African America

Bryan K. Bullock
MLK and the Black Misleaders
20 Jan 2016
by Bryan K. Bullock The current crop of Black “leaders” ceremonially endorse Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and works – but he would not vouch for theirs. “They betray King’s legacy in their explicit…
Kali Holloway
The Massive Discrepancies Between Media Coverage of Mythical Crack Babies and Opiate-Dependent Babies
20 Jan 2016
by Kali Holloway Three decades ago, hysteria about “crack-babies” helped launch another wave of racial vilification and oppression. Today, most new drug addicts are white, and “we have not…
Moving Left, Back to the Radical Root
13 Jan 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The Black Radical Tradition must still be alive and kicking, having drawn hundreds of activists and scholars to a conference, this…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Using Lebron James and the Oregon Occupation to Understand White Supremacy
13 Jan 2016
by Danny Haiphong Super-rich Black athlete Lebron James “chose to protect both his privileges and those of his bosses by refraining to comment on the blatant injustice of the Tamir…
Cecelia Reyes ProPublica and Jenny Ye
100,000 NYC School Children Face Airport-Style Security Screening Every Day
13 Jan 2016
by Cecelia Reyes, ProPublica, and Jenny Ye, WNYC Every day, more New York City public school kids pass through metal detectors and undergo head-to-toe pat-downs than the traffic through Miami…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 11, 2016
12 Jan 2016
Philadelphia Conference Reasserts Black Radical Tradition Hundreds of activists, academics and organizers from around the country descended on Temple University, in Philadelphia, January 8-10, for a…
Why the Feds Punk Out When Confronting White Rightwing Insurgents
07 Jan 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
A Minimal Demand: Roll Back Incarceration to 1970 Levels
07 Jan 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Prison populations have increased more than seven-fold since 1970, when the mass Black incarceration regime was set in motion. If incarceration was rolled back to…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Black Community Control of the Police and the Politicians
06 Jan 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Like macabre clockwork, prosecutors and their grand juries refuse to indict killer cops – most recently in the case of Tamir Rice. The Black…
R.L. Stephens II
The Hidden Colors of Frances Cress Welsing’s Historical Legacy
06 Jan 2016
by R.L. Stephens II Many are mourning the passing of Dr. Frances Welsing, whose melanin-based genetic pseudo-science found an eager audience among several generations of Black Americans. Her theory…