African America

Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 12, 2015
13 Oct 2015
Atty. Gen. Lynch Backtracks on Killer Cop Stats Black activists are outraged at Attorney General Loretta Lynch for backing away from her predecessor’s verbal commitment to require local police…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 5, 2015
06 Oct 2015
Reps. John Lewis and Terri Sewell Scheme to Keep Racist’s Name on Selma Bridge State Sen. Hank Sanders and lots of other people in Selma, Alabama, want to name the Edmund Pettus Bridge for Amelia…
The Whites Are Coming! The Whites Are Coming!: Gentrification Surging in U.S. Cities
30 Sep 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford When Wall Street sets its collective minds and money to the task of gentrification, urban populations move – rapidly! In just the past…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 28, 2015
29 Sep 2015
Black Families and Women Bear Burden of Mass Incarceration A survey of 1,000 former prison inmates and their families by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, in Oakland, California, “showed that…
Black Families Crushed By Prison and Death
23 Sep 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Every socio-economic fact conspires against successful Black family life, beginning with the dwindling pool of available husbands and…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 21, 2015
22 Sep 2015
What Price Reparations? Based on calculations by University of Connecticut researcher Thomas Craemer, reparations to African Americans for slavery would cost between $5.9 trillionand $14.2…
Yale's Lucrative Wet Kiss Anoints #BlackLivesMatter's Deray McKesson Their Kind of “Transformational” Leader
16 Sep 2015
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 14, 2015
15 Sep 2015
Justice Department Blowing Smoke on Prosecuting Corporate Execs “There’s nothing new” in a U.S. Justice Department memo that claims it will bring more criminal prosecutions against corporate…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 7, 2015
08 Sep 2015
Solitary Confinement to be Sharply Curtailed in California A settlement between activist inmates and California prison officials will sharply limit the use of solitary confinement in the state. “I do…
Killed and Killer Cops
02 Sep 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Cops are crying that their lives are in danger from folks inflamed by “dangerous national rhetoric.” But, “the statistics tell us…