Glen Ford

Listen Now: Windows Media Format or MP3 Format Radio BC Master Page The United States is backing a group of warlords in Mogadishu, the capital of the nearly stateless nation of Somalia. With U.S. cash, the warlords have launched attacks on Islamic organizations that are attempting to establish Islamic law in Mogadishu, which has had…

Listen Now: Windows Media Format or MP3 Format Radio BC Master Page It was wonderful to behold tens of thousands gathered on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to demand an end to the genocide in Darfur, in the western Sudan. The reality of genocide against Muslim Black Africans at the hands of Arabized Muslim…

Listen Now: Windows Media Format or MP3 Format Radio BC Master Page There exists in the African American political conversation a great disconnect on the subject of “economic development.” Among some Black political tendencies, the term “economic development” is thought to be synonymous with individual entrepreneurship. That’s a very narrow definition of economic development, one…

Listen Now: Windows Media Format or MP3 Format Radio BC Master Page Unless the courts intervene, the public schools of Omaha, Nebraska may one day soon be divided into three ethnically distinct districts. Whites, Blacks and Hispanics would each have their own separate school districts, under a bill passed by the state legislature and signed…

I still believe this is a factor – but then we witnessed the glorious turnout among immigrants, a high proportion of whom were liable for deportation should they fall into police hands during a confrontation. Yet they still marched, and chanted, and nobody covered their faces. It has been suggested that the demonstrations were so…

Although we would like to throw ourselves a party on this, the week of our fourth anniversary, we at Black Commentator view the occasion as a time for introspection and evaluation. That’s what true political people do. We do think there is cause to pop a few corks and cans. We believe even more firmly…

African Americans have no stake in nativist whites’ desire to keep the US of A white. We do have a stake in influencing the political behavior of Latino immigrants, with whom we must negotiate for control of the cities. It is a fool’s game to side with the enemy in this historic encounter. We know…

The Bush regime claims it wants to get out of Iraq as soon as possible. But that’s a lie. In fact, they get deeper and deeper into Iraq with every passing month – a fact that can be proven by the numbers. According to a report by the Congressional Research Service, the Bush gang will…

This commentary originally appeared in the Summer Issue of ColorLines magazine. This commentary originally appeared in the Summer Issue of ColorLines magazine. “Mama, when I get over there I have the feeling they are going to arrest me just because of the name that I have carried.” That’s how Quran Bilal remembers a parting conversation…