African America

There’s Only One Cure for Chicago Police Lawlessness: Black Community Control
20 Apr 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel thinks he can squelch Black rage against the police by appointing a Black cop as superintendent. But the new…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 18, 2016
19 Apr 2016
Elections are a “Distraction” – Take it to the Streets A spokesperson for the group that confronted Bill Clinton on his mass Black incarceration and anti-welfare policies, provoking a 13-minute…
COINTELPRO Alive and Well in Los Angeles
13 Apr 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The rulers of the United States – especially the ones that call themselves Democrats – pretend they are seeking an accommodation with the…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 11, 2016
12 Apr 2016
Mississippi Schemes to Dismember Tax Base of Black Capital City The Republican-run State of Mississippi has moved to seize the City of Jackson’s two airports and a medical services corridor, and is…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 4, 2016
05 Apr 2016
Carolina Youths Demand Black Community Control of Police The city of Greenville, South Carolina witnessed two large funerals in recent weeks: one for a white cop, the other for 17 year-old Deontaye…
Just What We Need: More Black Celebrity Charter School Crooks... I Mean 'Entrepreneurs'
31 Mar 2016
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Sean “Diddy” Combs, with accomplices Iyanla Vanzant and privatization hustler Steve Perry are fronting the Capital Prepatory…
Black Brooklyn DA’s Leniency for Killer Cop Shows the “Whole System is Guilty as Hell”
30 Mar 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Black faces in high prosecutorial places do not equal criminal justice reform. The first Black district attorney for Brooklyn, New York,…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 28, 2016
29 Mar 2016
Colonial Chickens Come Home to Roost in the West In the wake of the Brussels bombing, we hear variations of the same old theme: “They [Muslims] hate us [the ‘West’] because of our freedoms.” However…
Raul Castro Should Ask Obama: What About U.S. Political Prisoners?
23 Mar 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The man who presides over the largest prison population in the world, a system that is still holding political dissidents captured a half…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 21, 2016
22 Mar 2016
Black Power Matters in 2016 “Fear of fascism being ‘right around the corner’ – this time in the form of Donald Trump – always means a vote for some kind of Democrat, as opposed to building our own…