US Politics

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Swan Song for a War and Austerity President (Who is Also Black)
14 Jan 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford This year’s State of the Union Address was a kind of swan song for Barack Obama, his last before “retiring” to three presidential libraries and tens of millions in…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
How Democrats and Republicans Collude to Block the Vote -- And How We Can Un-Block It
17 Dec 2015
We hear lots of outrage about how Republicans block the vote. But blocking the vote by keeping third parties off the ballot with unjust laws in more than a dozen states is a project Democrats share…
Dyson's “Yes She Can” Is Another Lazy, Shameless Official Spokesnegro Audition Tape
10 Dec 2015
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Bruce A. Dixon You'd think a “Yes She Can” piece about Hillary Clinton from a supposed black “public intellectual” would explain what and how she might do and why…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Slutty Professor Strikes Again!
09 Dec 2015
Slutty Professor Strikes Again! by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Ronald Reagan once called the presidencey "the role of a lifetime." The current occupant of the White House has proven…
Youth Leads the Struggle in Chicago
02 Dec 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The supremely arrogant Mayor “Rahmbo” Emanuel has been temporarily chastened by the drumbeat of protests against the killing of Laquan…
The Real News Network
Will Hillary Clinton Do More For Black America Than Did Obama? Is That A Low Enough Bar?
01 Dec 2015
The Real News Network's Jared Ball interviews Glen Ford on Michael Eric Dyson's fulsome endorsement of Hillary Clinton in the New Republic.
Norman Richmond
The Sports of Empire
24 Nov 2015
by Norman (Otis) Richmond Sports has traveled the world on the fortunes of empire – and the misfortunes of the conquered. “’Thanks’ to imperialism, Africans in the Western Hemisphere were…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The Paris Attacks and the White Lives Matter Movement
18 Nov 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The white world views French victims of ISIS as more valuable – more human – than the thousands of Arabs, Kurds and Africans murdered in terror attacks, or…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Americans are Poor
04 Nov 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If Americans understood how poor they actually are – on a par with Latvians and Romanians, according to newly released data – they would dump the…
Jeremy Malcolm
The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared
03 Nov 2015
By Jeremy Malcolm The TPP, or Trans-Pacific Partnership is a body of secret law so odious that the Obama administration seeks to enact it into law without its content made known to the public for 5…