US Politics

Igor Derysh
Over 70 Percent of Jobless Americans Didn’t Receive March Unemployment Benefits
06 May 2020
The problem is even worse in Southeastern states like Florida, where fewer than 8% of applicants received benefits.
Milton G. Allimadi
Tribute to My Beloved Sister Barbara Allimadi – Fighter for Justice in Uganda
06 May 2020
We owe it to Barbara to march those extra miles and create a new Uganda. “She was arrested multiple times for leading protests against the regime.”
Peter Young
Overcrowded DRC Prisons 'Ticking Time-Bomb' for COVID-19 Pandemic
06 May 2020
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s main prisons are filled at 432 percent on average, making them some of the most overcrowded in the world.
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Venezuela Thwarts Invasion Attempt by Mercenaries
06 May 2020
Venezuelan officials reported that a group of mercenaries attempted to invade the country on Sunday but were stopped by the country’s army and police.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 4, 2020
04 May 2020
Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 4, 2020 Corporate Media Largely Decide Which Black Lives Matter
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Ex-Felons Are Slow to Vouch for Other Former Offenders
04 May 2020
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, Black former offenders “need to see strong evidence" that the formerly incarcerated person has really changed, said Sandra Susan Smith, a
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Dubois’ Views on “Veil” of Blackness Explains White Suburban Micro-Aggressions
04 May 2020
Upscale Black mothers who moved to Detroit’s white suburbs in search of better schools for their kids are suffering “battle fatigue” from constant struggles with their neighbors, according to
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Corporate Media Largely Decide Which Black Lives Matter
04 May 2020
A study by sociology professor Alicia Simmons, of Colgate University, found that corporate media journalists sometimes adopt an adversarial relationship with local police, but
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Late-Stage Racial Capitalism Opened the Door to the Killer Virus
30 Apr 2020
The white settler state always inflicts excessive mortality on racially subject peoples, and capitalism inflicts death on large sections of its disproportionately non-white working class and poor.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Fighting COVID-19 with Mass Action and a People’s Strike
29 Apr 2020
The people’s mass fightback against the system that failed to protect them from the coronavirus and corporate predators begins May 1.