African America

Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
May 19th Versus Memorial Day in the Battle of Ideas
03 Jun 2015
by Danny Haiphong Rather than memorialize U.S. imperial wars, we should mark the birthdays and legacies of Malcolm X, who “strongly condemned US imperialism's invasion of Vietnam,” Yuri Kochiyama,…
Bill Quigley
40 Reasons Our Jails and Prisons Are Full of Black and Poor People
03 Jun 2015
by Bill Quigley There are many paths to prison in the United States, the undisputed world leader in incarceration. The process begins with hyper-surveillance that can last a lifetime. “Not…
I'm a Black Ex-Cop, and This is the Real Truth About Race and Policing
03 Jun 2015
by Reddit Hudson Black cops are keenly aware that racism permeates policing in the United States. “The reality of police abuse is not limited to a number of ‘very small incidents’ that have…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 1, 2015
02 Jun 2015
A Global System of Oppression Black Americans’ problems with the police are part of a global conflict, said Phillip Agnew, of the Dream Defenders, the youthful activist organization that emerged…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Cops Continued “Coon Huntin’” in Cleveland Despite 2004 Federal Consent Decree
27 May 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford No sooner had a Cleveland judge acquitted the only cop charged in the “mass firing squad execution” of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams, than the Feds announced…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Gentrification and the Death of Black Communities
27 May 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Gentrification – the displacement of Black and brown urban residents by more affluent whites – is a function of the same forces that emptied the…
Obama Invokes U.S. Civil Rights Movement to Defend Israel
27 May 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford What should one expect when the First Black President of the world’s first apartheid state attempts to defend Israel, the planet’s last…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Holder’s Legacy: Corporations Too Big to Jail, Mass Incarceration, Gentrification and Protection of Killer Cops
27 May 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The first Black U.S. Attorney General, like the president who appointed him, entered office with high expectations among Black folks. “We now…
Jeffrey B. Perry
On the 132nd Anniversary of Pioneering Black Radical Hubert Henry Harrison's Birth...
29 Apr 2015
by Jeffrey B. Perry The same folks who'd have us believe politics is just Republicans and Democrats, and that the current black political class is the culmination of black history have tried to erase…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Imperialism's Policy of Mass Murder and the Black Panther Party's Analysis of Survival
15 Apr 2015
by Danny Haiphong