US Politics

Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Donna Brazile -- No Honor Among Thieves
08 Nov 2017
“The Democratic Party had its thumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
A Brief Review of the Philadelphia Conference That Celebrated an Enemy of the US Government
08 Nov 2017
“The conference condemned the many ways in which Temple and other academies of ‘higher education’ fully collaborate with the gentrification, poverty, and oppression experienced by worki
James Hill, Jr.
Kneeling and the (Re)Signification of the Black Fantastic
08 Nov 2017
“By utilizing their seismic platform as well as the medium of mass communication, the performative act of kneeling during the anthem unsettles the naturalized mythos of the racial state
Mark P. Fancher
Buffalo Soldiers Go To Africa
08 Nov 2017
“The last thing any African in the US wants or needs is the prospect of death in pursuit of a corporate agenda in Africa.”
Prince Shakur
Youth Incarceration in the United States, Explained
08 Nov 2017
“First Lady Hillary Clinton referred to certain youths as ‘super-predators.’”
Peta Lindsay
Black Bolsheviks and White Lies: Reflections on the Black Radical Tradition
08 Nov 2017
“American blacks needed no outsiders to awaken their sense of the tremendous contradiction between America's professed beliefs and its actual practices.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Puerto Rico Getting the Detroit Treatment
07 Nov 2017
Puerto Rico, a hurricane-ravaged colony of the U.S., has been subjected to much the same financial dictatorship as Detroit, a Black internal colony, said Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Rex Tillerson is “Yesterday’s Man”
07 Nov 2017
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who some fellow Republicans believe has been politically “castrated” by President Trump, demanded that Iran get out of Iraq, its neighbor and close ally.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
“Africologists” Will Snitch on You
07 Nov 2017
“Cultural nationalists” -- including those that call themselves Africologists -- “don’t want to change the world; they want to change how they can move in it,” said activist Kashara White
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
“Swipe It Forward “
07 Nov 2017
Black Youth Project 100 activists are urging New York City subway commuters to share their unlimited fare cards with poorer riders.