African America

T.P. Wilkinson
The Expense of the American Dream
24 Apr 2019
Professor Gerald Horne shows that the Dark Continent was Europe, not Africa.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia and Supporters Jubilant Over Prospects for New Trial
22 Apr 2019
“For the first time in years, our forces are building again, marching again,” said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Is the Apartheid Colonial Settler State of Israel “Reparations” For Jews? ADOS Thinks So.
19 Apr 2019
ADOS stands for American Descendants of Slaves, a group founded by Yvette Carnell and Antonio Moore, supposedly advocates of reparations for the descendants of Africans enslaved in the US.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Terri Sewell, the Worst of the Black Caucus, Subverts $15 Wage Bill
18 Apr 2019
Selma, Alabama, has produced the most reactionary Black Congressperson in modern times, part of the Democratic Party’s increasing servitude to corporate interests.
This Is Hell , Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
We Must Have a Demand: Towards a Transformative, Black-Led Reparations Movement.
17 Apr 2019
Glen Ford explores the possibilities of reparations, and the limits of the Democratic party's racial politics - as 2020 presidential hopefuls advance insufficient reparations schemes to court Black
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Celebrating the Release of American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News-From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
17 Apr 2019
American Exceptionalism is bound to white supremacy and creates a broad national unity around the interests of the ruling class.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: John Lowney’s”Jazz Internationalism”
17 Apr 2019
Black writers have underscored the possibilities and challenges of black internationalism through their innovative adaptations of black music.
Alice Speri
As Black Activists Protested Police Killings, Homeland Security Worried They Might Join ISIS
17 Apr 2019
Federal officials spread right-wing tales that Black protesters were susceptible to Islamic jihadist appeals.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
South Carolina “Bears Responsibility” for Prison Deaths
15 Apr 2019
The deaths of seven inmates during disturbances at the Lee County state prison, a year ago, “was the state’s responsibility, that has not been acknowledged,” said veteran anti-mass Black incarcerat
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Role of Electoral Politics in Revolutionary Change
15 Apr 2019
Participants in the Black Is Back Coalition’s 3rd Electoral Politics School agreed with chairman Omali Yeshitela that “massive political change is in the wind.” “The worl