African America

Youth Leads the Struggle in Chicago
02 Dec 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The supremely arrogant Mayor “Rahmbo” Emanuel has been temporarily chastened by the drumbeat of protests against the killing of Laquan…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Killer White Men and the People Who Love Them
01 Dec 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Reflections on Multiracial Identity on Another Thanksgiving Passed
01 Dec 2015
by Danny Haiphong The U.S. imperial domain floats on raw force and fairy tales. One myth “paints the U.S. as a safe haven for people of different backgrounds instead of the genocidal…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 30, 2015
01 Dec 2015
Two Rights Groups Refuse to Sign Off on Sentencing “Reform” Bill Legislation is moving through the U.S. House and Senate that would retroactively shorten sentences for crack cocaine possession and,…
Suzanne Ross
To Protect and Serve Who? Mumia’s New Pamphlet on Organizing to Abolish Police Violence
24 Nov 2015
by Suzanne Ross The nation’s best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal, has weighed in on the debate over how to control the police. The former Black Panther “uses the Marxist analysis of the…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
“Black Lives Matter” Groups Hoping for a Big Payday
19 Nov 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford This week, the billionaires that fund the Democratic Party and its satellite organizations will decide which of the “Black Lives Matter” groups will get paid to lead…
Baltimore Study Sheds Light on Bankers’ Scheme To Expel Blacks from the City
18 Nov 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Banks in Baltimore “have condemned the Black sections of town to a death spiral of social and physical deterioration” as a matter of…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Following the Underground Railroad: A Black Man Seeks Asylum in Canada
18 Nov 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Ever since the founding of the United States, many Black people have clung tightly to their claim to citizenship in the racist Republic. However…
Marilyn Kai Jewett
The People Demand Treatment for Mumia and 10,000 PA Inmates Suffering from Hepatitis C
18 Nov 2015
by Marilyn Kai Jewett Legions of labor leaders, elected officials and health professionals demand that Pennsylvania prison officials immediately begin treating Mumia Abu Jamal and approximately 10,…
Julian Cola
Rewind: Is Jazz America’s Greatest Artform?
18 Nov 2015
by Julian Cola The United States is expert at expropriating other people’s property: land, bodies and culture. It has expropriated jazz, alienating the art form from the people that created it, who…