US Politics

Auditi Guha
New Study Shows Flint Water Affects Baby Weight
13 Dec 2017
“It was a very sharp reduction in birth weight.”
Harvey Wasserman
Warring Visions of Puerto Rico's Future
13 Dec 2017
“This is an opportunity to make microgrids in Puerto Rico so they can be sustained in different areas.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of December 11, 201
13 Dec 2017
Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 11, 2017 Universities Nurtured Ideology of Slavery
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia Thanks His Supporters
12 Dec 2017
Activists gathered in Philadelphia to march, attend teach-ins and demand freedom for Mumia Abu Jamal, who has spent 35 years behind bars in the death of a policeman.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
International Commission Probes U.S. Police Impunity
12 Dec 2017
Maria Hamilton, mother of Dontre Hamilton, a mentally challenged young Black man who died in a hail of Milwaukee police gunfire in 2014, was among those that testified at hearings
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Puerto Rico Crippled Before Hurricane Hit
12 Dec 2017
Harsh austerity measures imposed by a federal financial oversight board set Puerto Rico up for disaster, said Lara Merling, a researcher for the Washington-based Center for Economi
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Blacks, War and the Phony “Resistance”
07 Dec 2017
“The Democrats are ‘all in’ for the Pentagon, including a majority of the Congressional Black Caucus.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Barbuda and Disaster Capitalism
06 Dec 2017
“Barbudans are rightly suspicious that ultimately their paradise of equality for all will be taken away in favor of capitalist predation.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Intercept Attacks WikiLeaks on Behalf of Democrats
06 Dec 2017
“WikiLeaks has done humanity a service by exposing the Democratic Party as but another organ of the rich.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor , Bénédicte Kumbi Ndjoko
Rwandan President Paul Kagame is Not Papa Africa Saving Slaves
06 Dec 2017
“Migrants deported from Israel to Rwanda in 2014 and 2015 have been horrifically abused and trafficked back to the Mediterranean.”