US Politics

Seattle Urban League Leader to Run Against Socialist Seattle City Council Member. Why?
19 Mar 2015
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Bruce A. Dixon Like the NAACP, the NAN and other corporate funded dinosaur civil rights outfits, the National Urban League mostly says and does what its wealthy…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Depravity at the Highest Level: Obama Prepares the Boil from Selma – PART II and Black Code Alert
19 Mar 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Kevin Berends The Obama administration has no intention of tampering with police immunity from prosecution for the slaughter of Black people…
Ajamu Nangwaya
Exuberant Irrationality Driving Afrikan-Canadians’ Support for Deputy Police Chiefs
19 Mar 2015
by Ajamu Nangwaya The late Maya Angelou supported Clarence Thomas for U.S. Supreme Court Justice, because he’s Black. Afro-Canadians are making the same mistake in endorsing two Black cops for police…
George Joseph and John Tarleton
Testing Public Education to Death in New York
19 Mar 2015
by George Joseph and John Tarleton The real teaching crisis in New York is “the failure to keep experienced and highly capable teachers and allow them to do their jobs.” The exodus of veteran…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
No Justice, No Peace, Without Black Community Control of Police
19 Mar 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Police, prosecutors, politicians and corporate propagandists seized on the shooting of two cops in Ferguson, to claim that the Black Lives Matter movement had…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Obama’s Selma Song: America Is Not Racist – It’s Just Ferguson
12 Mar 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford No matter how many Black people are shot down in the streets by cops, no matter how far Black people fall in the relative to whites in the economy, Barack Obama has…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Final Insult to Michael Brown
11 Mar 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Why Isn't Sen. Kirk's “Chicago Will Become Detroit” Threat National News?
11 Mar 2015
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Chicago could become Detroit, an Illinois Senator threatened on March 2, if Chicago fails to re-elect Rahm Emanuel. Staring down this threat tells us a…
Obama, at War on Three Continents, Threatens Venezuela
11 Mar 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford No sooner does Obama break the ice with Cuban, than he turns up the imperial heat on Venezuela, the other openly socialist government in…
Paul Street
Beyond Twelve Years a Slave
11 Mar 2015
by Paul Street At the heart of American history lies an essential truth: the U.S. became an economic superpower based on the super-exploitation of Black slaves, to whom it owes reparations. In his…