US Politics

Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Michelle Obama Slanders Black Men in Her Book, Adds to the Obama Family’s Long Anti-Black Tradition
19 Dec 2018
The Obamas are cashing in on their lifelong project to further the destruction of Black people, while blaming the victim.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
The People v. The Information Monopolies: Case Continued
19 Dec 2018
Democrats failed to get enough votes to repeal the FCC’s undoing of net neutrality, but there’s still time to change some member’s votes.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Julia Jordan-Zachery’s“Shadow Bodies“and Sabine Broeck’s “Gender and the Abjection of Blackness”
19 Dec 2018
Our authors examine how white feminism became “junior partner to enslavist capitalist patriarchy,” and how do we “resist silences that limit the span of democracy?”
Ellen Brown
This Radical Plan to Fund the ‘Green New Deal’ Just Might Work
19 Dec 2018
The US could finance a “Green” New Deal in the same way that it paid for the first New Deal, during the Depression – with public “banking” institutions.
Wilmer J. Leon III
“Green Book” – Not Our Story; His-Story, Their Fiction
19 Dec 2018
Hollywood does not hesitate to totally fictionalize, diminish and malign a Black historical figure, Dr Don Shirley, for its own white supremacist purposes.
Teodrose Fikre
Bigoted Paternalism Behind “Russians Targeted African-Americans” NY Times Article
19 Dec 2018
The Russiagate propagandists sound like the segregationists of yesteryear, warning of “outside agitators” trying to “stir up the Nigras.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of December 17, 2018
18 Dec 2018
Keisha Lindsay: Questions about black all male schools; Chris Duran & Concerned 44 demand reform of African Studies at Seton Hal; Zayid Muhammad of Newark Concerned Communites on documenting po
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
U.S. Presidents Kill for Empire
17 Dec 2018
US presidents may seem different from one another, in terms of rhetoric, “but they all have in common being committed to empire,” said Anthony DiMaggio,a political scientist a
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Report Documents Police Use of Force in New Jersey
17 Dec 2018
Zayid Muhammad, of Newark Communities for Accountable Policing, was pleasantly surprised at the scope of a NJ Advanced Media report on police use of force in every city and town in
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Seton Hall Students Will Renew Push on Africana Studies
17 Dec 2018
Students with the Concerned 44 movement, representing the 44 percent of students that are ethnic or gender minorities, plan to renew their protests after the holidays at Seton Hall University, said