African America

FBI Chief Gets the “Ferguson Effect” All Wrong
30 Oct 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Cops that think they’ve been abandoned by the Obama administration are out of their minds. “Obama is only seeking to put a smiling face…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 28, 2015
27 Oct 2015
Three Days of Protest Against Police Violence in New York City The Stop Mass Incarceration Network’s Rise Up October campaign brought thousands into the streets of New York for three days of actions…
Find Out What the “Or Else” Is: March with the Black Is Back Coalition in Washington, Nov. 7
21 Oct 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford If Black people are engaged in a renewed “movement,” what are the demands? The Black Is Back Coalition will bring the demand for Black…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 21, 2015
20 Oct 2015
Why Not Hundreds of Rise Up October Campaigns? When the Rise Up October campaign against police violence arrives in New York City for three days of demonstrations, this weekend, the People’s…
Confederate Flag Wavers Arrested Under Law Designed to Imprison Blacks
13 Oct 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford A Georgia prosecutor turned the state’s gang law on a group of Confederate flag-waving white supremacists – the first such use of the…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 12, 2015
13 Oct 2015
Atty. Gen. Lynch Backtracks on Killer Cop Stats Black activists are outraged at Attorney General Loretta Lynch for backing away from her predecessor’s verbal commitment to require local police…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 5, 2015
06 Oct 2015
Reps. John Lewis and Terri Sewell Scheme to Keep Racist’s Name on Selma Bridge State Sen. Hank Sanders and lots of other people in Selma, Alabama, want to name the Edmund Pettus Bridge for Amelia…
The Whites Are Coming! The Whites Are Coming!: Gentrification Surging in U.S. Cities
30 Sep 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford When Wall Street sets its collective minds and money to the task of gentrification, urban populations move – rapidly! In just the past…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 28, 2015
29 Sep 2015
Black Families and Women Bear Burden of Mass Incarceration A survey of 1,000 former prison inmates and their families by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, in Oakland, California, “showed that…
Black Families Crushed By Prison and Death
23 Sep 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Every socio-economic fact conspires against successful Black family life, beginning with the dwindling pool of available husbands and…