African America

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia Gets, and Gives, literary Praise
19 Dec 2017
Supporters of the nation’s best known political prisoner filled Harlem’s “Raw Space” to celebrate his life and latest book, Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? The event featured Mumia
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Voters Energized to Fight Raw Racism
19 Dec 2017
It took the likes of Alabama’s Roy Moore to bring Blacks to the polls in decisive numbers.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia Thanks His Supporters
12 Dec 2017
Activists gathered in Philadelphia to march, attend teach-ins and demand freedom for Mumia Abu Jamal, who has spent 35 years behind bars in the death of a policeman.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
International Commission Probes U.S. Police Impunity
12 Dec 2017
Maria Hamilton, mother of Dontre Hamilton, a mentally challenged young Black man who died in a hail of Milwaukee police gunfire in 2014, was among those that testified at hearings
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Universities Nurtured Ideology of Slavery
12 Dec 2017
A group of Black students at the University of Chicago is demanding the institution acknowledge its financial roots in the slave system and make reparations to the Black community.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Cooperation Jackson's Kali Akuno: Elections Don’t Necessarily Change a Damn Thing
06 Dec 2017
A key strategist among the Black radicals that were behind the election of two Black mayors in Jackson, Mississippi, says his fellow activists have a decision to make: “Are we trying to be a good s
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Are US Blacks An Internal Colony? Or Is That Just Analysis By Analogy?
01 Dec 2017
Since 1968 or 69, almost 50 years now I’ve been hearing the descendants of Africans in the US described as an “internal colony.” Back in the day it seemed perfectly applicable.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
POP Welcomes Workers World Party Conference to Newark
28 Nov 2017
People’s Organization for Progress chairman Larry Hamm hailed the Workers World Party’s decision to hold its national conference in Newark, New Jersey.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Baltimore Police Throw Constitution Out the Window
23 Nov 2017
by Glen Ford “Even when police are in ‘hot pursuit’ of a criminal suspect, they cannot treat a whole neighborhood like criminals.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Haiti Police, Like the Old Army, Work for Uncle Sam
21 Nov 2017
The U.S.-backed regime in Haiti plans to reactivate the national army, which was disbanded for terrorizing the population.