African America

Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Carl Dix: Revolutionary Communist – Fighting the Plague of Mass Incarceration
26 Aug 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Veteran activist Carl Dix discusses his early incarceration and how he became a revolutionary and a major figure in the fight against mass…
Concerning Reactionaries and Thugs: The New Black Panther Party
26 Aug 2015
by Elbert “Big Man” Howard The recent assault on former Black Panther and 19-year political prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad reveals, once again, that the so-called New Black Panther Party is a collection…
Paul Bermanzohn
Hiding in Plain Sight: The History of the War on Drugs
26 Aug 2015
by Paul Bermanzohn The War on Drugs was a direct response to the African American uprisings of the 1960s. Three hundred cities rose in Black rebellion. A a fervor for change spread across the land…
Brendan McQuade
Non-Profits and the Pacification of the Black Lives Matter Movement
26 Aug 2015
by Brendan McQuade It takes many actors to pacify a rebellion. Police repression is only one tool, and often counterproductive. In Chicago, the ACLU hijacked local legislation that would have…
Mark P. Fancher
Black Children’s Dreams Crushed on a Field of Nightmares
26 Aug 2015
by Mark P. Fancher Organized Little League baseball last year stripped Chicago’s champion Jackie Robinson West team of their World Series title. The injustice blends their anguished voices “with…
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Color Blind or Just Blind
26 Aug 2015
by Dr. T.P. Wilkinson Liberals, the Phony Left, and the supine Black Misleadership Class spread the false gospel that, as bad as things are, they are far better than they used to be. But what could…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 24, 2015
26 Aug 2015
Black U.S. Movers and Shakers in Solidarity with Palestine One thousand Black American activists, artists and academics have signed a petition backing the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
#BlackLivesMatter Performs a Self-Humiliation at Hillary Clinton’s Hands
20 Aug 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Hillary Clinton found it easy to reduce a #BlackLivesMatter delegation to “school children at an elementary civics class,” when they met with her last week. Clinton…
Black College Households Lost Half Their Wealth Despite Degrees
19 Aug 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Black households headed by college graduates have been steadily losing ground to their white collegiate peers over the past two decades.…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Katrina in the White Imagination
19 Aug 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan could not contain his gratitude to Hurricane Katrina, which killed or permanently displaced much of New…