African America

Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: No Tears for John Lewis
18 Jan 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley John Lewis has parlayed his 1965 beating at the hands of Alabama police into a phony sainthood, and “now exemplifies everything that is wrong…
Black Lives Matter Wants to #ReclaimMLK’s Radical Legacy
18 Jan 2017
by TeleSUR Several Black organizations across the U.S. have launched a campaign to reject the mainstream image of Martin Luther King, Jr., which they call “capitalist revisionism.” Dr. King “became…
Report: Chicago Police Use Excessive Force
18 Jan 2017
by German Lopez The long-awaited U.S. Justice Department report on Chicago police behavior in Black and brown communities shows cops frequently abuse their monopoly on the use of lethal force, and…
Young Black Men Again Faced Highest Rate of US Police Killings in 2016
18 Jan 2017
by Jon Swaine and Ciara McCarthy The number of unarmed people fatally shot by police in the U.S. declined last year, according to data compiled by The Guardian newspaper, but young Black men remain…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 16, 2017
17 Jan 2017
The Democrats: Serving the One Percent, Blaming the Russians The Democrats are using the Russians as a scapegoat to avoid confronting “the rightwing Wall Street-captive party that they’ve become,”…
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Black Awakening, Class Rebellion
11 Jan 2017
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and George Ciccariello-Maher “The Black movement has been and will continue to be the foundation for the emergence of other liberation movements” in the U.S., says Keeanga…
Mark P. Fancher
The New Black Maroons to America: “We Quit!”
11 Jan 2017
by Mark P. Fancher Just as slave runaways made common cause with Native Americans in resistance to white settlers, U.S. Blacks should reciprocate the solidarity offered by Cuba, Venezuela and…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 9, 2017
10 Jan 2017
Rally in DC for Black Self-Determination Self-determination is the “missing ingredient” in contemporary Black politics, said Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black is Back Coalition for Social…
Obama’s Pardons Distract from the Horror of Mass Black Incarceration
03 Jan 2017
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Americans imprison big, but they pardon very small. President Obama set a record by giving clemency to 1/2000th of the 2.3million U.S.…
Dana Bazelon
This Cruel New Policy Makes It Near Impossible for Kids to See Their Incarcerated Parents
29 Dec 2016
by Dana Bazelon Adding yet another cruelty to the world’s most monstrous system of mass incarceration, federal prison officials restrict visitation to immediate family members. Yet, relatively few…