African America

Black Agenda Report for Week of Oct 3, 2016
10 Oct 2016
Reparations a Necessity to Correct America’s Crimes The United Nations panel of experts that blasted the U.S. for its “legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation,…
Black Agenda Report for Week of October 3, 2016
03 Oct 2016
Clinton is Far More Anti-Crime Than Pro-Justice When Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed over stop-and-frisk at their first televised debate, Clinton only weakly addressed “the idea of racial…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 26, 2016
26 Sep 2016
Prison Strike Against Slave Labor Continues Despite a near-total lack of corporate media coverage, the national prison strike that began September 9 continues at facilities in 11 states, said Pastor…
Murder by U.S. Occupation Forces: Tulsa 2016, Baghdad 2007
21 Sep 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The mayor of Tulsa is promising a “transparent” investigation into the police slaughter of another unarmed Black man, 40 year-old Terence…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 19, 2016
20 Sep 2016
Kaepernick’s Example Spreads “Like Wildfire” The same reality confronts the U.S. today as in 1776, said Dr. Gerald Horne, professor of History and African American Studies at the University of…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 12, 2016
12 Sep 2016
Networks Need to “Do Their Jobs” and Hold 4-Way Debates RootsAction.Org is circulating a petition urging the television networks and cable news operations to “do their job, to hold a presidential…
Black Agenda Report for Week of September 7, 2016
05 Sep 2016
20th Anniversary of Clinton’s War Against the Poor It’s been 20 years since President Bill Clinton and the U.S. Congress destroyed “welfare as we knew it” by replacing Aid to Families with Dependent…
Black Agenda Report for Week of August 29, 2016
29 Aug 2016
Rights Lawyers Target Arkansas Debtors Prison The district court in Sherwood, Arkansas, is in gross violation of a 1983 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that it is unconstitutional to imprison …
Katrina and Other Catastrophes
24 Aug 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The Lords of Capital learned a great deal from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. They learned that the Black Misleadership Class was…
Black Agenda Report for Week of August 22, 2016
23 Aug 2016
Presidential Pollsters Ask the Wrong Question “There’s no major poll that I know of that asks the American public who they want to be president,” said journalist and VotePact founder Sam Husseini.…