African America

Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The Assassination of Sandra Bland and the Struggle against State Repression
22 Jul 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The Black Lives Matter movement has another martyr, as it prepares for a national conference in Cleveland, this weekend. Sandra Bland’s murder in Texas shows…
Bill Quigley
New Orleans Katrina Pain Index at Ten: Who Was Left Behind
22 Jul 2015
by Bill Quigley A decade after the Katrina catastrophe, 100,000 people have still not returned to New Orleans, most of them Black. Whites in the city have gotten a lot richer, yet poverty still…
Steve Martinot
The Violence of Police Politics
22 Jul 2015
by Steve Martinot The “dementia” of police behavior is reflected in U.S. prisons, where punishment is justified by the fact of incarceration. “Solitary confinement is imposed on those who think…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 20, 2015
21 Jul 2015
Mumia “May Have Been Poisoned” Six months after Mumia Abu Jamal nearly died from diabetic shock, the nation’s best known political prisoner’s underlying illness has yet to be diagnosed, said Dr.…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Prison Charade
15 Jul 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Barack Obama attempts to create a phony legacy as the prison “reform” president by extending clemency to 46 non-violent drug offenders – not all…
Obama’s Legacy: Black Child Poverty at Record High
15 Jul 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The consequences of the Great Recession “and the Obama administration’s response to it” have fallen most heavily on Black children,…
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Ph.D and Kevin Berend
Holder’s Legacy: Corporate Criminals Too Big to Jail But Mass Incarceration, Gentrification and Protection of Killer Cops for Black Folks – Part II
15 Jul 2015
by Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, editor and columnist Eric Holder has been praised as a “civil rights”-oriented attorney general, but the only rights he has championed are those of the bankers, white…
Paul Street
False Flag Change: History, the Confederate Flag, Obama and the Deeper American Racism
15 Jul 2015
by Paul Street The Confederate flag comes down at the capital of South Carolina, and smug white smiles go up all over America. “Meanwhile,” writes the author, “savage racial disparities persist and…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 13, 2015
14 Jul 2015
Austerity Rendering Detroit Unfit for Habitation A serious fire raged out control due to chronic low water pressure in Detroit, despite the majority Black city’s location in one of the world’s major…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Self Determination Matters
09 Jul 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford After two generations of political decay, Black people finally realize they “need to find ways to protect themselves from the police agencies of the Mass Black…