US Politics

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Obama’s Selma Song: America Is Not Racist – It’s Just Ferguson
12 Mar 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford No matter how many Black people are shot down in the streets by cops, no matter how far Black people fall in the relative to whites in the economy, Barack Obama has…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Final Insult to Michael Brown
11 Mar 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Why Isn't Sen. Kirk's “Chicago Will Become Detroit” Threat National News?
11 Mar 2015
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Chicago could become Detroit, an Illinois Senator threatened on March 2, if Chicago fails to re-elect Rahm Emanuel. Staring down this threat tells us a…
Obama, at War on Three Continents, Threatens Venezuela
11 Mar 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford No sooner does Obama break the ice with Cuban, than he turns up the imperial heat on Venezuela, the other openly socialist government in…
Paul Street
Beyond Twelve Years a Slave
11 Mar 2015
by Paul Street At the heart of American history lies an essential truth: the U.S. became an economic superpower based on the super-exploitation of Black slaves, to whom it owes reparations. In his…
Mr. Davey D
From Selma To Ferguson, the Continuity of Police Terror
11 Mar 2015
By Mr. Davey D The giddy, patriotic TV commentators and talking heads who brought the celebrations around the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday to us don't say much about the uniformed terrorists on…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Oprah and Sharpton Attack Black Lives Matter Movement
05 Feb 2015
Jesse Hagopian
“Why are They Doing This to Me?”: Seattle Students Walkout on Ferguson Decision and Racism
03 Dec 2014
by Jesse Hagopian Ferguson is everywhere – including Seattle, where thousands of students took to the streets last week. “What is sweeping the nation—something the media cannot acknowledge without…
The Black Caucus “Left” Wing Crumbles Before Obama’s War Machine
24 Sep 2014
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford It took just three years for most Americans to conclude that George Bush’s war in Iraq should come to an end. But, after three years of failure in Syria,…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
The Black Political Class? The Congressional Black Caucus? These Joes Ain't Loyal
17 Sep 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Why does the Congressional Black Caucus endorse Israeli apartheid? Why do our black mayors embrace gentrification, our civil rights organizations side with their…