US Politics

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Make MLK’s Teachings Part of School Curriculum
21 Jan 2019
Dr Martin Luther King’s writings and speeches “should be a part of the curriculum of public schools,” said Larry Hamm, chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress, base
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
House Democrats’ HR 1 – Faking the Funk on Voting Rights, Spreading Fear and Gunning For the Greens in 2020
18 Jan 2019
House Democrats’ HR 1 – Faking the Funk on Voting Rights, Spreading Fear and Gunning For the Greens in 2020
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
A Tale of Self-Serving Black Journalists and the Corporate Duopoly
17 Jan 2019
Diversity insulates the bosses from criticism by large elements of the oppressed classes, while posing little or no threat to capital and the rule of rich white men.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Kamala Harris Destroyed Black Lives
16 Jan 2019
Harris has spent her career locking up Black and brown people. She should not be allowed to shake hands, kiss babies or walk into black churches without being taken to task.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Code Talking: UN Security Council on War and Peace in DR Congo
16 Jan 2019
Congolese President Kabila wants to shut out the apparent winner of last month’s elections in favor the of the second place finisher, who appears to have accepted the deal.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Democratic Party Obsession with Capitalism and Militarism Will Grow Worse by 2020
16 Jan 2019
The Democratic Party is a political trap designed to capture the most progressive constituency in the United States: Black America.
Teodrose Fikre
Evoking Muckrakers: Hannah Giorgis’s Devastating Critique of Senator Kamala Harris
16 Jan 2019
Kamala Harris’s memoir reads nothing like her actual record of locking up the poor and giving impunity to the rich.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Corporate and Banking Interests Profit from Desecration of Black Maryland Graveyard
16 Jan 2019
Truth rises from the graves of Black ancestors in a wealthy Maryland county.
Netfa Freeman
John Bolton Says He Wants to Protect Africa from “Predatory” Chinese Behavior, But What About Washington’s?
16 Jan 2019
Chinese investment may come with strings attached, but Africa deserves an alternative to U.S.-led neoliberalism and militarization.
Norman Richmond aka Jalali
Another Look At Martin Luther King Jr.
16 Jan 2019
Dr King was a radical, a democratic socialist who saw economic transformation and social justice as inseparable.