African America

Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 28, 2015
29 Sep 2015
Black Families and Women Bear Burden of Mass Incarceration A survey of 1,000 former prison inmates and their families by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, in Oakland, California, “showed that…
Glen Ford with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor
CBC Monitor Report Card Ranks Terri Sewell Worst Black Member of Congress
24 Sep 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford, with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor Black Agenda Report is once again publishing the annual CBC Monitor Report Card. The former all-time worst Black Congressman,…
Glen Ford with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor
Congressional Black Caucus Report Card for 2015, the 114th Congress
24 Sep 2015
by Glen Ford with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor It's been several years since the Black Agenda Report team issued what used to be our annual report card on the Congressional Black Caucus, the cream…
Black Families Crushed By Prison and Death
23 Sep 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Every socio-economic fact conspires against successful Black family life, beginning with the dwindling pool of available husbands and…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
a place…
23 Sep 2015
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner I know a place where there’s more law in muzzles of Glocks and Tasers than in Supreme Court decisions; a place where gunmen, triggermen turn traffic…
Pascal Robert
Black Eugenics: How the Black Mis-leadership Class of the Early 20th Century Supported Sterilization of the Black Poor
23 Sep 2015
by Pascal Robert Throughout African American history, members of the Black elite have blamed the Black poor for “bringing down the race,” thus giving aid and comfort to white racists. “Calls by Negro…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
In Defense of the Panthers: Why the Film "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" Should be Put Down, and the Book "Black Against Empire" Picked Up
23 Sep 2015
by Danny Haiphong The author endorses former Panther leader Elaine Brown’s critique of the movie, However, Blacks Against Empire, the acclaimed book on the Party, meets his approval as “actual…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 21, 2015
22 Sep 2015
What Price Reparations? Based on calculations by University of Connecticut researcher Thomas Craemer, reparations to African Americans for slavery would cost between $5.9 trillionand $14.2…
Yale's Lucrative Wet Kiss Anoints #BlackLivesMatter's Deray McKesson Their Kind of “Transformational” Leader
16 Sep 2015
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Police “Training” is the Problem: They are Trained to Oppress Blacks
16 Sep 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Black people don’t need more “training” of the cops that patrol their communities. What’s needed is a new mission for the police – one that is radically different…