A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christy “must have reasoned that nobody important would stand in the way of whatever he wanted to do to…

by Frank X Murphy The whole world knows that Flint River water stinks and is full of lead. But, it is “the smell of Gov. Rick Snyder’s unprecedented, radically anti-democratic and cunningly racist ‘…

by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner I. The scent of sulfur, scandalous Skippy-Gate brew— With an arresting officer; some shit ain’t neurosurgery or rocket science—ain’t as nuanced, or…

by Danny Haiphong When capitalism is sinking, the working class is drowning, and flails about for a life raft – like Power Ball. “Workers, especially the increasing numbers thrown out of the labor…

by Kali Akuno The current upsurge in Black “movement”-type politics has been in the making for a decade. Katrina “reawakened the Black radical imagination” in 2005. Like a wave, the momentum built…