US Politics

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Caucus Punks on Israel Every Time
10 Apr 2018
Israeli Army sniper fire killed 17 Palestinians and wounded as many as a 1,000, but such massacres do not seem to bother the Congressional Black Caucus, said BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia Bids Goodbye to Winnie
10 Apr 2018
US political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal remembers the life of Winifred "Winnie" Madizikela-Mandela,, South African freedom fighter, politician and the ex-wife of Nelson Mandela. Winnie Madikizel
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Let Herman Bell’s Parole Stand!
10 Apr 2018
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo have been pressuring the state parole board to reverse its pending releas
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Cops Can Be Convicted of Murder, If Prosecutors Follow the Law
10 Apr 2018
Stephanie Morales, Portsmouth, Virginia’s 34 year-old top prosecutor, succeeded in sending a cop to prison for two and a half years for shooting an unarmed suspected Black shoplift
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Missouri Senate Candidate Endorses 19-Point Self-Determination Agenda
10 Apr 2018
“I’m running against 20 rich white folks,” veteran activist Coffee Wright told the crowd at the Black Is Back Coalition’s national Electoral School, in St. Louis, Missouri.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Every Murdered Black Person Deserves Protest
10 Apr 2018
“We should hear about these killings every day, because they happen every day,” said Margaret Kimberley, editor and senior colu
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Movement Most in Need of “Political Education”
02 Apr 2018
“We still have too many Black people not being real about our current state of affairs,” said Shannon Jones, of Bronxites for NYPD Accountability, following protests in Manhattan a
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A Setback for Cop-Control in Newark
02 Apr 2018
If a New Jersey court decision diluting the powers of the local Civilian Complaint Review Board is allowed to stand, the Newark-based People’s Organization for Progress may be compelled to give up
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Bolton is Just One Face of U.S. Imperial Crisis
02 Apr 2018
The US imperial system is beset by “crises at every level,” said Sara Flounders, of the United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC).
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Theft is Part of U.S. DNA
27 Mar 2018
You can’t understand the present-day United States if you don’t know its bloody history, said Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous People’s History of the United State