African America

Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
The Million Man March from the Perspective of Millennials: Which Way Forward?
13 Oct 2015
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo They journeyed to the Washington Mall by the hundreds of thousands, as had Black men 20 years before. They were led to believe that an…
Confederate Flag Wavers Arrested Under Law Designed to Imprison Blacks
13 Oct 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford A Georgia prosecutor turned the state’s gang law on a group of Confederate flag-waving white supremacists – the first such use of the…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Stein Bop Blues March On Gentrifiers
13 Oct 2015
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Unsettling settlers settle settling like sulfur over UN peace talks. Unsettling settlers settle neighborly disputes using police like cavalry and Kit…
Joel Northam
The Black Lives Matter Schism: Towards a Vision for Black Autonomy
13 Oct 2015
by Joel Northam The #BlackLivesMatter organization’s “Campaign Zero” is the “ultimate bastardization of militant resistance” – an absurd catch-all of proposals masquerading as demands. The “campaign’…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 12, 2015
13 Oct 2015
Atty. Gen. Lynch Backtracks on Killer Cop Stats Black activists are outraged at Attorney General Loretta Lynch for backing away from her predecessor’s verbal commitment to require local police…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Obama’s Justice: Holder Fought Prisoner Release, Lynch Backtracks on Killer Cops
07 Oct 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder are given false credit for the pending release of 6,000 drug offenders, when in fact “the administration has…
Norman Richmond
Al Prentice “Bunchy" Carter” Would Have Rode with Nat Turner
07 Oct 2015
by Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali October 12 is the birthday of one of the most talented and promising young men martyred in the massive State repression against the Black Panther Party for Self…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 5, 2015
06 Oct 2015
Reps. John Lewis and Terri Sewell Scheme to Keep Racist’s Name on Selma Bridge State Sen. Hank Sanders and lots of other people in Selma, Alabama, want to name the Edmund Pettus Bridge for Amelia…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Why I Ain't Getting on the Bus for the MMM This Or Any Other Year
01 Oct 2015
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Getting on the bus to DC this October 10? BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon wishes you safe travels, but he ain't coming. “Justice or Else” is a meaningless slogan…
The Whites Are Coming! The Whites Are Coming!: Gentrification Surging in U.S. Cities
30 Sep 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford When Wall Street sets its collective minds and money to the task of gentrification, urban populations move – rapidly! In just the past…