African America

Eric Blanc
Never Trust a Billionaire’s Antiracism
30 Jan 2019
The LA teachers strike was a tale of two competing antiracist visions — one upheld by privatizing billionaires and another pushed by working people.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
New South African Party to “Overthrow Capitalism”
29 Jan 2019
Irvin Jim, leader of South Africa’s largest union, told a People’s Forum audience in New York City that the newly formed Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party is not “another refor
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
MLK Fought for Workers’ Rights
29 Jan 2019
Dr Martin Luther King, who was killed supporting Memphis garbage workers, often noted that most Black people are working class, said labor historian Peter Cole.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Bernie Sanders vs Kamala the Jailer and Her Corporate Backers
24 Jan 2019
The best thing that can happen in 2020 is for Bernie Sanders to do fantastically in the primaries and be cheated out of the nomination, once again, thus giving millions of leftish Democrats a
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Free Marzieh Hashemi
23 Jan 2019
A Black American journalist languishes in a DC jail, imprisoned without charge as part of the US vendetta against Iran, yet the Black political class has not raised a peep in protest.
Paul Street
Chicago Racist Police-State Blues: Sixteen Shots for Laquan, Three Years for Van Dyke
23 Jan 2019
Street activism led to an historic murder conviction of a killer cop, but then a racist judge let him off with a light sentence.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Arrest of Marzieh Hashemi Reveals Nature of Bipartisan Police State
23 Jan 2019
The only reason our sister is being held captive is to once again demonstrate how a runaway slave is treated.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Can the “Wretched” Rule? On Socialism, the State, and the Future of Humanity
23 Jan 2019
it is merely a fantasy to believe that the struggle to bring socialism in the United States will not involve a revolutionary struggle against the state.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
23 Jan 2019
This week we present readers’ thoughts on Kamala Harris, fact checking in the media, and possibilities for the Green New Deal.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Amber Musser’s “Sensual Excess”
23 Jan 2019
The author examines the framing power of sexuality as an ideology of respectability and control.