US Politics

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
#BlackLivesMatter and the Democrats: How Disruption Can Lead to Collaboration
13 Aug 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The #Black Lives Matter organization may believe that it is confronting, rather than collaborating with, the Democratic Party, by disrupting candidates’ speeches.…
Paul Street
Posing as the Great Emancipator: Obama’s Prison-Posturing is Nothing New
12 Aug 2015
by Paul Street President Obama likes to give the impression that he is shocked and surprised by the horrors of the U.S. penal system. But the author knew the president back in the day, in Chicago,…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
August 144 hours
12 Aug 2015
by BAR poet in residence Raymond "Nat" Turner Our poet recalls the living memory of the Watts LA uprising a half century ago this week
Alemayehu G Mariam
Barack Obama, Tell the Truth About Ethiopia!
12 Aug 2015
Alemayehu G. Mariam Last month, President Obama declared that Ethiopia has a “democratically elected government.” That is the country where, in May elections, the ruling party won all the 547 seats…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Where's the #BlackLivesMatter Critique of the Black Misleadership Class, or Obama or Hillary?
06 Aug 2015
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon If #BlackLivesMatter is a movement, just what does that mean? Obama's 2008 campaign said it was “the movement” too. If modern movements are indistinguishable…
Pretty Words, Ugly Actions: The Obama Legacy on Climate Change
05 Aug 2015
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Apart from the times he called himself the president of “clean coal”, President Obama always talked a better climate change game than his Republican…
Paul Street
Bernie Sanders’ Top Five Race Problems: The Unbearable Whiteness of Nominal Nordic Socialism
04 Aug 2015
by Paul Street
Black Agenda Radio for Week of Aug 3, 2015
04 Aug 2015
Predator Cops Fill Graveyards U.S. police killed 412 people in 1976, 333 in 1984, and 385 in 1990, wrote Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, in an essay now republished for…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Africa Hypocrisy
29 Jul 2015
By BAR editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley The president's visit to East Africa has been the occasion for the same kind of hypocritical finger pointing Barack Obama usually reserves for…
NetRoots Nation Confrontation Wasn't About #BlackLivesMatter At All
24 Jul 2015
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon NetRootsNation is a gathering for paid and wannabe paid Democratic party activists, including the ostensibly non-partisan ones.…