US Politics

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adriaan van Klinken’s Book, “Kenyan, Christian, Queer”
17 Feb 2021
Increasing levels of LGBT/community organization, social mobilization, and political activism can be observed in different parts of the continent.
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
Is Biden Committing Diplomatic Suicide Over the Iran Nuclear Agreement?
17 Feb 2021
Biden is taking the position that the US will not rejoin the agreement or drop its unilateral sanctions until Iran first comes back into compliance.
Margaret Flowers
Urgent Solidarity With Haiti Is Needed
17 Feb 2021
“President” Jovenel Moïse has dismantled the democratic institutions of the state and rules unilaterally with the support of the police, military and western allies.
Black Alliance For Peace
For Biden Administration, Black Lives Don’t Matter in Haiti!—A BAP Statement on Haiti
17 Feb 2021
The new US administration has already shown its support for paramilitary terror and political suppression in Haiti.
Sundiata Acoli
Black Liberation in Context: Political Prisoner Speaks on Torture at 2005 Human Rights Conference
17 Feb 2021
Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army political/prisoner of war Sundiata Acoli told human rights activists “torture is nothing new” in U.S.
Deirdre Cooper Owens
Medical Racism Has Shaped U.S. Policies for Centuries
17 Feb 2021
A Black medical truth-teller traces the link between a 1793 yellow fever epidemic and today’s coronavirus racial disparities.
Duana Fullwiley
DNA and Our Twenty-First-Century Ancestors
17 Feb 2021
Home DNA ancestry kits include no ancestors, instead comparing customers to other present-day people based on assumptions about race and ethnicity.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 15, 2021
15 Feb 2021
Neoliberals Seek to Establish Their Own Brand of Fascism
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Christian Theology Still Useful to Black Movement
15 Feb 2021
A progressive, liberationist theology can be useful to movements against both domestic politic repression and US imperial wars, said Dr Vincent Lloyd, professor of theology and Afr
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Anti-Police Activists are Doing Post-Slavery “Wake Work”
15 Feb 2021
Today’s Black Americans are living in “the wake” of centuries of slavery, said Dr Corey Miles, a professor of sociology and anthropology at Morgan State University.