US Politics

Chris Hedges
My Student Comes Home from Prison
01 Jul 2020
In 1990, Lawrence Bell was 14, orphaned and living in an abandoned house when three Camden cops pressured him to sign a confession of murder.
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Interrogating Systemic Racism and the White Academic Field
01 Jul 2020
The US university is marked by the dominance of intellectual white liberalism in tension and complicity with conservative nationalism and neoliberalism.
Robert Greene II
A Southern Vanguard, The Lost History of Communism Below the Mason-Dixon Line
01 Jul 2020
Alabama Communists helped lay the foundation for the organized civil rights movement that emerged in the late 1940s and early ’50s.
Garrett Felber
The Struggle to Abolish the Police is Not New
01 Jul 2020
Prison and police abolition were key to the thinking of many midcentury civil rights activists.
Jeremy Scahill and Robin D.G. Kelley
A Black Scholar on How Today’s Abolitionist Movement Can Fundamentally Change the Country
01 Jul 2020
If there’s ever a time when a Reconstruction might actually lead to democratization and the end of American imperialism, this is the opportunity, says Robin D.G. Kelley.
Adofo Minka
The Self-Confessed Bankruptcy of Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba
01 Jul 2020
Jackson, Mississippi’s Black mayor is celebrated as a “radical” in some quarters, but his cops kill, maim and abuse Black people just like police forces everywhere in the US.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 29, 2020
29 Jun 2020
Inequality: The American Ethos
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Reading During “Perfect Storm” of Crisis
29 Jun 2020
Medical, economic and political crises have combined to create a “perfect storm for reading, because of the ways that the ideology of whiteness has come to its limits,” said Aparna Mis
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Blacks Need to Rethink “Positive” Images in a Racist Country
29 Jun 2020
A segment of African Americans has long been obsessed with promoting images that are positive representations of The Race, but recurring police atrocities show the necessity to “expose the regime o
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Inequality: The American Ethos
29 Jun 2020
The US has historically been a place where “fairness is adjudicated unevenly, it’s based on inequality” in which “certain people deserve more than others,” said Ampson Hagan,