US Politics

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Deirdre Cooper Owens’ “Medical Bondage”
04 Jul 2018
“American gynecology and obstetrics is intimately bound to American slavery.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Britt Rusert’s “Fugitive Science”
04 Jul 2018
“We are seeing the reemergence of a white supremacist engagement with science that has always existed, but is finding more traction within the public sphere and media.”
Miles Kampf-Lassin
The Anti-Union Janus Ruling Is Going to Hit Black Women the Hardest
04 Jul 2018
“The public sector provides job opportunities for African-American workers, and women especially, at a rate much higher than the private sector.”
Josmar Trujillo
Papers Insist ‘We Need’ Secret Gang Databases—Just Like We ‘Needed’ Stop & Frisk
04 Jul 2018
“Police gang databases can lead to increased bail, harsher sentencing, erosion of presumption of innocence and even increased chances of deportation.”
Nombuso Mathibela
The Land Question: Unpacking Expropriation Without Compensation in South Africa
04 Jul 2018
“Pay no one for land acquired illegally.”
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Doing Good Work
03 Jul 2018
Bet you wonderin’ how I knew, What’s fake and what’s true? I heard it through the grapevine— Or, maybe I read it online? I heard from an avid reader—
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Putin-Trump Summit Won’t Accomplish Much
03 Jul 2018
Sara Flounders, of the United National Anti-War Coalition, thinks the upcoming summit meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, probably won’t
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
What’s a Gang, and Who’s In It?
03 Jul 2018
The New York City police department keeps a list of 42,000 alleged gang members, and uses it to bring conspiracy charges that have resulted in mass arrests in Black and brown neighborhoods.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Buffalo Neighborhoods Saturated With Checkpoints
03 Jul 2018
For the past five years, Buffalo, New York, cops have concentrated their checkpoints on the Black side of town, raking in record revenues from fines.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
“Brutality Bonds”
03 Jul 2018
Cities have gone billions of dollars in debt to pay for court settlements and judgments against brutal cops, with the profits from these so-called “brutality bonds” going mainly to large banks.