joe Biden’s presidential run, the National Lawyers Guild, Julian Assange, and Israeli apartheid. Strong comments came for “
Belen Fernandez
BAR Book Forum: An Excerpt from Belén Fernández’s “Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World”
05 Jun 2019
The US is a nation of freedom: the freedom to carry or be shot by a firearm, and to go into eternal debt.