US Politics

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
U.S. Prisoners Need Some Love
17 Oct 2017
In an essay for Prison Radio, Charles Diggs, an inmate at Pennsylvania’s Graterford state prison, said U.S.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Russiagate: The Lie Implodes
11 Oct 2017
The alleged “war” against U.S. “democracy” turns out to have been a cheap click-bait hustle.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The FBI Targets Black “Ideology”
11 Oct 2017
“It is a catch-all for blanket repression of Black activism of any kind.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: True Conspiracies
11 Oct 2017
“A distracted and hypnotized public won’t ask questions, make demands, or build movements.”
Bryan K. Bullock
Who’s Hacking Who? Americans, Not Russians, Disenfranchise Millions of Blacks
11 Oct 2017
“The black vote has been ‘hacked’ and ‘interfered’ with for decades by both parties and is
Ken Morgan
Blacks, Las Vegas, and Gun Control
11 Oct 2017
“Black ex-soldiers and others defended their neighborhoods in America’s numerous race wars.”
M. Lee Stone
Lynching and Anti-Lynching: Art and Politics in the 1930s
11 Oct 2017
“There were nearly 5,000 persons lynched from 1882 through 1965.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia Legal Move in Limbo
10 Oct 2017
Supporters of Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, fear a Pennsylvania judge may be backing away from his order that the Philadelphia district attorney’s office turn over al
The Real News Network
Glen Ford: Backward Black Congresswoman Demands Facebook Censor the Left Because Russia?
06 Oct 2017
AARON MATÉ: It's The Real News. I'm Aaron Maté. Facebook is giving Congress the 3,000 ads it says were likely bought by Russian linked accounts to influence the 2016 election.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Las Vegas: How White Rights, Neoliberal Isolation and a Little Incompetence Killed 59 or 60 People This Week
05 Oct 2017
Gun rights in the US are mainly white rights. It’s always been that way, sort of baked into the North American experience.