Black Misleadership Class

Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Michael Jordan’s “Last Dance:” A Celebration of the American Nightmare
27 May 2020
Michael Jordan embodies the kind of athlete and Black leader that the U.S. ruling class has gone to great lengths to cultivate.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Identity Politics and Elite Capture
20 May 2020
The trouble is that identity politics is the victim of elite capture in the service of their own interests.
Jon Jeter
Michael Jordan's Sad Legacy as the Plutocrats' Champ, and the Anti-Ali
29 Apr 2020
Ali, the People’s Champ, hurtled into the breach to come to the aid of his community while Jordan did all he could to distance himself.
Russell Rickford
Black Politics, Class Struggle and the Illusion of Centrism
25 Mar 2020
Black Democratic Party operatives seek to camouflage class antagonisms among African Americans and to equate racial progress with the feeble policies of “diversity and inclusion.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Trillion Dollar “Buying Power” is a Capitalist Hoax
24 Mar 2020
For decades, politicians and business people have claimed that, if only African Americans used their alleged trillion dollar consumer purchasing power wisely, Blacks would make great economic and p
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Misleaders Put Their Own Class Interest Above Black Health
16 Mar 2020
In their zeal to push Joe Biden for president, said Ajamu Baraka, the former Green Party vice presidential candidate, “the Black Misleadership Class is concealing class c
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor
As Biden Racks up Delegates the Crisis Among Black Folks and Democrat Party Deepens
12 Mar 2020
Slick operatives among the Black Misleadership Class have made an electoral pact with big capitalists that is totally against the interests of the Black working class.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Negroes for Bloomberg
29 Jan 2020
Chicago’s Bobby Rush and San Francisco’s London Breed have sold themselves to super-plutocrat Michael Bloomberg, the worst stop-and-frisker in history.
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
count ALL votes
27 Nov 2019
POW…POW…POW…POW… My leaders were voted out of office with hot lead ballots: red runoffs in driveways, beds, ballroom floors, on balconies, and college campuses.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Jay-Z Seeks to Profit from the War Machine
10 Sep 2019
Jay-Z isn’t just trying to make another billion bucks by undermining Colin Kaepernick and the “take a knee” movement, said Louis Jefferson, funder of the San-Jose, California-