US Politics

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Public Housing Neglect Creates Lethal Trap
20 Apr 2020
“You have these areas that are not clean and, on top of that, you have folks that don’t have access to health care because of racism and capitalism,” said Philip McHarris, a Y
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Covid-19 and the Black Working Class
20 Apr 2020
“Social distancing is sometimes not an option for us,” said New York City activist Betty Davis at a Black is Back Coalition national teleconference.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The End of Sanders, and Maybe the Beginning of a Mass Independent Left
16 Apr 2020
Sander’s early Return of the Prodigal Son to the bosom of the Party allows him to escape the deep critique of capitalist medicine and political-economy that would be required of a “leftish” preside
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Yellow Skin, White Masks: Andrew Yang and the Democratic Party’s School of White Supremacist Thought
15 Apr 2020
Yang’s hope that Asian-Americans fight racism by marrying themselves to American exceptionalism is nothing more than an attempt to maintain his own economic privileges.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The USS COVID-19, from Guam to Puget Sound
15 Apr 2020
While the world confronts a real-life deadly epidemic, the Covid-afflicted US Navy struggles to maintain the farce of keeping the planet safe from fictitious threats.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Coronavirus and the Crisis of African American Human Rights
15 Apr 2020
Pushing workers back to work and attempting to “normalize” the economy was the growing consensus among the capitalist class, not just Trump.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
…NOW’S THE TIME…
15 Apr 2020
coronavirus is coming across treacherous food deserts—their Red Lined decades of diabetes— over hills of hypertension; steep mountains of medical
Max Rameau
Capitalism’s Weak Doses of Socialism to Treat the Economic Infection of COVID-19
15 Apr 2020
The same proposals that were demonized yesterday as radical socialism are embraced today to save the society from collapse.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
15 Apr 2020
This week white supremacy and aggression on Venezuela were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adia Harvey Wingfield’s “Flatlining”
15 Apr 2020
How do black workers fare when organizations say they want to attract more minority employees even as they have largely shifted resources away from labor?