African America

Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 22, 2015
23 Jun 2015
Charleston Massacre: Vintage Americana Activist and writer Kevin Alexander Gray lives in Columbia, South Carolina, not far from the Charleston church shooter’s home town, where “a Confederate flag…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Tamir Rice and the Meaning of “No Justice – No Peace”
17 Jun 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Black Lives Matter” has become the default name for the emerging movement against police atrocities against Black people. Whatever the movement winds up calling…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Investigation into Tamir Rice Murder: No Bombshells – So Why the Nine Month Delay?
17 Jun 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The critical facts of 12 year-old Tamir Rice’s 2-second long fatal encounter with a Cleveland policeman are all recorded on video, but that’s…
Ajamu Nangwaya
Why are Y’all So Excited Over Mayor Tory’s Call for an "End" to Carding by the Cops?
17 Jun 2015
by Ajamu Nangwaya In response to widespread public protest, the mayor of Toronto’s largest city announced a reversal of his support for “carding,” Canada’s version stop-and-frisk. But Mayor John Tory…
Lorenzo St. Dubois
Modern U.S. Black Mass Movements and the Limits of Nonviolence
17 Jun 2015
by Lorenzo St. Dubois The “Ferguson movement,” later dubbed the Black Lives Matter movement, is less than a year old, but defenders of the racial status quo are busily posting dire warnings against…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 15, 2015
16 Jun 2015
Broken Windows Policing Criminalizes Communities The Police Reform Organization Project, or PROP, has released a report on damage done to ordinary people by New York City’s “Broken Windows” policing…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Democrats Hope to Bury Black Lives Matter Under Election Blitz
10 Jun 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Democrats hope the Black Lives Matter movement, like the Occupy Wall Street movement, will disappear amid the hype of the coming election season. “The Democrats…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Mass Protests Trigger On-Going Investigations of Police Homicides
10 Jun 2015
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The Washington Post’s effort to tabulate police killings of civilians has discovered that, “among the unarmed victims of police homicides,…
Ajamu Nangwaya
“Am I free to go?”: The Refuseniks’ Campaign to Resist Police Street Harassment
10 Jun 2015
by Ajamu Nangwaya “Carding,” Toronto’s version of stop-and-frisk, is opposed by a huge and growing proportion of the city’s population, as well as influential actors among the corporate elite. Yet,…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 8, 2015
09 Jun 2015
Black Lives Matter Movement is Dominant Theme at Left Forum “The powerful movements that have raised the slogan ‘No Justice-No Peace’ in Ferguson, Baltimore and across the country have shaken…