African America

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Activists Owe No Apology for Solidarity with Palestinians
07 Sep 2016
by Darializa Avila Chevalier and Khury Petersen-Smith The Movement for Black Lives has voiced its unequivocal opposition to Israel’s genocidal policies in Palestine, prompting harsh attacks from…
Jon Jeter
ESPN’S Journal of Black Respectability Politics
07 Sep 2016
by Jon Jeter Michael Eric Dyson is up to his corporate tricks, this time in ESPN’s black-oriented web site The Undefeated. Dyson personifies the surrender of the Black middle class, in total synch…
Black Agenda Report for Week of September 7, 2016
05 Sep 2016
20th Anniversary of Clinton’s War Against the Poor It’s been 20 years since President Bill Clinton and the U.S. Congress destroyed “welfare as we knew it” by replacing Aid to Families with Dependent…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Why Black Self-Determination Matters
01 Sep 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Malcolm X correctly anticipated that narrowly conceived “civil rights” could ultimately be curtailed. He therefore urged Black people to demand their human right to…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Obama Legacy Part IX: The Highest Expression of Counter Insurgency
31 Aug 2016
by Danny Haiphong After smashing the Black Liberation Movement, the U.S. ruling class” proceeded “to bury Black politics in the graveyard of the Democratic Party.” They met with great success in…
Robin D.G. Kelley
What Does Black Lives Matter Want?
31 Aug 2016
by Robin D.G. Kelley “A Vision for Black Lives” is a plan for ending structural racism, saving the planet, and transforming the entire nation—not just black lives,” writes the author, a noted Black…
Black Agenda Report for Week of August 29, 2016
29 Aug 2016
Rights Lawyers Target Arkansas Debtors Prison The district court in Sherwood, Arkansas, is in gross violation of a 1983 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that it is unconstitutional to imprison …
Katrina and Other Catastrophes
24 Aug 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The Lords of Capital learned a great deal from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. They learned that the Black Misleadership Class was…
Bryan K. Bullock
Assuming the Risk of Blackness
24 Aug 2016
by Bryan K. Bullock The purported “risks” that police voluntarily take are transferred to their Black and brown victims, who have no practical protections. Legal settlements do not balance the…
Mumia Abu Jamal
Black August
24 Aug 2016
by Mumia Abu-Jamal August is a month to assess and build upon the legacy of Black people’s resistance to the armed repression of the U.S. state and its agents. The author, the nation’s best known…