African America

Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
On the Utility of Self-Criticism and Criticism in the Future of Struggle: The Case of Ta-Nehisi Coates
03 Feb 2016
by Danny Haiphong The author recommends that a healthy dose of criticism and self-criticism might clarify Ta-Nehisi Coates’ argument with Bernie Sanders over reparations. “It would be appropriate to…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 1, 2016
02 Feb 2016
A Reprieve for “Child Lifers” in Prison Thousands of inmates serving life sentences for crimes committed when they were juveniles may be eligible for release from prison in the wake of a U.S. Supreme…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Ethnic Cleansing: The Ultimate Environmental Racism
28 Jan 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford What happened in Flint was not a simple case of environmental racism, but ethnic cleansing by lethal means. The ethnic cleansing of the cities – otherwise known as…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Flint, Michigan and Democracy
27 Jan 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Disaster capitalists demand – and get – government subsidies to carry out their crimes. However, the poor victims of corporate mayhem can’t count…
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Ph.D and Kevin Berend
The EPA Blame Game and the Flint Lead Atrocity: Criminal Prosecutions Must Follow
27 Jan 2016
by EPA editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Kevin Berends The law is clear: once officials at the federal Environmental Protection Agency were made aware of hazardous material in Flint…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
McKesson's Colbert Appearance is the Direction Imperialism Wants for the Black Lives Matter Movement
27 Jan 2016
by Danny Haiphong DeRay McKesson, the twitterist whose followers have met twice with Hillary Clinton, appeared on Stephen Colbert’s show to conduct what looked like another of Campaign Zero’s “racial…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 25, 2016
26 Jan 2016
Dismantling Capitalism and Imperialism This month’s conference on the Black Radical Tradition, held at Temple University, in Philadelphia, was an historic gathering of 21st century Black “anti-…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Return of the “Happy” Slave
20 Jan 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley How does a writer make slavery a light and breezy read for children? By presenting a story that’s comforting to white bosses at corporate…
Frank X Murphy
Flint River Poison and Governor Snyder’s New Clothes
20 Jan 2016
by Frank X Murphy The whole world knows that Flint River water stinks and is full of lead. But, it is “the smell of Gov. Rick Snyder’s unprecedented, radically anti-democratic and cunningly racist ‘…
Kali Akuno
An Unbroken Line: New Afrikan Resistance from 1619 to the Present
20 Jan 2016
by Kali Akuno The current upsurge in Black “movement”-type politics has been in the making for a decade. Katrina “reawakened the Black radical imagination” in 2005. Like a wave, the momentum built…