African America

Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 1, 2016
02 Feb 2016
A Reprieve for “Child Lifers” in Prison Thousands of inmates serving life sentences for crimes committed when they were juveniles may be eligible for release from prison in the wake of a U.S. Supreme…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 25, 2016
26 Jan 2016
Dismantling Capitalism and Imperialism This month’s conference on the Black Radical Tradition, held at Temple University, in Philadelphia, was an historic gathering of 21st century Black “anti-…
Moving Left, Back to the Radical Root
13 Jan 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The Black Radical Tradition must still be alive and kicking, having drawn hundreds of activists and scholars to a conference, this…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 11, 2016
12 Jan 2016
Philadelphia Conference Reasserts Black Radical Tradition Hundreds of activists, academics and organizers from around the country descended on Temple University, in Philadelphia, January 8-10, for a…
Why the Feds Punk Out When Confronting White Rightwing Insurgents
07 Jan 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 4, 2016
05 Jan 2016
Building a Black “Movement” from the Current “Momentum” Dr. Cornel West, the nation’s best known Black public intellectual and a keynote speaker at this weekend’s conference on the Black Radical…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 28, 2015
29 Dec 2015
Ideology and Practice for the New Movement The Black Radical Tradition is alive and kicking in the 21st century, said Dr. Anthony Monteiro, an organizer and keynote speaker for a conference titled “…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 21, 2015
21 Dec 2015
Michigan Water Crisis Rooted in Crisis of Democracy In majority Black Flint, Michigan, the mayor has declared a state of emergency due to unsafe water, while in mostly Black Detroit tens of thousands…
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…
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…