African America

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
New South African Party to “Overthrow Capitalism”
29 Jan 2019
Irvin Jim, leader of South Africa’s largest union, told a People’s Forum audience in New York City that the newly formed Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party is not “another refor
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
MLK Fought for Workers’ Rights
29 Jan 2019
Dr Martin Luther King, who was killed supporting Memphis garbage workers, often noted that most Black people are working class, said labor historian Peter Cole.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of January 21, 2019
22 Jan 2019
Larry Hamm -- MLK was a radical socialist; Kerry Chance: poverty is criminalized in today's South Africa; Ray McGopvern: RussiaGate "collusiuon" is a crock.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Make MLK’s Teachings Part of School Curriculum
21 Jan 2019
Dr Martin Luther King’s writings and speeches “should be a part of the curriculum of public schools,” said Larry Hamm, chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress, base
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Philly DA is Focus of Mumia Rally
15 Jan 2019
Supporters of Mumia Abu Jamal rallied in Philadelphia, demanding that District Attorney Larry Krasner not thwart his appeal of a police murder conviction, 38 years ago.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Blacks and Latinos Face Global South” Conditions in US
15 Jan 2019
Black and Latino workers in the US are more favorable to unions because they “are most like workers in the Global South,” where workers are super-exploited, said Michael Yates, the
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
New Cold War Crazier Than the Old One
14 Jan 2019
“The peril of this new Cold War is especially great,” said Russia expert Stephen Cohen, “because even when Trump does something sensible with Russia on behalf of our national secur
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A “Pathway to Freedom” for Mumia
08 Jan 2019
A recent court ruling that “there was, in fact, judicial bias” in denying Mumia Abu Jamal’s appeal of his conviction in the 1982 death of a cop shows that “this is a different moment in American hi
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Is Back Chairman: US System in Trouble
08 Jan 2019
“The entire system is held in high disregard,” said Black Is Back Coalition chairman Omali Yeshitela,” and that’s why you see the disappearance of the so-called ‘center’” in the tw
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Michelle Obama's Memoir "Becoming" -- Lots of Stories, Few Lessons
03 Jan 2019
If anybody else had written it, the first hundred pages of Michelle Obama’s book “Becoming” would stand as a brief, but warm and fuzzy memoir of growing up on the black south side of Chicago.