US Politics

Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Happy Birthday, Jericho Movement!
13 Mar 2018
The organization created by and for US political prisoners -- most of them Black Panthers, some incarcerated for nearly 50 years -- marks its 20th anniversary, March 24.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Ethnic Cleansing is Still U.S. Policy
13 Mar 2018
“The Black Misleadership Class” acts as “agents and collaborators” in the planned shrinkage of Black and brown populations, said veteran tenants organizer and Black Agenda Radio host Nellie
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Chains That Bound Blacks and Indigenous Americans
13 Mar 2018
Blacks and Native Americans share a history of enslavement at the hands of European settlers, said Dr Gerald Horne, professor of history and African American studies at the Un
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
PROP Calls for Free Mass Transit for NYC Poor
06 Mar 2018
“Our position is that the city should provide free fares to low income people,” said Robert Gangi, of the Police Reform Organizing Project, who notes that 85 to 90 percent of the 2
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Beware the Dangers of Reformism
05 Mar 2018
Reformers often wind up legitimizing and strengthening police power, said Dylan Rodriguez, professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Holding the Line Against Neoliberalism in Jackson MS
05 Mar 2018
Cooperation Jackson activist Kali Akuno said the grassroots movement can count on broad aspects of unity with the overwhelmingly Black capital city’s political class.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Sundiata Acoli’s “Affirmation”
27 Feb 2018
Political prisoner Sundiata Acoli, who was arrested with fellow Black Panther Assata Shakur in 1973, is among a host of political prisoners and activists that took part in a readin
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Dollar to Get Knocked Off Its Pedestal
27 Feb 2018
Duboisian scholar and activist Dr Anthony Monteiro said the Chinese yuan will topple the dollar from its artificial position as the world’s reserve currency.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Dubois: Activist and Educator
27 Feb 2018
Philadelphia’s Saturday Free School kicked off a year of activities celebrating WEB Dubois’ life and work with a symposium at the Church of the Advocate.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Year of W.E.B. Dubois
27 Feb 2018
Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political