US Politics

Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Why We Must Protect the World from the United States
17 Jan 2018
“For oppressed nations and peoples of the world, the U.S.
Daniel Zamora
The Case Against a Basic Income
17 Jan 2018
“If the payment isn’t high enough to let people to refuse work, UBI might push wages down and create more “bullshit jobs.”
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Settler Colonialism and the Second Amendment
17 Jan 2018
“The violent appropriation of Native land by white settlers was seen as an individual right in the Second Amendment of the U.S.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Blacks Mark New Orleans’ 300th Birthday
16 Jan 2018
Dr Clyde Robertson will oversee three days of events marking three centuries of Black experience in New Orleans, beginning January 18.
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Mumia: 36 Years Behind Bars
16 Jan 2018
The nation’s best known political prisoner is locked in a complex legal battle that might overturn his 1982 conviction in the death of a Philadelphia cop.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Peace Requires Social Transformation
16 Jan 2018
The peace movement “must recognize that war is an instrument of class rule, and that we have to overthrow this enemy and build and new society, on a new basis,” said Ajamu Baraka,
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
MLK vs. Black Misleadership Class
16 Jan 2018
Reigniting Dr Martin Luther King’s movement against the “triple evils” of racism, militarism and materialism “requires a very tough ideological struggle against the neoliberal elite, including thos
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Weaponized Words: Are the Black Misleadership Class Race Traitors or Just Following Their Own Class Interests?
11 Jan 2018
My comrade and colleague Glen Ford observed last month that our words here at Black Agenda Report are or ought to be weapons. He's right.
Kali Akuno , Gyasi Williams
Up Against the Fabrication Divide
10 Jan 2018
The Third Digital Revolution[1], a revolution in cyber-physical integration and personal fabrication, is changing the world, and changing humanity, culturally an
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Trump Love Endures
10 Jan 2018
The recently published book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House is an inside account of the Donald Trump campaign and presidency.