African America

Mayor-elect Lumumba: Jackson “to be the Most Radical City on the Planet”
21 Jun 2017
by Anna Wolfe Chokwe Antar Lumumba and his supporters won a second chance to make Jackson, Mississippi, the city that tests the limits of what can be accomplished in a mostly Black city under U.S.…
A Case for Reparations at the University of Chicago
21 Jun 2017
by Ashley Finigan, Caine Jordan, Guy Emerson Mount, Kai Parker The University of Chicago, the famous center of laissez-fair capitalist economics on the city’s South Side, was endowed by one of…
What’s Hidden Behind the Walls of America’s Prisons?
13 Jun 2017
by Heather Ann Thompsom The U.S. penal system is like a cosmic Black Hole: far more massive than its counterparts anywhere else in the world -- with 2.3 million behind bars, 4.5 million on probation…
America's Toxic Prisons: The Environmental Injustices of Mass Incarceration
13 Jun 2017
by Candice Bernd, Zoe Loftus-Farren and Maureen Nandini Mitra Most people realize that prisons are bad for the bodies and minds of the inmates. However, the vast U.S. prison gulag is also a huge…
Jeffrey B. Perry
100th Anniversary of Hubert Harrison’s Founding of the Militant “New Negro Movement”
13 Jun 2017
by Jeffrey B. Perry The modern Black liberation movement can be said to have begun with the founding of Hubert Harrison’s Liberty League, in Harlem, a century ago. The League demanded that lynching…
In the Face of Trump's Surveillance Threats, Local Movements Demand Disclosure of Police Technologies
05 Jun 2017
by Candice Bernd In anticipation that the Trump administration will expand on Obama’s domestic spying practices, a coalition of civil liberties groups is pushing a Community Control Over Police…
Melissa Harris-Perry is Blowing Smoke Again
01 Jun 2017
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry brands the NAACP “irrelevant” in a May 30 New York Times opo ed without the bother of naming a single…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black-Hating Negroes and Their Uses: David Clarke at Homeland Security
01 Jun 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Black sheriff from Milwaukee is a cartoon character whose elevation to Homeland Security is intended as an insult to Black people and a sop to the most bigoted…
How Privilege Politics Erases Radicals of Color
30 May 2017
by Matthew Kovac Reformists claim they are protecting marginalized populations by supporting Democrats and avoiding real confrontation with Power. But Blacks have historically been in the vanguard of…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Jeff Sessions, Eric Holder and Mass Black Incarceration -- Revisited and Revised
17 May 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Attorney General Jeff Session is a nightmare, but Eric Holder, his Black predecessor, was among those that opened the door to racial profiling, “pretext” traffic…