US Politics

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Brazil is a Killing Field for Young Black Men
20 May 2019
“The police kill at least 14 young Black men in Brazil every single day,” said Prof. Jaime Amparo Alves, a member of the Brazilian Black Movement who teaches anthropology at t
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Political Mafia Suspected in Marielle Franco Murder
20 May 2019
Only two people have been arrested in the March, 2018 assassination of Marielle Franco, the Black activist and city councilwoman in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Killer Security Guards Get Impunity
20 May 2019
On May 31 Philadelphia activists will march on a “My Philly Wireless” outlet where a private security guard fatally shot Willie Oliver Wise, an unarmed part-time employee who said the store ow
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The U.S. Has Been Eclipsed in Every Sphere But War
16 May 2019
US rulers promised that technology would bring the return of the millions of jobs that were outsourced to low-wage countries, but America has lost the hi-tech race and excels only in weapons of war
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: U.S. Wages War Against the World
15 May 2019
The U.S. “troika of tyranny,” Trump, Bolton and Pompeo, are making things up as they go along, seeking to bend the planet to their lawless will.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Book Review: The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood
15 May 2019
The vulnerability of Black men and boys in the U.S.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
2020 Elections: Its Militarism and the Military Budget Stupid!
15 May 2019
The Trump military budget is more than a third higher than five years ago, while cutting non-defense programs by 9 percent– but the corporate media ignore the issue and Democratic candidates a
Cornel West and Deborah Chasman
Cornel West Discusses Barriers to Black Truth-Telling in America
15 May 2019
Establishment publishing houses are a lot more “colorful” than they used to be, but that doesn’t mean they care about the poor and imprisoned, says the nation’s most prominent Black intellectual.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
15 May 2019
This week the hypocrisy of Democratic Party presidential candidates and the reality behind the nonprofit industrial complex were topics on your minds. Readers wrote about “
Calvin Warren
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Achille Mbembe's "Critique of Black Reason" (Part 3)
15 May 2019
Mbembe invites us to rethink the foundation of thought upon which the world is predicated.