US Politics

Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The Story of Charlottesville was Written in Blood in the Ukraine
16 Aug 2017
Some of the neo-Nazis President Obama helped put in power in Ukraine carried Confederate flags. U.S. society has been moving rightward for decades -- and pulling much of Europe with it.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 15, 2017
16 Aug 2017
Black Control of the Police is a Democratic Right
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Control of the Police is a Democratic Right
16 Aug 2017
The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations held its annual conference in Chicago, highlighting its 19-point National Black Political Agenda for Self-Determination.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Chicago Politicians are “in the Mayor’s Pocket”
16 Aug 2017
Frank Chapman is part of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. His organization is pushing a measure to take “all the power away from the mayor, away from the independ
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Flipping the Script on the NYPD
16 Aug 2017
When the New York City Police Department held a community-oriented “Night Out Against Crime” in The Bronx, activists with the Freedom Cities movement staged a “Night of Safety and Liberation” count
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Political Scientist Rejects Organizing Based on “Purely Ethnic Affinity”
16 Aug 2017
Cedric Johnson, a political scientist and associate professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago, has no confidence in the long term effectiveness of organizing ba
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia: Trump’s America Shows Its Nasty Butt
16 Aug 2017
The events in Charlottesville, Virginia, reveal the raw racism endemic to the United States, said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, in an essay for Prison Radio.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Indecency of the Black Misleadership Class
09 Aug 2017
If Congresswoman Barbara Lee is among the best that the Black political class has to offer -- which she is -- then that class is “wholly unfit to guide the politics of 40 million people.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Defeat of American Workers
09 Aug 2017
Capital is winning every round of the class war. Nissan scared Mississippi auto workers out of joining a union, and Foxconn extorted $3 billion to locate a plant in Wisconsin. Republicans cheered.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Barbara Lee and Tulsi Gabbard Side with War Party on Sanctions
09 Aug 2017
The Democrats’ two leading congressional dissidents have finally surrendered, now that the party has “taken the lead in the project of endless war.” U.S.