Africa

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
“Scent of Africa” Marketed to “Afropolitans”
11 May 2020
Fifty years after most African nations won nominal independence, ad agencies are marketing upscale products like the perfume “Scent of Africa” to so-called “Afropolitans,” a cohort defined by
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 20, 2020
20 Apr 2020
Covid-19 and the Black Working Class
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
"Decolonizing" Science in Multi-Language Africa
20 Apr 2020
South African communicator and journalist Sibusiso Biyela wrote an article on “decolonizing” science so that it is accessible to the country’s many indigenous language gr
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 23, 2020
24 Mar 2020
Black Trillion Dollar “Buying Power” is a Capitalist Hoax
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Too Fast to Be a Woman
24 Mar 2020
When South African track star Caster Semenya won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games, critics claimed “she was cheating and had no right to compete with other women” because she performed more
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
James Baldwin’s African Awakening
24 Mar 2020
Although famed writers James Baldwin never wrote a book entirely about Africa in his long career, his later works show him awakening to “the potential of Black internationalism” with the decoloniza
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
If the Left Doesn’t Critique Endless War, Who Will?
02 Mar 2020
“We must raise the issues of war and imperialism in electoral politics in this country,” even if the Democrats don’t, said BAR senior columnist Margaret Kimberley, speaking at
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 17, 2020
18 Feb 2020
US Must Build Housing on a Bigger Scale than the New Deal
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 10, 2020
10 Feb 2020
Embassy Activists Face Prison in Trial Based on Trump Venezuela Fantasy
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Global Struggle Continues -- But So Does Racism
10 Feb 2020
Students of all races should be exposed to the history of movements of liberation from colonialism and racist rule, said Nana Osei-Opare, a professor of history at Fordham Uni