African America

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
9/11 Legacy: Two Contending Fascisms
12 Sep 2018
Two fascisms compete for popular support in the US. One is blatantly racist, the other offers a devil’s bargain that demands Black people accept austerity and war. Both must be fought.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Ocasio-Cortez’s Tweet to McCain means she IS a Democrat and ISN’T a Socialist
12 Sep 2018
It should be all too clear by now that the “Resistance” to Donald Trump within the US power structure is just a public relations stunt to sow popular consensus for war.
Max Blumenthal
Censored Documentary Exposes Israel’s Attack on Black Lives Matter
12 Sep 2018
Israeli operatives and their US lobbyists sprang into action when the Movement for Black Lives came out in support of the boycott Israel movement.
Paul Buhle
New Film Reveals Life of Civil Rights Activist Jack O’Dell
12 Sep 2018
Nobody was a bigger influence on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. than Jack O’Dell, the communist -- which is why O’Dell had to be jettisoned.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jeanne Theoharis’ “A More Beautiful and Terrible History”
12 Sep 2018
Today’s seekers of social justice need to grapple with what the legacies of past freedom fighters actually demand of us.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Vincent Lloyd’s “Black Natural Law”
12 Sep 2018
Black natural law allows us to identify the ideas of the powers that be, the ideas of the wealthy and the white, and demolish them.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Ramona Africa Needs Your Help
10 Sep 2018
Longtime MOVE Family spokesperson Ramona Africa’s health took a turn for the worse, necessitating an emergency appeal for assistance.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Chicago Cop Murder Trial Begins
10 Sep 2018
“The one truth” in former cop Jason Van Dyke’s not guilty plea in the 2014 killing of Laquan McDonald “is when he says, ‘I was doing as I was trained by the Chicago Police Department,” said author
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
“Anonymous” Shows Split in Ruling Class
10 Sep 2018
The “Anonymous” article in the New York Times is more evidence of “a real split in the upper levels of the US ruling elite,” said Dr Gerald Horne, professor of history and Afr
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Trump Protects Al Qaeda, "The Resistance” Applauds, Cursing “Russians”
06 Sep 2018
The “Russians” had to be reinstalled as the “enemy” after Obama made his alliance with Islamist jihad. Trump has now signed on as Protector of the Idlib Caliphate.