US Politics

Mark P. Fancher
Rebellion on the NFL Plantation
15 Aug 2018
“An alternative league would be the antithesis of the NFL and also take its cue from ‘Bingo Long’s Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings.’”
Ken Morgan
Black Workers and Immigrants: Borrow a Page from Marx
15 Aug 2018
“Marx blamed the rulers of colonialism and those that exploited Irish workers for lower wages when they got to England, and not the exploited Irish worker.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Robyn Spencer’s “The Revolution Has Come”
15 Aug 2018
“The Panthers spoke out about the ravages of capitalism and aligned themselves with anti-imperialist and anti-colonial forces from Vietnam to South Africa to Palestine.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Stephen Dillon’s “Fugitive Life”
15 Aug 2018
“Hundreds of activists in the 1970s left behind families, friends, jobs, and their identities in order to disappear into the underground.”
Nellie Bailiey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, week of August 13, 2018
14 Aug 2018
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Mumia Supporters Gear Up for Hearing
14 Aug 2018
Mumia Abu Jamal supporters need to converge on Philadelphia in large numbers, on August 30, for hearings on Abu Jamal’s contention that judicial bias tainted his trial process, said Johanna
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Capitalism Can’t Fix Racial Wealth Gap
14 Aug 2018
Black banks are useful and should be supported, but only some form of reparations can confront the disastrous Black economic condition, said Mehrsa Baradaran, author of “The Color
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Lies of American Exceptionalism
14 Aug 2018
Corporate media claim the economy is “booming” even though “we still don’t have as many jobs as existed” before the 2008 crash, said BAR contributor Danny Haiphong, one of the auth
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
When the Resistance is Really the Assistance
09 Aug 2018
We all learned in school that some countries have a single governing party. If you’re not in that party, you can’t be part of the government.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Martial Law By Other Means: Corporate Strangulation of Dissent
09 Aug 2018
“The ‘hate speech’ trick, in practice, rewards Black people’s occupiers and abusers (the police) and renders voices of protest illegitimate and mute.”