African America

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
“Brutality Bonds”
03 Jul 2018
Cities have gone billions of dollars in debt to pay for court settlements and judgments against brutal cops, with the profits from these so-called “brutality bonds” going mainly to large banks.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Racial and Ethnic Roundups are Legal, As Long As “Race” Is Not the Only Reason
28 Jun 2018
“When the feds invoke ‘national security’ all bets are off on how far they will go in suppressing the ‘threat,’ including mass roundups.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: No Protest for Black People
27 Jun 2018
by Margaret Kimberley by Margaret Kimberley
Leslie Mac
Family Separation Through Prison and Policing Should Also Outrage Us
27 Jun 2018
“This country continues to routinely separate children from their parents and has done so well before this current border crisis.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alaí Reyes-Santos’ “Our Caribbean Kin”
27 Jun 2018
“One must always be mindful of the kinship models one mobilizes to get people together in a quest for justice.”
Bryan K. Bullock
Modern Black Codes and the Cops That Enforce Them
27 Jun 2018
“The police respond as if the black person is guilty of whatever transgression the white person said they committed.”
Greg Palast
Ohio’s Junk Mail Trick Led the Supreme Court to Approve Jim Crow Voter Purge
27 Jun 2018
“The Help America Vote Act blew open a giant loophole in the National Voter Registration Act’s protections.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
NYPD Prey on Black and Brown Youth
26 Jun 2018
New York City police are using a 42,000-name “gang” database to prey on Black and brown youth, said Sadiki “Bro Shep” Olugbala, of the Stop The Raids Coalition.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Poor People’s Campaign Aims to Change “Political Narrative”
26 Jun 2018
The Poor People’s Campaign seeks to “change the political narrative in this country,” said Rev Graylon Hagler, senior pastor of the Plymouth United Church of Christ, who as been arrested three time
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Democratic Party is White Supremacist, Too
20 Jun 2018
“Neither party gives a damn about Black people’s right to self-determination.”