US Politics

Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Patriot Act
17 Aug 2017
The white supremacist who drove his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of antiracist demonstrators in Charlottsville VA injuring 19 people and killing one probably thought he was a patriot.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Trump and America’s Fascist Forefathers
17 Aug 2017
“If you rightly condemn Washington and Jefferson as loathsome oppressors of humanity, you are then obligated to purge the nation and world of the poisoned fruit of their racist perversion.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Root and Russophobia
16 Aug 2017
Freedom Rider: The Root and Russophobia by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The Story of Charlottesville was Written in Blood in the Ukraine
16 Aug 2017
Some of the neo-Nazis President Obama helped put in power in Ukraine carried Confederate flags. U.S. society has been moving rightward for decades -- and pulling much of Europe with it.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 15, 2017
16 Aug 2017
Black Control of the Police is a Democratic Right
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Control of the Police is a Democratic Right
16 Aug 2017
The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations held its annual conference in Chicago, highlighting its 19-point National Black Political Agenda for Self-Determination.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Chicago Politicians are “in the Mayor’s Pocket”
16 Aug 2017
Frank Chapman is part of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. His organization is pushing a measure to take “all the power away from the mayor, away from the independ
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Flipping the Script on the NYPD
16 Aug 2017
When the New York City Police Department held a community-oriented “Night Out Against Crime” in The Bronx, activists with the Freedom Cities movement staged a “Night of Safety and Liberation” count
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Political Scientist Rejects Organizing Based on “Purely Ethnic Affinity”
16 Aug 2017
Cedric Johnson, a political scientist and associate professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago, has no confidence in the long term effectiveness of organizing ba
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia: Trump’s America Shows Its Nasty Butt
16 Aug 2017
The events in Charlottesville, Virginia, reveal the raw racism endemic to the United States, said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, in an essay for Prison Radio.