African America

Raul Castro Should Ask Obama: What About U.S. Political Prisoners?
23 Mar 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The man who presides over the largest prison population in the world, a system that is still holding political dissidents captured a half…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
EPA Officials Didn’t “Want to go Out on a Limb” for the People of Flint
23 Mar 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The federal and state actors that poisoned Flint, Michigan’s water tried to pin the crime on each other at a congressional hearing, last week.…
Robin D.G. Kelley
Black Study, Black Struggle
23 Mar 2016
by Robin D.G. Kelly Robin D.G. Kelley opened a debate published by the Boston Review. “The fully racialized social and epistemological architecture upon which the modern university is built cannot be…
Mark P. Fancher
Confessions of a Neo-Caucasian
23 Mar 2016
by Mark P. Fancher Human rights attorney and frequent BAR contributor Mark Fancher recently had a close encounter of the white supremacist kind. He learned that Donald Trump plans to use his awesome…
Solomon Comissiong
What if Most Trump Supporters Were People of Color or Muslims?
23 Mar 2016
by Solomon Comissiong European global expansion has been marked by white crimes against humanity for half a millennium. In the U.S. white settler state, non-whites and Muslims are profiled as…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 21, 2016
22 Mar 2016
Black Power Matters in 2016 “Fear of fascism being ‘right around the corner’ – this time in the form of Donald Trump – always means a vote for some kind of Democrat, as opposed to building our own…
Black Is Back Coalition Holds National Conference on Self-Determination and 2016 Elections
16 Mar 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Election seasons are consumed by talk of which candidates and parties are “winning.” But, Black people never win, even if one of them is…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Empire’s Weapon of Identity Politics and the “Ghetto” Comment Controversy
16 Mar 2016
by Danny Haiphong President Obama’s political pit bulls have become attack dogs for Hillary Clinton. MSNBC pundit Joy Reid “has placed her career prospects” in Clinton’s camp, employing identity…
Paul Street
Bernie, Black, and Blue: Reflections on Race in the Democratic Primaries
16 Mar 2016
by Paul Street If Black people are the most left-leaning constituency in the United States, why have they been voting for right-wing Democrat Hillary Clinton in the primaries? It is true that Bernie…
Bryan K. Bullock
Blacks Have Always Had to Fight to Make Their Lives Matter in America
16 Mar 2016
by Bryan K. Bullock The simple, straight-forward assertion “Black Lives Matter” seems to jangle the sensibilities of millions of white Americans, who counter that “ALL lives matter” or “BLUE lives…