African America

Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
29 Jan 2020
This week readers discuss Democratic Party racism and the abuse of Martin Luther King’s legacy. We share your letters for “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Fikile Nxumalo’s “Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education”
29 Jan 2020
The author rejects ways of teaching that distort Black young people’s relationships with the natural world.
Randal Maurice Jelks
Black Abolitionists Believed in Taking Up Arms
29 Jan 2020
Long before the Civil War, Black abolitionists shared the consensus that violence would be necessary to end slavery.
Matthew Miles Goodrich
The Forgotten Socialist History of Martin Luther King Jr.
29 Jan 2020
MLK was dreaming of a socialist future long before the tumultuous decade of the Sixties.
Earl Hazell
Blues for Jimmy: In Celebration of the Life of Jimmy Heath
29 Jan 2020
The author studied jazz composition and arranging under “a funny, smart-aleck, short, kind, genius composer and tenor sax player” – a musical giant.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 27, 2020
27 Jan 2020
African Peoples Socialist Party Heightens Global Struggle
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Claudia Jones: Black Feminist Fighter for Socialism
27 Jan 2020
Zifeng Liu, a doctoral student in Africana Studies at Cornell University, has authored a paper on Black activist Claudia Jones, who was deported from the US for her communist affil
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
African Peoples Socialist Party Heightens Global Struggle
27 Jan 2020
Omali Yeshitela said his African Peoples Socialist Party’s upcoming plenary gathering is designed to “build and strengthen the regional components of our party through the wor
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Internet Does Washington’s Dirty Work
22 Jan 2020
As long as the internet is in private hands it should be seen as a “frenemy” -- a useful resource that can also be wielded as a weapon.
Eric Mann
Martin Luther King and the Black Revolutionary Tradition
22 Jan 2020
Dr. King brought a powerful and frontal indictment of the system of white supremacist, racist, capitalism.