US Politics

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
You Can’t Shame the Shameless Black Misleadership Class
27 Jul 2022
The Black misleaders have been busy selling out Black people for half a century, but are still only barely tolerated by the rich man’s Democratic Party and its racist figurehead, Joe Biden.
Danny Haiphong and Margaret Kimberley
The Left Lens: Jayland Walker and COINTELPRO's Ongoing Legacy
15 Jul 2022
Danny Haiphong and Margaret Kimberley discuss recent BAR articles, Protesting for Jayland Walker and
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
FBI Still Targets Black People for Entrapment
13 Jul 2022
The COINTELPRO era never ended, as Black people bear the brunt of FBI surveillance. The war on terror gave a new rationale for using paid informants to entrap Black people. Romeo Langhorne is the…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL: Down with the Bestial Atrocities Against Blacks in Buffalo, New York! 1980
13 Jul 2022
As a 1980 editorial in the Buffalo Worker’s Voice recounts, the recent whitesupremacist violence in Buffalo has a long history. This history should not be forgotten.
The Mapping Project
Prison in Plain Sight: Visualizing the Economic Veins That Fuel Our Carceral Reality
13 Jul 2022
The prison system links corporate interests, the military industrial complex, and policing into a web of oppression impacting more than 2 million people in this country. The Mapping Project reports…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Drunken Count Ghouliani took the fifth the 6th—low Barr last days of Pompeo… (For Amiri)
13 Jul 2022
Drunken Count Ghouliani took the fifth the 6th—low Barr last days of Pompeo… (For Amiri)
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Black Agenda Radio July 8, 2022
08 Jul 2022
U.S. involvement in Cuban protests on July 11, 2021, Black community in Atlantic City, NJ fights for justice, and Democrats' political pressure and voter intimidation remove Green Party from North…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Atlantic City's Black Community Fights for Justice
08 Jul 2022
On July 4, 2020, seven Black men were arrested while protesting the police killing of George Floyd. But Atlantic City’s black community also suffers from ineffective political leadership, corporate…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Democrats Remove Green Party from North Carolina Ballot
08 Jul 2022
The Democratic Party succeeded in using voter intimidation and political pressure to remove the Green Party from ballot access in North Carolina. Tony Ndege is an organizer and co-Chair of the North…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Slaveholders Who Signed the Declaration of Independence: Washington, Jefferson, and the People they Owned
06 Jul 2022
Black Agenda Report editors Margaret Kimberley and Ann Garrison discuss the personal and institutional hypocrisy which allowed those who said, "All men are created to equal," to be slaveholders.