US Politics

People’s Dispatch staff
Atlanta Jail to be Shut Due to Community Mobilization
29 May 2019
Instead of ensuring public safety for all citizens, the jail wrongfully imprisons and abuses people of color.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
US Protects Jihadists in Syria
27 May 2019
If the United States launches another air strike against Syria, understand that it will be to protect al Qaida, the empire’s jihadist foot soldiers.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Church Complicit in Marking Black Females as Hypersexual
27 May 2019
The Black church has preserved and fostered slavery-based views of Black female sexuality, causing Black women and girls to be labeled as “Jezebels,” said Tamura Lomax, author of&n
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Regime Change Through Social Media
27 May 2019
The CIA’s Digital Innovations Division is now as strategic a tool of regime change as the old cloak and dagger methods of subversion, according to Doug Valentine, author of&nb
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
The Battle For Ballot Access is a Century Old. It's Time to Break it Open
24 May 2019
In 1916 a socialist ran for president of the United States.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Malcolm, Russiagate and the FBI
23 May 2019
NBC is hawking a wild tale about Black Identity Extremists, scheming Russians, and military training camps in Africa.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Abortion Rights and the Power of Protest
22 May 2019
An abortion rights crisis looms, but Americans have lost their fightng tools, lulled to sleep by the corporate fixers of the Democratic Party.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Corporate Media and the “Resistance” to Peace
22 May 2019
The “Resistance” to peace being waged by the capitalist class and the corporate media is the greatest threat faced by humanity today.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Muellergate, A Report Review: Who Cooked Up the 'Russiagate' Conspiracy?
22 May 2019
Robert Mueller took two years to cook up a nothingburger, but we need to find out who conspired to wreck relations with Russia and censor the Left.
Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Marcela Howelland Jessica González-Rojas
How the Promise of Roe v. Wade Left Women of Color Behind
22 May 2019
Roe has never been full of promise for women of color, immigrant women and women with low incomes, who also have the most to lose.