US Politics

Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 30, 2016
31 May 2016
Jill Stein: U.S. Electoral “House of Cards” Coming Down Presidential candidate Jill Stein has an answer tor those Democrats that accuse the Greens of offering themselves as “spoilers” who would throw…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Seats on the 2016 Democratic Platform Committee Are NOT a "Political Revolution"
26 May 2016
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The Sanders campaign named Cornel West, and 4 others to the Democratic party 2016 platform committee. But platform promises to Democratic voters have always been…
Sam Husseini
Layers of Islamophobia: Rep. Keith Ellison Says He’s “Unaware” of Clinton Having Returned “Muslim Money”
25 May 2016
by Sam Husseini The only two Muslim members of Congress, Keith Ellison and André Carson, both Black, seem oblivious to Hillary Clinton’s history of distancing herself from Muslim Americans, and share…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Down with the Duopoly: The Republicans Have Split; Now It’s the Democrat’s Turn
19 May 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The split in the Democratic Party will become an unbridgeable chasm “when Sanders supporters are forced to recognize that the 40-plus percent of the Democratic base…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Transgender Rights but No Rights for Black People
18 May 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If you are Black in America, “driving, walking, riding a bicycle, being in a public space at the wrong moment, or even calling the police for…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 16, 2016
17 May 2016
Black Brazil Will Resist “Soft Coup” Against Workers Party Dilma Rousseff, of the Brazilian Workers Party, was removed from her office as president, last week, and put on trial by the nation’s Senate…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Obama Chugs Flint Water, Dodges Federal Responsibility, Delivers Another Cynical Lecture to Black Folks
12 May 2016
"the president cynically leveraged his blackness to obscure the fact that he was refusing to go after the guilty parties, while proposing no measures to ensure it didn't happen again."
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Sanders Supporters Can Bring Down the Democrats
11 May 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Bernie Sanders supporters could truly be on a revolutionary mission – if they choose to accept it. “They must not support or vote for Hillary…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 9, 2016
10 May 2016
Detroit Teachers “Browbeaten” Back to Work by National Union The two-day teachers sick-out that closed Detroit public schools last week was about much more than paycheck issues, said Steve Conn, the…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Bernie to Deliver Captive Constituencies to the Democratic Convention
05 May 2016
Bernie will take his campaign all the way to the convention. We called him a sheepdog back in May 2015, and he's filling exactly that role, enticing the Dems' captive constituencies back into the…