US Politics

Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Organizing 201: Ocasio-Cortez Campaign Lays Organizing Benchmark -- 120,000 Phone Calls
26 Jul 2018
This is Bruce Dixon from Black Agenda Report with the latest in our series about organizing, which for reference sake we’ll call the 200 series.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Shaun King is “All In” with the FBI and CIA
25 Jul 2018
“Grand juries that routinely fail to indict killer cops become paragons of justice and virtue in King’s mind when manipulated to indict Russians.”
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
High Crimes and Misdemeanors – Not by Trump but Obama and Democrats
25 Jul 2018
“When Trump met with the arch-enemy Vladimir Putin in Helsinki and didn’t declare war on Russia some of the loudest denunciations came from Black liberals.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Blacks Need To Stop Calling the Enemy “We” and “Us”
25 Jul 2018
“The FBI that crushed the liberation movement is now viewed favorably in the mistaken belief that the enemy of Trump must be a friend.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Strange Days Indeed
25 Jul 2018
“Whichever party is in power will bait the Bear, then say we have to expand domestic surveillance, the military budget, and the empire of bases.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Democratic Party Politics 101 with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Corporate Media
25 Jul 2018
“Democrats have firmly implanted themselves on the side of Wall Street and its militarist corporate partners.”
Paul Street
Same Old Obama: The First Black Presidential Library and Gentrification on Chicago’s South Side
25 Jul 2018
“Real estate interests are licking their chops over ‘development’ opportunities linked to the Obama Center’s construction.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Fred Moten’s “consent not to be a single being”
25 Jul 2018
“We have lived, and continue to live, in a climate that doesn’t support life.”
Dr. Kweli Nzito
Trump’s Protection Racket Swamps Africa
25 Jul 2018
“Enormous sacrifices made in the protracted and often brutal anti-colonial resistance wars are now coming to naught.”
Salvador Rangel
“These Are Not Our Kids”: The Racial Capitalism of Caging Children at the Border
25 Jul 2018
“The Trump administration takes every opportunity to divert attention from the fact that there are a lot of people suffering in poverty in the richest country in the world.”