African America

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: B. Brian Foster’s “I Don’t Like the Blues”
10 Dec 2020
What happens if we really pay attention to what black folks in the rural South are saying and doing in their everyday lives?
Aaron Greene
Lynchings By Law
10 Dec 2020
The Trump administration plans to execute five people before there is a change of power. “The death penalty is the ultimate human rights violation.”
Kelly Urban
The Right to Live in Health and Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution: A Review
10 Dec 2020
Cuban medical professionals created a project to join science and statecraft and secure health as a fundamental right of citizenship.
Dr. Kweli Nzito
Hierarchies of Modern Western Colonialism
10 Dec 2020
Imperialists continue to exercise control of former colonies from the comfort of their metropolises as their former subjects appear resigned to their post-colonial fates.
Marjoleine Kars
Reckoning With Slavery: What a Revolt’s Archives Tells Us About Who Owns the Past
10 Dec 2020
Writing one’s own history is an act of emancipation. “Former slaves organized a government and controlled most of the colony.”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Masses Not Yet Sold on Defunding the Police
08 Dec 2020
Lawrence Grandpre, research director for the Baltimore-based activist organization “Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle,” agrees in principle with the demand for defunding police but d
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Reparations Not Yet a “Mainstream” Demand
08 Dec 2020
Reparations “hasn’t reached the point where there’s really a discussion among white politicians” on the merits of the issue, said Zuri Arman Kent-Smith, a writer and activist with
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford , Rebecca Ann Wilcox
Beware Biden-Harris Neoliberalism
08 Dec 2020
Corporate Democrats may be more dangerous than overt racists, because neoliberals “cloak themselves in the rhetoric of ‘racial uplift,’” said Rebecca Ann Wilcox, a community organi
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
BLM Chapters Demand “Accountability” from Trio that Cashed in on the Movement
03 Dec 2020
Ten chapters of the national Black Lives Matter organization are in open revolt against the individuals that have treated the mass movement as their personal vehicle for upward political, prof
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Israel and the U.S. Assassinate Peace
02 Dec 2020
Israel and Saudi Arabia are doing everything in their power to prevent Biden from rejoining the nuclear agreement -- and Biden’s team has nothing to say.