African America

Sven Beckert
Today’s Capitalism Was Born in Slavery
21 Mar 2018
“We must develop a new appreciation for the centrality of slavery, in the United States and elsewhere, in the emergence of modern capitalism.”
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Confronting Black-Immigrant Conflicts
20 Mar 2018
“Immigrants have been increasingly criminalized by the state in ways that are very similar to African Americans,” said Dr.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mass Incarceration With No End?
20 Mar 2018
Although US incarceration rates have been going down in recent years, at the current pace it would take 75 years to cut the prison population in half, according to Nazgol Ghandnoosh
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
U.S. Slavery Was Uniquely Capitalist
20 Mar 2018
Even on the left, the capitalist nature of US slavery is not well understood, said historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with John Sibley
14 Mar 2018
“A capitalist does not think that just your existence in-the-world is a contribution.”
Ken Morgan
Black Women and International Women’s Day
14 Mar 2018
“Alongside Assata and Rosa and Harriet and Sojourner, let’s celebrate Grace Campbell, of the Blood Brotherhood and the Communist Party.”
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Happy Birthday, Jericho Movement!
13 Mar 2018
The organization created by and for US political prisoners -- most of them Black Panthers, some incarcerated for nearly 50 years -- marks its 20th anniversary, March 24.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Ethnic Cleansing is Still U.S. Policy
13 Mar 2018
“The Black Misleadership Class” acts as “agents and collaborators” in the planned shrinkage of Black and brown populations, said veteran tenants organizer and Black Agenda Radio host Nellie
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Chains That Bound Blacks and Indigenous Americans
13 Mar 2018
Blacks and Native Americans share a history of enslavement at the hands of European settlers, said Dr Gerald Horne, professor of history and African American studies at the Un
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
My Wise Country Cousin On de Blak Boozewahzee
08 Mar 2018
Dey cum buck dancin’, ‘bout ebry 2 ta 4 years, Afta dat, is dey ‘bout scarce as Lepercon ears? Is dese spooks ‘bout korrup as de day is long—