African America

Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Black Radicalism and the Return of the “Subversive Negro”
16 Sep 2026
NSPM-7 and the State Department's international campaign against "far-left political terrorism" represent new and more dangerous forms of domestic repression in the 21st century, while reconstructing…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Colin Kaepernick’s “The Perilous Fight”
16 Sep 2026
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Colin Kaepernick.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Path Black to Socialism: Dispatches from the 2026 Socialism Conference
09 Sep 2026
Many in the U.S. "Left" are actually liberal elements that pull socialism toward the Democratic Party. Black organizers must build independent power.
Austin Cole
Attica Lives and Shares Lessons on Abolitionist Internationalism & Anti-Imperialist Solidarity
09 Sep 2026
The Attica rebellion was not only about prison "reform." The prison is the most intense expression of a system of imperialist domination that operates at every scale.
Michael Steven Smith
Meet the Radical Legal Collective That Won Justice for Fred Hampton and Continues Fighting to This Day
09 Sep 2026
Longtime attorney Flint Taylor’s new book tells the story of the People’s Law Collective, which grew out of the radical movements of the late 1960s.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Johanna Fernández and her Unrelenting Advocacy for Mumia Abu Jamal
19 Aug 2026
The late Dr. Johanna Fernández left an awesome intellectual and activist legacy that includes her 2010 documentary film “Justice on Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.”
Wolfgang Bronner
North Nashville's Reckoning: The Fight for Sovereignty in the Shadow of a Data Center
19 Aug 2026
Fisk University, an HBCU, is presenting a $400 million A.I. data center as progress for the North Nashville community. In truth, it means more pollution, more surveillance, and another chapter in a…
Ryan Kost
A Judge Said Queens Prosecutors Hid Evidence. A Secret Committee Cleared Them Anyway.
19 Aug 2026
The mass incarceration system demands thousands of Black bodies behind bars. That system is maintained by prosecutorial misconduct which goes unpunished. That impunity is integral to keeping the…
Karin Stanford
Afterlife of a Hijacker
11 Aug 2026
Former Black Panther Deputy Minister of Defense Byron Booth's journey from Compton to Cuba, Algiers to Lagos, reveals the global reach of Black radicalism in a 2016 interview.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
"Real Talk" from Kamala Harris on the Voting Rights Act Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
04 Aug 2026
The evisceration of the Voting Rights Act is of great concern to Black voters. But most of them are affiliated with the Democratic Party, whose leadership have no real interest in making it a…