African America

Just What We Need: More Black Celebrity Charter School Crooks... I Mean 'Entrepreneurs'
31 Mar 2016
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Sean “Diddy” Combs, with accomplices Iyanla Vanzant and privatization hustler Steve Perry are fronting the Capital Prepatory…
Black Brooklyn DA’s Leniency for Killer Cop Shows the “Whole System is Guilty as Hell”
30 Mar 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Black faces in high prosecutorial places do not equal criminal justice reform. The first Black district attorney for Brooklyn, New York,…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 28, 2016
29 Mar 2016
Colonial Chickens Come Home to Roost in the West In the wake of the Brussels bombing, we hear variations of the same old theme: “They [Muslims] hate us [the ‘West’] because of our freedoms.” However…
Raul Castro Should Ask Obama: What About U.S. Political Prisoners?
23 Mar 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The man who presides over the largest prison population in the world, a system that is still holding political dissidents captured a half…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 21, 2016
22 Mar 2016
Black Power Matters in 2016 “Fear of fascism being ‘right around the corner’ – this time in the form of Donald Trump – always means a vote for some kind of Democrat, as opposed to building our own…
Black Is Back Coalition Holds National Conference on Self-Determination and 2016 Elections
16 Mar 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Election seasons are consumed by talk of which candidates and parties are “winning.” But, Black people never win, even if one of them is…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 14, 2016
15 Mar 2016
“Billionaires” Fund Defamation of Public Schools, Teachers A poll commissioned by In The Public Interest shows Americans still hold public schools and teachers in high regard, want charter schools to…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 7, 2016
08 Mar 2016
New FBI Guidelines for Targeting Classroom “Radicals” The nation’s teachers will soon be getting revised FBI guidelines on how to spot “radicalized” students. “The modern FBI ‘counter-violence and…
High Corporate Crimes In Michigan Must be Terminated with Extreme Prejudice
02 Mar 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford “Under corporate rule, high finance is the motive for the highest of crimes, while the exercise of free speech and assembly and other…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 29, 2016
01 Mar 2016
Sanders, Trump Campaigns May Crash Both Parties “The Bernie Sanders movement might break out into a major conflict at the convention in Philadelphia if the Sanders people feel that they’re being…