African America

Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 22, 2015
23 Jun 2015
Charleston Massacre: Vintage Americana Activist and writer Kevin Alexander Gray lives in Columbia, South Carolina, not far from the Charleston church shooter’s home town, where “a Confederate flag…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 15, 2015
16 Jun 2015
Broken Windows Policing Criminalizes Communities The Police Reform Organization Project, or PROP, has released a report on damage done to ordinary people by New York City’s “Broken Windows” policing…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 8, 2015
09 Jun 2015
Black Lives Matter Movement is Dominant Theme at Left Forum “The powerful movements that have raised the slogan ‘No Justice-No Peace’ in Ferguson, Baltimore and across the country have shaken…
Data Show Cops Growing More Aggressive Against Blacks In Missouri
03 Jun 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Missouri’s own statistics confirm “the general impression among Black people that the police are becoming measurably more aggressive in…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 1, 2015
02 Jun 2015
A Global System of Oppression Black Americans’ problems with the police are part of a global conflict, said Phillip Agnew, of the Dream Defenders, the youthful activist organization that emerged…
Obama Invokes U.S. Civil Rights Movement to Defend Israel
27 May 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford What should one expect when the First Black President of the world’s first apartheid state attempts to defend Israel, the planet’s last…
U.S. Voter Turnout is Low Because There’s Little to Vote For
25 Mar 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Voter suppression plays an important role in keeping Black turnout below that of whites, but does not explain why overall U.S. voter…
Seattle Urban League Leader to Run Against Socialist Seattle City Council Member. Why?
19 Mar 2015
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Bruce A. Dixon Like the NAACP, the NAN and other corporate funded dinosaur civil rights outfits, the National Urban League mostly says and does what its wealthy…
The Black Caucus “Left” Wing Crumbles Before Obama’s War Machine
24 Sep 2014
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford It took just three years for most Americans to conclude that George Bush’s war in Iraq should come to an end. But, after three years of failure in Syria,…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Blackwashing, the Reparations Brand, and a Last Refuge For Scoundrels
18 Jun 2014
No sensible person should doubt the fundamental justice of arguments for reparations for the historic crimes of slavery, Jim Crow, and today's prison state. Accomplishing reparations would require a…