African America

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Anthony Monteiro: Dems Are Not Serious Or Socialist
11 Feb 2019
The Democrats’ flirtations with Medicare for All and taxing the rich are just “talking points for the 2020 elections, to be dropped and forgotten afterwards,” said Dr Anthony Monteiro
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, Trump and the State of Imperial Decline
07 Feb 2019
Bernie Sanders’ anticipated second run for the presidency is the 6-ton elephant in the Democratic boardroom.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
On Venezuela and NATO, the Democratic Party is the “Assistance” Not the “Resistance” to Empire
06 Feb 2019
Black, working and poor people can expect no relief from Democrats, who will continue to divert the nation’s resources to foreign wars and coups.
Eric Blanc
Cory Booker Hates Public Schools
06 Feb 2019
Cory Booker rose to prominence as a fanatical backer of school privatization, yet poses as a friend of public education and teachers.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Msia Clark’s “Hip-Hop in Africa”
06 Feb 2019
The author employs Frantz Fanon’s discussion of protest culture as a lens of analysis of hip-hop in Africa.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Katie Grimes’s “Fugitive Saints”
06 Feb 2019
The Catholic Church was deeply involved in legitimizing and regulating slavery – a very unsaintly legacy.
Telesur
Tasers Claimed 49 Lives in 2018 Through Police Violence
06 Feb 2019
There have been a total of at least 1,081 deaths after the use of Tasers since the weapon began coming into widespread use in the early 2000s.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
AIDS and the Black Poor
04 Feb 2019
“Black men are still dying of AIDS” in disproportionate numbers for lack of access to life-saving drugs, said Darius Bost, professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah and
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Corporate Dems Try to Swamp Sanders
04 Feb 2019
Bernie Sanders better hurry up and formally enter the presidential contest, said Danny Haiphong, weekly columnist for Black Agenda Report.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Cop-Control Movement Targets Chicago Council
04 Feb 2019
Community control of police activists in Chicago are challenging virtually the entire city council in this month’s elections.