US Politics

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Moya Bailey’s “Misogynoir Transformed”
10 Feb 2021
The author maintains it is a myth that digital activism is less important than the organizing being done on the ground.
Former Inland Empire BLM
Black Lives Matter Inland Empire Announces Break WIth BLM Global Network
10 Feb 2021
Black Lives Matter Inland Empire, in an open letter, last week announced its departure from the cash-heavy Black Lives Global Network.
Joshua F.J. Inwood and Anna Livia Brand
Slave-built Infrastructure and Reparations
10 Feb 2021
US cities from Atlanta to New York City still use buildings, roads, ports and rail lines built by enslaved people.
Minkah Makalani
Cedric Robinson and the Origins of Race
10 Feb 2021
An examination Robinson’s body of work can enrich our understanding of racial capitalism and offer additional tools for overcoming our political impasse.
Mya Shone
The Vaccine Distribution Crisis: Capitalism in its Death Agony
10 Feb 2021
The hoarding of existing supply and the refusal to create a vast public infrastructure capable of producing and distributing COVID-19 vaccines are inherent consequences of capitalism.
Caitlin Johnstone
Electoral Politics Use The Same Containment Strategies As Alzheimer’s Facilities
10 Feb 2021
The US electoral system is like a dementia facility run by Democratic Party staff members pretending to want the same thing we want. “It’s a locked facility.”
Margaret Flowers
Popular Resistance: The Anti-War Movement Must Not Go Back to Sleep Under Biden
10 Feb 2021
Biden has chosen the most diverse group of war mongers and torture supporters the nation has ever had.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 8, 2021
08 Feb 2021
Activists Seed Public Schools With Black Liberation Curriculum
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black American Slave Legacy Inherited by Diaspora Immigrants
08 Feb 2021
Black immigrants are not included in the standard American immigration story because newcomers from the African diaspora “inherit the legacy” of US Black chattel slavery, said Kovie Biakolo
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Political Party Puts Grassroots Organizing First
08 Feb 2021
Although the Baltimore-based Ujima People’s Progress Party has engaged in electoral politics during its decade of operations, its focus is grassroots organizing, mutual aid, and political education