US Politics

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Bernie Sanders Puts Forward a Program That Could Split the Democratic Party
28 Nov 2018
Bernie Sanders has opened his 2020 campaign with a 10-point program that could bust the Democratic Party wide open – which would be best thing Bernie could do for the world.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Democrats Win and Black People Lose
28 Nov 2018
If the Democrats were a true political party Nancy Pelosi’s failures would have taken her out of the running for any leadership position.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Ocasio-Cortez, Nancy Pelosi, and the Con of Diversity
28 Nov 2018
Poor people, especially poor Black Americans, cannot eat from or survive off “diversity.”
Robert Fantina
How the US Creates ‘Sh*thole’ Countries
27 Nov 2018
A new collection of essays, edited by former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, clearly shows that it is the U.S. that is largely responsible for the poverty and suffering in these very nations.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Abolition Spotlight Editor
BAR Abolition Spotlight: Derecka Purnell
27 Nov 2018
Police abolitionists “want a society that works to eliminate harm and promote liberation and self-determination.”
Don Fitz
Cuba's First Military Doctors (Part 1)
27 Nov 2018
Revolutionary Cuba decided in the Sixties “that the best defense for the island would be an international offense” -- in Africa.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Russiagate is “The Big Lie”
27 Nov 2018
With the CIA on point, U.S. militarists are implementing Joseph Goebbel’s formula to reignite the Cold War.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia on the Twilight of Empire
26 Nov 2018
The US became the world’s sole superpower “without a mask,” said the nation’s best known political prisoner.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Policing is More Than Clubs and Guns
26 Nov 2018
For Black people, policing is spread “across multiple state institutions,” including social welfare agency surveillance and school-to-prison pipelines, “and we can trace that history back to slaver
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Obama Militarily Occupied Africa
26 Nov 2018
“In the 8 years that Barack Obama was president, “AFRICOM went from 3 military bases to 84 bases” on the continent, said Paul Pumphrey, co-founder of Friends of Congo, speaking at