US Politics

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Free All Political Prisoners Including Julian Assange
18 Feb 2020
Julian Assange must be set free, like all the other political prisoners of US Empire,” said BAR executive editor Glen Ford.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Abolish Schooling As We Know It
18 Feb 2020
Public schools in Black America are part of the mass incarceration system, said David Stovall, a professor of African American Studies and Criminology at the University of Ill
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
US Must Build Housing on a Bigger Scale than the New Deal
18 Feb 2020
Organizer Tara Raghuveer, whose Kansas City Tenants group won passage of a Tenants Bill of Rights, said “One of our central demands is to return to treating housing as a publi
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Free All Political Prisoners –- Including Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
13 Feb 2020
Julian Assange and his protégés have made common cause with Black revolutionaries in their zeal to lay bare the dictatorial nature of the omni-pervasive national security state and the sheer,
Ed Pilkington
Chuck Sims Africa Freed: Final Jailed Move 9 Member Released From Prison
12 Feb 2020
The last of Philadelphia’s most besieged, and heroic, Black political families is released, after a 42-year ordeal.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Kobe, Impeachment and the Coronavirus: A Study on the Dangers of White Liberal Fragility
12 Feb 2020
White liberalism is not a kinder, gentler form of white supremacy, or a lesser evil to the more explicit racism of Trump and his base.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Lives Over Luxury: The Poor People’s Army Plans to March on the DNC
12 Feb 2020
The founder of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign invites everyone to join them in a march against the DNC if it steals the presidential nomination.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Rush to judgement?
12 Feb 2020
Ain’t it good to know that up’s still down; bad’s still good; black’s white; Slavers still heroes—And the Drone Ranger received a Peace Prize?
Walter Johnson
American Bottom
12 Feb 2020
One of the poorest towns in the nation, nearly all-Black Centreville, Illinois, floods with raw sewage every time it rains.
Adofo Minka
Prison Reform and the State: The Impending Confrontation in Mississippi
12 Feb 2020
The recent prison reform rallies at the Mississippi Capitol were more akin to being for a Middle Passage with more efficient plumbing.