Black Political Class

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
You Can’t Shame the Shameless Black Misleadership Class
27 Jul 2022
The Black misleaders have been busy selling out Black people for half a century, but are still only barely tolerated by the rich man’s Democratic Party and its racist figurehead, Joe Biden.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Congresswoman Karen Bass and the Will to Intervene
20 Jul 2022
Congresswoman Karen Bass is running for mayor of Los Angeles. She's also Vice Chair of the NED, the CIA's soft power arm. She epitomizes everythng that is wrong with the Black political class.
Erica Caines
Punch Left Move Right: Stacey Abrams and the Democratic Party Shuffle
29 Jun 2022
Stacey Abrams's campaign to become Governor of Georgia features the popular democratic strategy of pretending to be progressive while advocating for right wing issues, such as allocating more money…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
New York Bail Reform Fight
23 Feb 2022
Black legislators in New York are defending their legislation which reduces the use of cash bail.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Eric Adams' Black on Black Crime
09 Feb 2022
The mass incarceration state was built to lock up as many Black people as possible and discussion of even modest reforms is shut down.
Donald Shaw
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Has a New Corporate Megadonor
09 Feb 2022
Amazon donated $1.7 million to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation last year as it faced allegations of illegal anti-union work.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Black Misleadership Class Attempts to Obfuscate their Carceral State Correlation with the Bogeyman of “white wokeness"
14 Dec 2021
At a time that we need more justice and access to democracy, the Black Misleadership Class is fighting for more prisons and tawdry police reforms under the guise of equity and Black liberation.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Elections and the Illusion of Black Political Power
03 Nov 2021
Black politicians may be openly conservative or pretend leftists but their constituents rarely get what they need.
Zachariah Wilkerson
Frank Talk on Little Rock's Frank Scott
29 Nov 2018
“What better way to enslave a man then to give him the vote and tell him he is free.” – Albert Camus
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Black Unity Behind Black Candidates Helps Whom? Us? Or Them?
21 Sep 2018
Ten years ago it was 2008.