African America

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio December 2, 2022
02 Dec 2022
The NYPD Gang Database profiles communities of color, Cleveland's mayor breaks a campaign promise for community control of police, and a conversation on which protests are considered legitimate, and…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Activists Demand Report on the NYPD Gang Database
02 Dec 2022
Rigodis Appling has been a public defender in Manhattan for 17 years. She is currently working in the Special Litigation and Community Justice Unit at The Legal Aid Society. She is also a founding…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Cleveland Mayor Breaks Campaign Promise on Community Control of Police
02 Dec 2022
Taru Taylor is a freelance journalist based in Cleveland, where he focuses on the issue of police reform. He recently wrote an op-ed in the Cleveland Plain Dealer about that city’s mayor,…
Dr.Wilmer J. Leon, III
Is The “Conscience of the Congress” Unconscious?
30 Nov 2022
The Congressional Black Caucus has strayed far from the politics of its original members. Once called the "conscience of the congress," the group is made up of Democratic Party loyalists living off…
Kalonji Changa
The Two Types of Death Penalties
30 Nov 2022
The governor of Missouri refused to grant clemency to Kevin Johnson and the state Supreme Court denied motions to halt his execution. The US Supreme Court refused to hear his case. Kevin Johnson was…
Pan-African Community Action PACA
DC Government’s Racial Equity Plan is Elite Capture by The State
30 Nov 2022
Racial inequity is the result of racist and capitalist policies and can't be defeated by the self-interested Black political class.
Phillip Clark
Ujima’s Plan to Transcend Neoliberalism in Maryland
23 Nov 2022
The Ujima People's Progress Party is organizing outside of the duopoly in an effort to gain true political representation for Black working people.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Bittersweet Freedom for Mutulu Shakur
16 Nov 2022
Mutulu Shakur has been granted parole, but he is terminally ill. Black political prisoners in this country are held for 30, 40 and 50 years. Reprieve happens only when they are at death's door.
Benjamin Woods
Social Democracy Will Not Save Us
16 Nov 2022
The author makes the case that liberalism is a dead end and that socialism is the only tool for Black liberation.
Kim Ives
Colia Clark Presente!
16 Nov 2022
Colia Clark was a veteran of the Black Liberation Movement who worked with Medgar Evers, who was also affiliated with the NAACP and who served as Executive Secretary of the Student Non-Violent…