US Politics

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 28, 2020
29 Dec 2020
South African Police More Lethal Than US Cops
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Corporate Baseball’s “Feeble” Gesture to Negro Leagues
29 Dec 2020
Major League Baseball’s recent moves to recognize the contributions of the Negro league teams they once excluded amount to only “the beginning stages of any kind of restitutive or reparative justic
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Capitalism + Covid-19 = Mass Death in US
29 Dec 2020
“The US health system has failed utterly and completely to protect the people” in this country, said veteran activist Sara Flounders, co-editor with Lee Siu Hin of the new, 50-writ
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
South African Police More Lethal Than US Cops
29 Dec 2020
“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
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 21, 2020
22 Dec 2020
Stokely Carmichael’s Black Power Meets African Liberation
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Sex was Central to Dutch West Indies Anti-Colonial Politics
22 Dec 2020
Sexual issues were loudly debated among anti-colonial activists in the Dutch Caribbean colonies of Curaçao and Aruba, said Chelsea Shields, a history professor at the City Universi
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
“Colonial Logics” Remained for Black Women in “Liberated” Zimbabwe
22 Dec 2020
Black women “posed a problem” for the Black government that replaced white rule in Zimbabwe, because their bodies were thought to “disturb urban space,” said Rudo Mudiwa, a PhD in
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Stokely Carmichael’s Black Power Meets African Liberation
22 Dec 2020
In the political hotbed that was Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 1967, US Black Power advocate Stokely Carmichael, who had not yet changed his name to Kwame Ture, made both friends and enemies among th
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
You Can’t Shame the Shameless Black Misleadership Class
17 Dec 2020
The Black misleaders have been busy selling out Black people for half a century, but are still only barely tolerated by the rich man’s Democratic Party and its racist figurehead, Joe Biden.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Master Biden Speaks
16 Dec 2020
The civil rights groups’ rather basic requests for voting rights protections and the need for federal intervention to address police brutality were minimized and dismissed by the president-ele