African America

Chris Hedges
The New Slave Revolt
12 Oct 2016
by Chris Hedges Severe state repression and a near-total press blackout make it impossible to determine how many prisoners are continuing the national work strike that began on September 9th. The…
Jamie Kalven
Watch Your Back: How Chicago Cops Enforce Their Code of Silence
12 Oct 2016
by Jamie Kalven The conventional wisdom is that Chicago’s Blue Code of Silence operates at the lower ranks, on the cop-to-cop level, and has now been exposed to the public glare. But the weight…
Black Agenda Report for Week of Oct 3, 2016
10 Oct 2016
Reparations a Necessity to Correct America’s Crimes The United Nations panel of experts that blasted the U.S. for its “legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation,…
Glen Ford with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor
CBC Report Card 2016: Why the Congressional Black Caucus Can’t Lead Black America
06 Oct 2016
by Glen Ford with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor The 41 full-voting Black Democratic members of the U.S. House scored higher than last year on the new CBC Monitor Report Card, but that’s mostly…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Ignoring Angela Davis
04 Oct 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley How low the icon has fallen. Angela Davis diminished herself and denounced her own history when she endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 and in 2012,…
Anealla Safdar
Man Who Filmed Eric Garner's Death Begins Prison Term
04 Oct 2016
by Anealla Safdar The NYPD did not forgive Ramsey Orta for showing the world how cops choked the life out of Eric Garner. “After filming Garner's death, he was increasingly harassed and targeted by…
Bill Quigley
Eighteen Examples of Racism in Criminal Legal System
04 Oct 2016
by Bill Quigley How may we imprison you? Let us count the ways. The U.S. criminal justice system seems designed primarily for one purpose: “to incarcerate as many black and brown people as…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
U.S. Cops Kill Unarmed African; U.S. Media Mangle His Homeland’s History
04 Oct 2016
by Ann Garrison Police in El Cajon, California, answered Alfred Olongo’s sister’s call for help for her disturbed, but unarmed, brother -- and promptly shot him dead. Learning that Olongo was a…
Black Agenda Report for Week of October 3, 2016
03 Oct 2016
Clinton is Far More Anti-Crime Than Pro-Justice When Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed over stop-and-frisk at their first televised debate, Clinton only weakly addressed “the idea of racial…
Paul Street
The Roots are in the System: Charlotte and Beyond
28 Sep 2016
by Paul Street Police violence provides the “spark” that draws crowds instantly to the streets, but apartheid and inequality are the “underlying tinder that fuels the fires of rage across Black…