African America

Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 4, 2016
05 Jan 2016
Building a Black “Movement” from the Current “Momentum” Dr. Cornel West, the nation’s best known Black public intellectual and a keynote speaker at this weekend’s conference on the Black Radical…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 28, 2015
29 Dec 2015
Ideology and Practice for the New Movement The Black Radical Tradition is alive and kicking in the 21st century, said Dr. Anthony Monteiro, an organizer and keynote speaker for a conference titled “…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 21, 2015
21 Dec 2015
Michigan Water Crisis Rooted in Crisis of Democracy In majority Black Flint, Michigan, the mayor has declared a state of emergency due to unsafe water, while in mostly Black Detroit tens of thousands…
Dyson's “Yes She Can” Is Another Lazy, Shameless Official Spokesnegro Audition Tape
10 Dec 2015
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Bruce A. Dixon You'd think a “Yes She Can” piece about Hillary Clinton from a supposed black “public intellectual” would explain what and how she might do and why…
Youth Leads the Struggle in Chicago
02 Dec 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The supremely arrogant Mayor “Rahmbo” Emanuel has been temporarily chastened by the drumbeat of protests against the killing of Laquan…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 30, 2015
01 Dec 2015
Two Rights Groups Refuse to Sign Off on Sentencing “Reform” Bill Legislation is moving through the U.S. House and Senate that would retroactively shorten sentences for crack cocaine possession and,…
Baltimore Study Sheds Light on Bankers’ Scheme To Expel Blacks from the City
18 Nov 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Banks in Baltimore “have condemned the Black sections of town to a death spiral of social and physical deterioration” as a matter of…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 9, 2015
10 Nov 2015
A Movement in Need of Vision and Ideology Hundreds of activists will converge on Philadelphia’s Temple University, January 8-10, under the banner “Reclaiming Our Future: The Black Radical Tradition…
The Middle Age White Male Die-Off: When Skin Privilege is Not Enough
04 Nov 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford What happens to middle aged white men with only a high school education when white skin privilege is no longer enough to secure a…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 2, 2015
03 Nov 2015
Kick the Cops Out of Schools Parents and citizens outraged at the manhandling of a 16 year-old female high school student by a white policeman in Richland County, South Carolina, are pressing for…