African America

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A Real Chance for Mumia Freedom
20 Aug 2018
“Those hearings that are coming up on August 30th could lead to a new trial for Mumia,” said Orie Lumumba, of Family and Concerned Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Underground Fugitives Foresaw US Decline and Repression
20 Aug 2018
The underground radicals of the 1960s and 70s were prescient in their political analysis, according to Stephen Dillon, author of Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
US Banks’ Chief Export: White Supremacy
20 Aug 2018
Wall Street bankers brought their brand of racism to the US imperial project in the Caribbean and Latin America, said Peter James Hudson, author of Bankers of Empire: How Wall
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Imperial Head Doesn’t Know What Imperial Hand Is Doing
20 Aug 2018
“The whole imperialist system is in a state of severe crisis,” said Black Is Back Coalition chairman Omali Yeshitela, at the coalition’s annual conference, in St. Louis.
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Doing The Math?
16 Aug 2018
Knitting my brow, I’m wondering whether we have a word Problem— numerical, mathematical, logical, or political Problem?
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
New Study Reveals Old Fact: Black Male Youth Feel Threatened
16 Aug 2018
“The whiter the neighborhood they entered, the less safe Black boys felt.”
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Opposing Bipartisan Warmongering is Defending Human Rights of the Poor and Working Class
15 Aug 2018
“The responsibility of the left is to build on Trump’s anti-NATO remarks – whatever his motivations – by offering a real critique of NATO.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Lebron James and Nicolas Maduro Attacked for Serving the People
15 Aug 2018
“Both have attempted to serve the people and important lessons can be gleaned from their efforts.”
Mark P. Fancher
Rebellion on the NFL Plantation
15 Aug 2018
“An alternative league would be the antithesis of the NFL and also take its cue from ‘Bingo Long’s Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings.’”
Ken Morgan
Black Workers and Immigrants: Borrow a Page from Marx
15 Aug 2018
“Marx blamed the rulers of colonialism and those that exploited Irish workers for lower wages when they got to England, and not the exploited Irish worker.”