African America

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Make MLK’s Teachings Part of School Curriculum
21 Jan 2019
Dr Martin Luther King’s writings and speeches “should be a part of the curriculum of public schools,” said Larry Hamm, chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress, base
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
A Tale of Self-Serving Black Journalists and the Corporate Duopoly
17 Jan 2019
Diversity insulates the bosses from criticism by large elements of the oppressed classes, while posing little or no threat to capital and the rule of rich white men.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Kamala Harris Destroyed Black Lives
16 Jan 2019
Harris has spent her career locking up Black and brown people. She should not be allowed to shake hands, kiss babies or walk into black churches without being taken to task.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Democratic Party Obsession with Capitalism and Militarism Will Grow Worse by 2020
16 Jan 2019
The Democratic Party is a political trap designed to capture the most progressive constituency in the United States: Black America.
Teodrose Fikre
Evoking Muckrakers: Hannah Giorgis’s Devastating Critique of Senator Kamala Harris
16 Jan 2019
Kamala Harris’s memoir reads nothing like her actual record of locking up the poor and giving impunity to the rich.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kerry Chance’s “Living Politics in South Africa’s Urban Shacklands”
16 Jan 2019
Repression of the poor in South Africa has resulted in the criminalization of the very forms of struggle that made the democratic transition possible.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Corporate and Banking Interests Profit from Desecration of Black Maryland Graveyard
16 Jan 2019
Truth rises from the graves of Black ancestors in a wealthy Maryland county.
Norman Richmond aka Jalali
Another Look At Martin Luther King Jr.
16 Jan 2019
Dr King was a radical, a democratic socialist who saw economic transformation and social justice as inseparable.
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Uniting for a Green New Deal
16 Jan 2019
A real Green New Deal requires pushing issues Democrats don’t want to discuss, such as nationalization of industries, more democracy, and cuts to the military.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Philly DA is Focus of Mumia Rally
15 Jan 2019
Supporters of Mumia Abu Jamal rallied in Philadelphia, demanding that District Attorney Larry Krasner not thwart his appeal of a police murder conviction, 38 years ago.