African America

The Public Archive
Labor and Liberation: An Interview with Margaret Stevens
11 Jul 2018
“Black working class militancy is THE essential precondition for the fight against racism, but it is not sufficient.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Scandalizing Homeless Black Men
09 Jul 2018
Uhuru Movement activist Akile Anai is leading a campaign to put reparations and community development on the ballot, next year, in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Greens Take on Barbara Lee
09 Jul 2018
Green Party candidates won the right to challenge Democratic incumbents, one-on-one, for three California congressional seats, including Barbara Lee’s San Francisco Bay area district.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The “Bought-Off” Black Caucus
09 Jul 2018
“They won’t do anything for us and, in fact, they’ll vote alongside our enemies,” said BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley, referring to the Congressional Black Cauc
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Caucus Support for Anti-Lynching Law is a Sham
04 Jul 2018
“The lynchers-in-blue run amuk because they are aided and abetted by the Black Misleadership Class and its Democratic elected representatives in Congress.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Britt Rusert’s “Fugitive Science”
04 Jul 2018
“We are seeing the reemergence of a white supremacist engagement with science that has always existed, but is finding more traction within the public sphere and media.”
Miles Kampf-Lassin
The Anti-Union Janus Ruling Is Going to Hit Black Women the Hardest
04 Jul 2018
“The public sector provides job opportunities for African-American workers, and women especially, at a rate much higher than the private sector.”
Josmar Trujillo
Papers Insist ‘We Need’ Secret Gang Databases—Just Like We ‘Needed’ Stop & Frisk
04 Jul 2018
“Police gang databases can lead to increased bail, harsher sentencing, erosion of presumption of innocence and even increased chances of deportation.”
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
What’s a Gang, and Who’s In It?
03 Jul 2018
The New York City police department keeps a list of 42,000 alleged gang members, and uses it to bring conspiracy charges that have resulted in mass arrests in Black and brown neighborhoods.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Buffalo Neighborhoods Saturated With Checkpoints
03 Jul 2018
For the past five years, Buffalo, New York, cops have concentrated their checkpoints on the Black side of town, raking in record revenues from fines.