US Politics

Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 22, 2016
23 Feb 2016
When Paul Robeson Denounced a President to His Face Dr. Gerald Horne, the prolific professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Houston, has turned out another book. Paul…
Atlantic City Residents to Lose Their Water – and What’s Left of Their Right to Vote
20 Jan 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christy “must have reasoned that nobody important would stand in the way of whatever he wanted to do to…
Dyson's “Yes She Can” Is Another Lazy, Shameless Official Spokesnegro Audition Tape
10 Dec 2015
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Bruce A. Dixon You'd think a “Yes She Can” piece about Hillary Clinton from a supposed black “public intellectual” would explain what and how she might do and why…
Youth Leads the Struggle in Chicago
02 Dec 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The supremely arrogant Mayor “Rahmbo” Emanuel has been temporarily chastened by the drumbeat of protests against the killing of Laquan…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 14, 2015
15 Sep 2015
Justice Department Blowing Smoke on Prosecuting Corporate Execs “There’s nothing new” in a U.S. Justice Department memo that claims it will bring more criminal prosecutions against corporate…
Pretty Words, Ugly Actions: The Obama Legacy on Climate Change
05 Aug 2015
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Apart from the times he called himself the president of “clean coal”, President Obama always talked a better climate change game than his Republican…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of Aug 3, 2015
04 Aug 2015
Predator Cops Fill Graveyards U.S. police killed 412 people in 1976, 333 in 1984, and 385 in 1990, wrote Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, in an essay now republished for…
NetRoots Nation Confrontation Wasn't About #BlackLivesMatter At All
24 Jul 2015
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon NetRootsNation is a gathering for paid and wannabe paid Democratic party activists, including the ostensibly non-partisan ones.…
Why Bill Clinton's Apology and Barack Obama's Prison Drive-By, Token Clemencies Are Cynical Election Year Posturing
17 Jul 2015
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Six and a half years into his presidency, Barack Obama has discovered black mass incarceration. He's shocked, visits a federal…
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…