African America

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Philadelphia to Celebrate Dubois Birthday
24 Oct 2017
Next year marks the 150th birthday of the great Black scholar-activist W.E.B. Dubois.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
DA Wants Sugar Bear’s Blood
24 Oct 2017
Courts threw out Robert “Sugar Bear” Lark’s conviction in a 1979 murder because Blacks had been systematically kept off Philadelphia juries.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
FBI Tries to Shield Violent White Supremacists
24 Oct 2017
Activists in cites nationwide marked National Stop Police Brutality Day, this past weekend, including Newark, New Jersey’s People’s Organization for Progress (POP).
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Democrats Deploy #BlackLivesMatter Brand For 2018 Elections- The Electoral Justice Project
19 Oct 2017
It was a bright cold Chicago day in January or February 1976. I was working as a security guard at an A&P store on 35th street.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of October 16, 2017
18 Oct 2017
Black Misleadership Class Specializes in Groveling
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Misleadership Class Specializes in Groveling
17 Oct 2017
Most Black elected officials and established civic organizations long ago stopped making substantive demands of U.S. rulers. “They have no demands.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Philly Officials Refuse to Control Cops
17 Oct 2017
When the Philadelphia City Council refused to consider a proposed bill to make the police accountable to democratically elected neighborhood bodies, the Black Is Back Coalition and its allies held
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
U.S. Prisoners Need Some Love
17 Oct 2017
In an essay for Prison Radio, Charles Diggs, an inmate at Pennsylvania’s Graterford state prison, said U.S.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Malcolm X and Liberation Theology
10 Oct 2017
“The theological imagination gives us the opportunity to reframe the conversation in the service of justice,” said Dr. Vincent Lloyd, who teaches theology at Villanova University.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia Legal Move in Limbo
10 Oct 2017
Supporters of Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, fear a Pennsylvania judge may be backing away from his order that the Philadelphia district attorney’s office turn over al