African America

Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
August 144 hours
12 Aug 2015
by BAR poet in residence Raymond "Nat" Turner Our poet recalls the living memory of the Watts LA uprising a half century ago this week
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 10, 2015
11 Aug 2015
One-Fifth of Pennsylvania Prisoners, Including Mumia, Need Hep C Treatment Lawyers for Mumia Abu Jamal have filed suit against the State of Pennsylvania for refusing to treat the nation’s best known…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Poll Shows Black People Have Begun to Recover Their Senses on Race Relations
05 Aug 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Finally, Black perceptions of the actual racial situation in the United States are catching up with reality, after years of collective delusion under The First Black…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: A Dead Lion and a Dead Black Man
05 Aug 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley When word reached the U.S. that Cecil the lion had been shot to death in Zimbabwe, much of white America was reduced to tears. But few of them…
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Ph.D and Kevin Berend
BlackLivesMatter Activists: Targets of US Surveilence
05 Aug 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The Obama administration’s spy agencies have been keeping track of the movements, communications and activities of the new crop of Black…
Paul Street
Bernie Sanders’ Top Five Race Problems: The Unbearable Whiteness of Nominal Nordic Socialism
04 Aug 2015
by Paul Street
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
The Only Issue in 2016 – the Legacy of 1776
04 Aug 2015
by Dr. T. P. Wilkinson The clowns are gathering for the circus that tours the U.S. every four years. There will be sideshows aplenty, but the central theme of the extravaganza – its sacred core – is…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of Aug 3, 2015
04 Aug 2015
Predator Cops Fill Graveyards U.S. police killed 412 people in 1976, 333 in 1984, and 385 in 1990, wrote Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, in an essay now republished for…
NetRoots Nation Confrontation Wasn't About #BlackLivesMatter At All
24 Jul 2015
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon NetRootsNation is a gathering for paid and wannabe paid Democratic party activists, including the ostensibly non-partisan ones.…
Obama’s Takes His Prison Reform Con Game on the Road
22 Jul 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Never has a president been so highly praised for fraudulent efforts and fictitious accomplishments than Barack Obama, who now pretends –…