African America

Arun Gupta
The Financial Firm That Cornered the Market on Jails
03 Aug 2016
by Arun Gupta The financial services industry is ruthlessly exploiting America’s vast captive market of jail and prison inmates with fee-heavy cards. Corporate vultures have seized market…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Obama Prepares to Reinforce the Militarized Police Occupation of Black America
28 Jul 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Barack Obama is “responsible for the biggest escalation in the history of the one-sided war against Black America." He increased militarization of local police 24-…
This Movement Has Millions of Mothers, Most of Them NOT Campaigning For Hillary Clinton
27 Jul 2016
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Bruce A. Dixon The so-called mothers of the movement being trotted before national audiences to vouch for the motherly sincerity of Hillary Clinton are not players…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 25, 2016
25 Jul 2016
Activists Take the Fight to Cops’ “Doorsteps” The Fraternal Order of Police is “the most dangerous fraternity in all of America,” said Samantha Masters, spokesperson for the Black Youth Project 100…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Ready Or Not, the Black Movement Enters a New Stage
21 Jul 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Black youth in the U.S. have crossed a kind of Rubicon, and the rulers are fearful — and so are their henchmen in the Black Misleadership Class. “When a Black beauty…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Gavin Long’s Last Words
20 Jul 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley So-called “responsible” Black folks may dismiss the young Black veteran gunmen of Dallas and Baton Rouge as deranged, but who are really “the…
Paul Street
Micah Xavier Johnson and Gavin Long: Seventeen Reasons
20 Jul 2016
by Paul Street After having for centuries treated Black people, especially young Black men, as existential dangers to the (white) nation, U.S. rulers act surprised that the day of the Black American…
Ken Peeples
“Black-on-Black Violence”: Red-Herrings and Mass Gaslighting
20 Jul 2016
by Ken Peeples In the U.S., homicide is largely segregated by race – except when police are involved. But “white-on-white violence is almost never discussed,” despite the fact that most mass killings…
Steve Martinot
The “Fundamentalism” in Police Operations
20 Jul 2016
by Steve Martinot Police thinking resembles the circular reasoning of religious zealotry. “Against the pretense of an equality of persons, or equality of races, or a diversity of cultures, the…
Solomon Comissiong
Modern Day 'Slave' Patrols and the Ongoing Legacy of Police Terrorizing African/Black Communities
20 Jul 2016
by Solomon Comissiong The U.S. system of mass Black incarceration cannot reformed, but must be dismantled, root and branch. “The job of the police force in predominately African/black communities is…