| Black Agenda Report

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
DA and Cops Led the Central Park 5 Lynch Mob
11 Jun 2019
The horrific ordeal that was inflicted on five Harlem teenagers by a criminal justice and corporate media lynch mob in 1989, has come back to haunt the former lead prosecutor, Linda Fairstein,in th
Elizabeth Hinton
How the ‘Central Park Five’ Changed the History of American Law
05 Jun 2019
Despite no DNA evidence, fingerprints, blood, or semen linking any of the black and brown boys to the crime, all five defendants grew up in prison.
Joe Penny
The Fight for Justice Takes Its Toll on Ferguson Activists
13 Mar 2019
Activists keep winding up dead under questionable circumstances, but Black St. Louis is a stressful and violent place.
Paul Street
Buried Alive: The Story of Police State Racism in Chicago
20 Feb 2019
Chicago media care more about the safety of a killer cop and the Jesse Smollett saga than victims of the city’s rabidly racist police.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Free Marzieh Hashemi
23 Jan 2019
A Black American journalist languishes in a DC jail, imprisoned without charge as part of the US vendetta against Iran, yet the Black political class has not raised a peep in protest.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Arrest of Marzieh Hashemi Reveals Nature of Bipartisan Police State
23 Jan 2019
The only reason our sister is being held captive is to once again demonstrate how a runaway slave is treated.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Chicago Movement to Target Pro-Cop City Council Members
03 Dec 2018
“There are 34 alderpeople who were all part of the conspiracy to hide the video” that was key to proving a Chicago cop murdered Laquan McDonald, said Black Lives Matter activist Aislinn Pul
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Spike Lee Movie Whitewashes Police Repression of Blacks
17 Sep 2018
Robin DG Kelly, the author and essayist, agrees with Boots Riley’s critique of BlacKkKlansman, the Spike Lee movie whose hero is a Black cop who spies on Black activists.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Victory Over Military Cop Convention
04 Apr 2018
“The best-selling t-shirt at the previous year's expo: a picture of an assault weapon with the caption ‘Black Rifles Matter.’”