by James Kilgore The Obama administration’s announcement that it would phase out private federal prisons is symbolically important, but will affect only a small slice of the nation’s huge…

by Bill Quigley  When much of Black New Orleans was forced out of town in the wake of Katrina, the powers-that-be welcomed the opportunity to make the purge permanent. Today, “there are 95,625…

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.…

What does the Green Party nomination of longtime Black Agenda Report contributing editor Ajamu Baraka for Vice President mean for the Green Party and the 2016 presidential election?  Is he just…

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Clinton supporters rejected out of hand Donald Trump’s charge that she and Barack Obama “created” the Islamic State -- and even Trump seemed to retreat from his…