African America

Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 31, 2015
01 Sep 2015
Blacks Disenfranchised by School Takeovers “Black and brown communities are being stripped of democracy” by state takeovers of their school systems, said Keron Blair, executive director of the…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 24, 2015
26 Aug 2015
Black U.S. Movers and Shakers in Solidarity with Palestine One thousand Black American activists, artists and academics have signed a petition backing the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (…
Black College Households Lost Half Their Wealth Despite Degrees
19 Aug 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Black households headed by college graduates have been steadily losing ground to their white collegiate peers over the past two decades.…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 17, 2015
18 Aug 2015
Black People Should ‘Police’ Themselves The Milwaukee chapter of BND, the Black National Defenders, hold rallies every Saturday and knock on doors in neighborhoods to engage young people in political…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 10, 2015
11 Aug 2015
One-Fifth of Pennsylvania Prisoners, Including Mumia, Need Hep C Treatment Lawyers for Mumia Abu Jamal have filed suit against the State of Pennsylvania for refusing to treat the nation’s best known…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of Aug 3, 2015
04 Aug 2015
Predator Cops Fill Graveyards U.S. police killed 412 people in 1976, 333 in 1984, and 385 in 1990, wrote Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, in an essay now republished for…
NetRoots Nation Confrontation Wasn't About #BlackLivesMatter At All
24 Jul 2015
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon NetRootsNation is a gathering for paid and wannabe paid Democratic party activists, including the ostensibly non-partisan ones.…
Obama’s Takes His Prison Reform Con Game on the Road
22 Jul 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Never has a president been so highly praised for fraudulent efforts and fictitious accomplishments than Barack Obama, who now pretends –…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 20, 2015
21 Jul 2015
Mumia “May Have Been Poisoned” Six months after Mumia Abu Jamal nearly died from diabetic shock, the nation’s best known political prisoner’s underlying illness has yet to be diagnosed, said Dr.…
Obama’s Legacy: Black Child Poverty at Record High
15 Jul 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The consequences of the Great Recession “and the Obama administration’s response to it” have fallen most heavily on Black children,…