African America

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Patriot Front and What Once Was Chocolate City
08 Jul 2026
The Patriot Front’s bold incursions into U.S. cities are a sign of their burgeoning strength and of the weakness of Black movement politics.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
INTERVIEW: “I was deported because I fought colour bar” Claudia Jones, 1956
08 Jul 2026
“I was deported from the U.S.A, because as a Negro woman Communist of West Indian descent, I was a thorn in their side…”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
LYRICS: Bicentennial Blues, Gil Scott-Heron, 1976
01 Jul 2026
“George Washington/Slave-owner general/Ironic that the father of this country/ Should be a slave owner/The father of this country a slave-owner.”
Mark P. Fancher
If You are Born in this Country with Black skin, You are Already in Jail
24 Jun 2026
Malcolm X explained it well. Every Black person in this country is a prisoner, sometimes literally behind bars, and sometimes on the outside of jail, but a prisoner, nonetheless.
Janine Jackson
How Many Ways Can You Avoid Reporting That Cops Killed a Baby?
24 Jun 2026
A one-year-old baby was shot dead by police, but corporate media shield the police and their barbaric actions with a passive voice.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Knicks and New York's Disappearing Black Communities
17 Jun 2026
It is true that the New York Knicks' journey to a championship brought disparate communities together, but gentrification remains the norm in the city that is the capital of capital. Black people are…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Reconstruction, Seventy-Five Years After, W. E. B. Du Bois, 1943
17 Jun 2026
“Without the help of the American Negro, the abolition movement would have been impossible.”
Dr. Gerald Horne
Juneteenth Book Signing & Lecture with Prof. Gerald Horne
17 Jun 2026
Prof. Gerald Horne’s book signing and lecture in Brooklyn, New York on June 19.
Gregory P. Downs
The Hidden History of Juneteenth
17 Jun 2026
Most people think Juneteenth was simply when enslaved Texans learned they were free, but that is a myth. They knew the war ended but the fight for freedom did not end with one proclamation; it took…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Gambling Man
10 Jun 2026
"Gambling Man" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.