African America

Flint Taylor
Chicago Police Tortured Victims With Electric Shocks, Burns and Beatings
19 Jun 2019
“All you could feel was that machine he was running, that box with the wires on it.”
Tamara Lee
An Intersectional Labor Movement Must Resist “Colorblind” Approaches to Organizing
19 Jun 2019
We must explicitly reject “melting pot” approaches to class solidarity.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Prosecution Falters in Poisoning of Flint Water
17 Jun 2019
“Much of today’s American capitalist enterprise is only profitable because poisoning the air and water and soil is, essentially, free -- for the businessman.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
US History and “News” is Fiction
17 Jun 2019
“The idea that the US is a force for good in the world is used to justify the crimes of US capitalism and has its roots in white supremacy,” said Danny Haiphong, co-author alo
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Chicago Police Torture Victims Speak Truth to Pain and Power
17 Jun 2019
Stanley Howardis still in prison, 35 years after he was forced to confess to crimes he did not commit, landing him on death row.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Is Back Coalition: Wage People’s Struggle Against Imperialism
17 Jun 2019
“We should initiate our own struggles against the social system of imperialism” that oppresses all humanity, said Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black Is Back Coalition for
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
How the Democratic Party Strangled Black Politics
13 Jun 2019
Nothing changes on the electoral scene, and little at the grassroots level, unless the structure of capitalist hegemony over political discourse in the U.S. -- the corporate duopoly -- i
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Central Park Five and the Limits of Suffering
12 Jun 2019
Corporate media green-light films that ratchet up an emotional response without motivating anyone to action.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Torture of Assange Is Public Policy in U.S. Prisons
12 Jun 2019
The psychological torture imposed on Julian Assange is not unlike the decades of torture imposed upon Black political prisoners in the US.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
12 Jun 2019
This week BAR readers discussed the Central Park Five, US support for jihadism, and Black Lives Matter. Strong comments arrived for “