African America

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Darius Bost’s “Evidence of Being”
23 Jan 2019
With the face of AIDS having changed from white gay men to non-whites, it is wise to tap into an earlier radical tradition.
Michelle Alexander
Time to Break the Silence on Palestine
23 Jan 2019
If we are to honor King’s message and not merely the man, we must condemn Israel’s actions.
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Beyond NATO: Time to Break the Silence, End NATO’s Militarism
23 Jan 2019
Dr King would be opposed to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) because it is an instrument of US and European militarism.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of January 21, 2019
22 Jan 2019
Larry Hamm -- MLK was a radical socialist; Kerry Chance: poverty is criminalized in today's South Africa; Ray McGopvern: RussiaGate "collusiuon" is a crock.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Make MLK’s Teachings Part of School Curriculum
21 Jan 2019
Dr Martin Luther King’s writings and speeches “should be a part of the curriculum of public schools,” said Larry Hamm, chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress, base
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
A Tale of Self-Serving Black Journalists and the Corporate Duopoly
17 Jan 2019
Diversity insulates the bosses from criticism by large elements of the oppressed classes, while posing little or no threat to capital and the rule of rich white men.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Kamala Harris Destroyed Black Lives
16 Jan 2019
Harris has spent her career locking up Black and brown people. She should not be allowed to shake hands, kiss babies or walk into black churches without being taken to task.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Democratic Party Obsession with Capitalism and Militarism Will Grow Worse by 2020
16 Jan 2019
The Democratic Party is a political trap designed to capture the most progressive constituency in the United States: Black America.
Teodrose Fikre
Evoking Muckrakers: Hannah Giorgis’s Devastating Critique of Senator Kamala Harris
16 Jan 2019
Kamala Harris’s memoir reads nothing like her actual record of locking up the poor and giving impunity to the rich.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kerry Chance’s “Living Politics in South Africa’s Urban Shacklands”
16 Jan 2019
Repression of the poor in South Africa has resulted in the criminalization of the very forms of struggle that made the democratic transition possible.