African America

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: R.A. Judy’s Book, “Sentient Flesh”
09 Sep 2020
The long tradition of radical black critique in popular forms of expression gives us material on which to model our re-imagining of the world.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jasmine Mitchell‘s “Imagining the Mulatta”
09 Sep 2020
The mulatta serves as a strategy of containment of Blackness through logics of racial management.
David A Bell
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
09 Sep 2020
The fierce fighter against slavery defeated European armies but died in a cold French prison.
Calvin Duncan
End the Injustice of Nonunanimous Juries
09 Sep 2020
Non-unanimous verdicts allow ten jurors to “simply ignore the views of their fellow panel members of a different race or class.”
Ali Winston
Decades-Old Gang Laws Are Being Used to Target Black Lives Matter Protesters
09 Sep 2020
By using gang laws, authorities can do an end run around First Amendment protections on freedom of association
Ahjamu Umi
The Role of the Black Bourgeoisie in Coopting Our Movements
09 Sep 2020
The Black bourgeoisie, including the next generation of them after Obama, will continue to derail us with their empty promises of inclusion.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 7, 2020
07 Sep 2020
Black “Maternals” Yoked to the Wheel of Group Survival
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Arsenic and Agrarian Racial Capitalism
07 Sep 2020
The highly toxic herbicide and multi-purpose poison arsenic was key to the production of cotton in the United States and Mexico, and in the process sickened and killed a multitude of Black and brow
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Asa Hilliard’s Concept of “Africanized” Education
07 Sep 2020
Although famed educator Asa Hilliard died in 2007, his advocacy of “Africanized” teaching and thinking continues to gain adherents.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black “Maternals” Yoked to the Wheel of Group Survival
07 Sep 2020
Joy James, a professor of political, feminist and critical race theory at Williams College, believes the burden of day to day survival politics in Black American communities is bor