US Politics

Black Agenda Report for Week of August 15, 2016
16 Aug 2016
Greens are Alternative to “Democratic Plantation” Ajamu Baraka, the veteran Black activist tapped as Jill Stein’s presidential running mate, said the Green Party can make a difference, this year, by…
Black Agenda Report for Week of August 8, 2016
08 Aug 2016
Voters Have Choices Outside the Duopoly Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are both “evil” people, but U.S. voters do have choices this election season, said South Carolina activist and author Kevin…
To Serve Clinton, Ben Jealous Slimes Jill Stein
27 Jul 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Former NAACP chief Ben Jealous couldn’t wait to get back in the good graces of Democratic Party corporate power. Released from…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 25, 2016
25 Jul 2016
Activists Take the Fight to Cops’ “Doorsteps” The Fraternal Order of Police is “the most dangerous fraternity in all of America,” said Samantha Masters, spokesperson for the Black Youth Project 100…
Blowback: Does the US Military Incubate Brutal, Abusive Cops Along With Their Deranged, Disconnected Shooters?
21 Jul 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Malicious authoritarians in both parties peddle fantasies connecting Black Lives Matter and the broad movement of millions…
Hillary and Bill Clinton: Specialists in Black Misery, Foreign and Domestic
20 Jul 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford In the 1990s the Clinton Power Couple destroyed welfare as we knew it and threw millions of poor people to the wolves, while imprisoning…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 18, 2016
19 Jul 2016
A “New Moment” in Black Struggle The Black struggle in the U.S. is “approaching a new moment” when the country might “become ungovernable by the political class that is tried to Wall Street and the 1…
Bernie Sanders Endorses the World’s Greatest (Presumptive) Evil
13 Jul 2016
Bernie Sanders ran an extraordinary race, making lots of noise and causing great consternation, but never daring to leave the corporate duopoly. Now his job is to deliver the bulk of his sheep into…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 4, 2016
05 Jul 2016
Philadelphia Anti-Police Terror Activists Gear Up to Shut Dems Down The city fathers in Philadelphia have sanctioned Democrat-friendly demonstrations during the party’s national convention, later…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 20, 2016
21 Jun 2016
POP Blasts Cuomo’s Blacklist of BDS Campaign as “Outright Reactionary” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive order establishing a blacklist of companies and institutions that honor the campaign to…