African America

Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 30, 2015
01 Dec 2015
Two Rights Groups Refuse to Sign Off on Sentencing “Reform” Bill Legislation is moving through the U.S. House and Senate that would retroactively shorten sentences for crack cocaine possession and,…
Baltimore Study Sheds Light on Bankers’ Scheme To Expel Blacks from the City
18 Nov 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Banks in Baltimore “have condemned the Black sections of town to a death spiral of social and physical deterioration” as a matter of…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 9, 2015
10 Nov 2015
A Movement in Need of Vision and Ideology Hundreds of activists will converge on Philadelphia’s Temple University, January 8-10, under the banner “Reclaiming Our Future: The Black Radical Tradition…
The Middle Age White Male Die-Off: When Skin Privilege is Not Enough
04 Nov 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford What happens to middle aged white men with only a high school education when white skin privilege is no longer enough to secure a…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 2, 2015
03 Nov 2015
Kick the Cops Out of Schools Parents and citizens outraged at the manhandling of a 16 year-old female high school student by a white policeman in Richland County, South Carolina, are pressing for…
FBI Chief Gets the “Ferguson Effect” All Wrong
30 Oct 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Cops that think they’ve been abandoned by the Obama administration are out of their minds. “Obama is only seeking to put a smiling face…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 28, 2015
27 Oct 2015
Three Days of Protest Against Police Violence in New York City The Stop Mass Incarceration Network’s Rise Up October campaign brought thousands into the streets of New York for three days of actions…
Find Out What the “Or Else” Is: March with the Black Is Back Coalition in Washington, Nov. 7
21 Oct 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford If Black people are engaged in a renewed “movement,” what are the demands? The Black Is Back Coalition will bring the demand for Black…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 21, 2015
20 Oct 2015
Why Not Hundreds of Rise Up October Campaigns? When the Rise Up October campaign against police violence arrives in New York City for three days of demonstrations, this weekend, the People’s…
Confederate Flag Wavers Arrested Under Law Designed to Imprison Blacks
13 Oct 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford A Georgia prosecutor turned the state’s gang law on a group of Confederate flag-waving white supremacists – the first such use of the…