African America

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Karen Antoinette Scott’s Book, SACKRED Birth
06 Aug 2025
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Karen Antoinette Scott.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL: Centenary of Negro Emancipation, Marcus Garvey, 1934
30 Jul 2025
“When the American and West Indian Negroes get to know their history…they will have a greater love for the African through whom they have sprung.”
Jon Jeter
Betraying Howard Zinn: How the White Left Uses Scholarship to Undermine Black/White Solidarity
30 Jul 2025
Howard Zinn showed that scholarship can fuel solidarity and liberation—but now, some white leftists use it to undermine Black struggle.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Breaking it Down with Barron: The New York City Mayoral Race, New York City Politics, and a Primer for an Independent Black Revolutionary Polity
30 Jul 2025
Charles Barron dissects the NYC mayoral race, Mamdani’s struggles with Black voters, and why independent Black radical politics are essential.
Imani Nile
The Scramble for Mount Vernon? How Capitalists and their Black Middlemen are Colonizing the Jewel of Westchester County, New York
23 Jul 2025
A majority Black city in Westchester County, a northern suburb of New York City, suffers from years of Black political misleadership and is now under threat by real estate developers who envision the…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL: After the Olympics: Buying off Protest, Harry Edwards, 1969
16 Jul 2025
“Racists don’t give up easily, we learned, and the racists in sports are especially dedicated.”
Aja Arnold
From the Atlanta Race Massacre to Cop City: The AJC Incites Harm
16 Jul 2025
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution never stopped printing racist lies—it just upgraded its fonts.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL: Even During Disaster, The Pittsburgh Courier, 1927
09 Jul 2025
“Neither disaster, catastrophe, nor calamity can take precedence … over the color-caste system.”
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Collaborators Like Al Sharpton Can’t Assist Zohran Mamdani with Circumventing Pigmentation Politics and the Black Misleadership Class…But Principled Black Radical Organizing Can
09 Jul 2025
Zohran Mamdani’s victory rattled NYC’s political elite. But to win Black voters and defeat the Democrat machine, he must reject Al Sharpton’s co-optation and align with radical Black organizers.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Necessity of Birthright Citizenship for Black People
02 Jul 2025
Black citizenship was non-existent for the first 200 years that enslaved and free people were present in what became the United States. Even long-standing legal victories are tenuous, and now…