African America

Dr. Matthew Quest
Without Enchanted Followers: Eusi Kwayana’s Reconsideration of the Jonestown Fiasco
13 Apr 2016
by Matthew Quest The tragedy of Jonestown was not just an American saga. Most renditions of the Jonestown story tend “to obscure a sincere (but failed) effort at having faith in working toward a new…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 11, 2016
12 Apr 2016
Mississippi Schemes to Dismember Tax Base of Black Capital City The Republican-run State of Mississippi has moved to seize the City of Jackson’s two airports and a medical services corridor, and is…
Dan De Leon
They Call Me MISTER Picasso!
06 Apr 2016
by Dan De Leon A Latina high school student created the art work, above, inspired by a previous work titled A Tale of Two Hoodies. However, she was later ‘persuaded’ by the Denver schools’…
Bill Quigley
Katrina, Climate Justice and Fish Dinners: Social Justice Lawyer Colette Pichon Battle
06 Apr 2016
by Bill Quigley A young corporate lawyer returned to Louisiana to immerse herself in the post-Katrina struggles of her people. “People were being asked, in the middle of trauma, to sign away…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 4, 2016
05 Apr 2016
Carolina Youths Demand Black Community Control of Police The city of Greenville, South Carolina witnessed two large funerals in recent weeks: one for a white cop, the other for 17 year-old Deontaye…
Just What We Need: More Black Celebrity Charter School Crooks... I Mean 'Entrepreneurs'
31 Mar 2016
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Sean “Diddy” Combs, with accomplices Iyanla Vanzant and privatization hustler Steve Perry are fronting the Capital Prepatory…
Black Brooklyn DA’s Leniency for Killer Cop Shows the “Whole System is Guilty as Hell”
30 Mar 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Black faces in high prosecutorial places do not equal criminal justice reform. The first Black district attorney for Brooklyn, New York,…
Benjamin Woods
Class Struggle and National Liberation in the Movement for Black Lives
30 Mar 2016
by Benjamin Woods The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) must recognize the dynamic relationship between race and class in Black America – contradictions that “can only be resolved through explicit,…
Peter James Hudson
The Racist Dawn of Capitalism: Unearthing the Economy of Bondage
30 Mar 2016
by Peter James Hudson Capitalist historians and other political actors attempt to treat chattel slavery as a “pre-capitalist” system that was extirpated in the Americas by its supposed nemesis…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 28, 2016
29 Mar 2016
Colonial Chickens Come Home to Roost in the West In the wake of the Brussels bombing, we hear variations of the same old theme: “They [Muslims] hate us [the ‘West’] because of our freedoms.” However…