US Politics

Jacob Sugarman
What Students Are Taught About Slavery
07 Feb 2018
“Nearly half of the teachers failed to teach their students that protections for slavery were enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.”
Jeff Schuhrke
Chicago Teachers Union and Charter School Teachers Have Joined Forces
07 Feb 2018
“Leaders of both union locals say they don’t have a problem with charter schools per se, but rather they oppose the proliferation of the charter system of mana
Ken Morgan
Memphis Sanitation Workers Remembered
07 Feb 2018
“The workers represented and led the black public striving for decent employment, paying jobs, decent living conditions, quality public schools and union recognition.”
Solomon Comissiong
Many Americans' Actions Support Trump's Shit-Hole Countries Slur
07 Feb 2018
“Barack Obama bombed those majority Muslim nations, with no regard for human life, and his supporters didn't say a peep.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio. Week of Feb. 5, 2018
07 Feb 2018
Black Agenda Report's Bruce Dixon explains why the left shouldn't be using the term intersectional.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
In Tribute to Black Political Prisoners
06 Feb 2018
“They are the unspoken, invisible and buried-alive legacy of the revolutionary movements of the 1960s and 70s that were neutralized by the FBI, local police, courts and the corporate media, by way
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
U.S. Left Lacks Class Consciousness
06 Feb 2018
“Every issue in U.S. society is shaped in a white supremacist fashion,” according to activist and scholar Jeffrey B.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
“Intersectionality,” As Practiced in U.S., Retards Solidarity
06 Feb 2018
“Solidarity is something that you develop in the course of common struggle,” said BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon, in an interview with “This Is Hell” radio host Chuck Mert
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Liberal Totalitarianism and the Trump Diversion
04 Feb 2018
The ongoing political circus in the capital of the world’s most powerful empire opens almost daily with a new act each day showcasing an even more bizarre and more revealing display of the internal
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Looking Down That Deep Hole: Parasitic Intersectionality and Toxic Afro-Pessimism, Part 2 of 3
01 Feb 2018
When I took a swipe at intersectionality last week, declaring that it wa