US Politics

Black Agenda Radio for Week of Aug 3, 2015
04 Aug 2015
Predator Cops Fill Graveyards U.S. police killed 412 people in 1976, 333 in 1984, and 385 in 1990, wrote Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, in an essay now republished for…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Africa Hypocrisy
29 Jul 2015
By BAR editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley The president's visit to East Africa has been the occasion for the same kind of hypocritical finger pointing Barack Obama usually reserves for…
NetRoots Nation Confrontation Wasn't About #BlackLivesMatter At All
24 Jul 2015
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon NetRootsNation is a gathering for paid and wannabe paid Democratic party activists, including the ostensibly non-partisan ones.…
Paul Street
Bernie Out of the Closet: Sanders’ Longstanding Deal with the Democrats
22 Jul 2015
by Paul Street Bernie may call himself a socialist, but since his terms as mayor of Burlington VT in the 1980s, the state's Democrats have never run anybody against him. In return "socialist"…
Why Bill Clinton's Apology and Barack Obama's Prison Drive-By, Token Clemencies Are Cynical Election Year Posturing
17 Jul 2015
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Six and a half years into his presidency, Barack Obama has discovered black mass incarceration. He's shocked, visits a federal…
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Ph.D and Kevin Berend
Holder’s Legacy: Corporate Criminals Too Big to Jail But Mass Incarceration, Gentrification and Protection of Killer Cops for Black Folks – Part II
15 Jul 2015
by Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, editor and columnist Eric Holder has been praised as a “civil rights”-oriented attorney general, but the only rights he has championed are those of the bankers, white…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
My Wise Country Cousin on Blak Folk an de 8 yr Blues…
15 Jul 2015
by BAR's poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner With the clock ticking down on Barack Obama's presidency, black America discovers it was a marriage of conveninece. And not ours.
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 13, 2015
14 Jul 2015
Austerity Rendering Detroit Unfit for Habitation A serious fire raged out control due to chronic low water pressure in Detroit, despite the majority Black city’s location in one of the world’s major…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Self Determination Matters
09 Jul 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford After two generations of political decay, Black people finally realize they “need to find ways to protect themselves from the police agencies of the Mass Black…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Greece, Debt and Democracy
08 Jul 2015
By BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley