African America

Solomon Comissiong
Black Mis-Leadership Vs. African Revolutionaries: White Supremacy Elevates One, While Trying to Suppress the Other
18 Nov 2015
by Solomon Comissiong Black politicians (who are almost all Democrats) have no principles, no ambitions other than to “build their shacks of power within the Democratic Party’s political plantation…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
This Ain’t Your Grandfather’s Civil Rights Movement
12 Nov 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Shaun King and others like to compare today’s incipient movement to the civil rights era. But that’s a mistake. Today’s youth confront “a profoundly post-civil…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Corporate Media is Never Your Friend
11 Nov 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford After bringing the University of Missouri to its knees, Black students wanted some privacy in a “black space,” away from the peering eyes and suspect motives of the…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Self Determination: What It Is, What It Isn't
11 Nov 2015
by Danny Haiphong Malcolm X’s call for Black self-determination remains widely misunderstood in the United States, including among Black activists. Some even hold that Barack Obama’s election was an…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 9, 2015
10 Nov 2015
A Movement in Need of Vision and Ideology Hundreds of activists will converge on Philadelphia’s Temple University, January 8-10, under the banner “Reclaiming Our Future: The Black Radical Tradition…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Demand Nothing, Get Nothing: The Movement Needs to Say What It Wants
05 Nov 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The movement that emerged in Ferguson must define itself through the demands it makes of Power – “a truth that appears to have been widely forgotten in the…
The Middle Age White Male Die-Off: When Skin Privilege is Not Enough
04 Nov 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford What happens to middle aged white men with only a high school education when white skin privilege is no longer enough to secure a…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 2, 2015
03 Nov 2015
Kick the Cops Out of Schools Parents and citizens outraged at the manhandling of a 16 year-old female high school student by a white policeman in Richland County, South Carolina, are pressing for…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Garza vs. McKesson: The Great Debate Over How the Democratic Party Will Liberate Black People
30 Oct 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford One side wants the Democrats to sponsor a town hall meeting on racial justice, the other prefers that the Party hold a Black issues oriented debate. Both #…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: White Settler Gentrification
30 Oct 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Black urbanites are under siege “because the dictates of capitalism and racism demand that white people return to the cities they fled.”…