African America

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
Why We Should Teach About the FBI’s War on the Civil Rights Movement
16 Mar 2016
by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 14, 2016
15 Mar 2016
“Billionaires” Fund Defamation of Public Schools, Teachers A poll commissioned by In The Public Interest shows Americans still hold public schools and teachers in high regard, want charter schools to…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
The “Negro Whisperer” from 1926 to 2016: Seasonal Workers
09 Mar 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo MSNBC has decided that its stable of in-house Black Democrats is no longer in season, and can be discarded. Melissa Harris-Perry is hurt. She…
Kali Akuno
Countering the Confederate “Spring”: the Assault on Black Political Power in Jackson, MS
09 Mar 2016
by the Jackson Human Rights Institute and Cooperation Jackson Majority Black Jackson, Mississippi is about to be stripped of control of its most valuable assets by a Republican legislature.…
Paul Street
“All Lives Matter”: More Stupid White Noise
09 Mar 2016
by Paul Street Mountains of statistics testify to the national disregard for Black lives. But white supremacists fire back that Blacks have “brought it on themselves” and victimize their own people…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Huey Newton: A Revolutionary Hero
09 Mar 2016
by Danny Haiphong The film that does justice to Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party has yet to be created. Stanley Nelson’s PBS depiction “is riddled with distortion and inaccuracy” and…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 7, 2016
08 Mar 2016
New FBI Guidelines for Targeting Classroom “Radicals” The nation’s teachers will soon be getting revised FBI guidelines on how to spot “radicalized” students. “The modern FBI ‘counter-violence and…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Bye Melissa
02 Mar 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Margaret Kimberley When Melissa Harris-Perry publicly announced her resignation from MSNBC, the cable network that serves as the Democratic Party's house organ, she…
High Corporate Crimes In Michigan Must be Terminated with Extreme Prejudice
02 Mar 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford “Under corporate rule, high finance is the motive for the highest of crimes, while the exercise of free speech and assembly and other…
Maya Rockeymore
Did the People Who Took Home Oscars Really Deserve Them, Given How Biased the Process Was?
02 Mar 2016
by Maya Rockeymoore The people who control the selection of artists and project teams for Hollywood films are 96 percent white and 87 percent male. They are not smarter or more creative than…