African America

Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 17, 2015
18 Aug 2015
Black People Should ‘Police’ Themselves The Milwaukee chapter of BND, the Black National Defenders, hold rallies every Saturday and knock on doors in neighborhoods to engage young people in political…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 10, 2015
11 Aug 2015
One-Fifth of Pennsylvania Prisoners, Including Mumia, Need Hep C Treatment Lawyers for Mumia Abu Jamal have filed suit against the State of Pennsylvania for refusing to treat the nation’s best known…
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.…
Obama’s Takes His Prison Reform Con Game on the Road
22 Jul 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Never has a president been so highly praised for fraudulent efforts and fictitious accomplishments than Barack Obama, who now pretends –…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 20, 2015
21 Jul 2015
Mumia “May Have Been Poisoned” Six months after Mumia Abu Jamal nearly died from diabetic shock, the nation’s best known political prisoner’s underlying illness has yet to be diagnosed, said Dr.…
Obama’s Legacy: Black Child Poverty at Record High
15 Jul 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The consequences of the Great Recession “and the Obama administration’s response to it” have fallen most heavily on Black children,…
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…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 6, 2015
07 Jul 2015
Shut Down the Prisons from the Inside Prison inmates with the Free Alabama Movement have been placed in solitary confinement for advocating a national prison work strike. “Their argument is that all…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 29, 2015
30 Jun 2015
Don’t Just Count Black Bodies – We Need a Program of Liberation Veteran Malcolm X Grassroots Movement activist Kali Akuno is a co-author of the 2012 report Operation Ghetto Storm, which documented…