US Politics

Gustavus Griffin
Freddie Gray and Why the Wealth of Sports Franchises Matter
06 Jan 2021
A significant portion of sports franchise wealth can be traced directly to the oppression and displacement of Black and Brown bodies.
Akilah Johnson and Nina Martin
How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men
06 Jan 2021
To understand why COVID-19 killed so many young Black men, you need to know the legend of John Henry. “Covid-19 is a new gear in an old machine.”
Robin D.G. Kelley
The Freedom Struggle Is a Labor Struggle, Then and Now
06 Jan 2021
Black labor militants, many of whom were Communists, were the key to building the CIO in the South.
Linda Burnham
The Activist Roots of Black Feminist Theory
06 Jan 2021
Intersection theory insists on the simultaneity of condition, the both/and of Black women’s oppression.
John Ross and Vijay Prashad
China and US relations in Latin America
06 Jan 2021
China will find itself engaged in an international struggle between its “win-win” approach to international policy and the US’s attempted “anti-China” policy.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 4, 2021
05 Jan 2021
Pandemic Reveals Crisis of US Imperialism
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
AFRICOM Causes Humanitarian Crises on Two Continents
05 Jan 2021
Under the guise of helping fight the Boko Haram, the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) has helped the French-speaking West African government of Cameroon wage war against its English-speaking popula
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Only a “Transformational” Electoral Politics is Useful
05 Jan 2021
Ajamu Baraka, national organizer of the Black Alliance for Peace and 2016 Green Party vice presidential candidate, said electoral politics should be treated as a “strategic questio
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Pandemic Reveals Crisis of US Imperialism
05 Jan 2021
“I think what we are looking at is a severely wounded, crippled US imperialism as the chief hegemon of world capitalism,” said Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black Is Back Coalit
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
South African Police More Lethal Than US Cops
05 Jan 2021
“South African police kill between two and three times as many people as US police do, per capita,” said Paul Clarke, a doctoral candidate in African and American Studies who has d