African America

Dean Spade and Roberto Sirvent, BAR Contributors
BAR Abolition & Mutual Aid Spotlight: La Resistencia
22 Apr 2020
Public pressure works. Some local entities are not willing to work with ICE anymore.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Joshua Bennett’s “Being Property Once Myself”
22 Apr 2020
Black thought is environmental thought and Black Studies is, at its core, an ecological critique.
Linn Washington
Wrong On Weed – Blacks And Marijuana Myths
22 Apr 2020
Black state lawmakers helped scuttle efforts to legalize marijuana in the Garden State and Black preachers have been huge impediments to legalization.
Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Mike Davis On Pandemics, Super-capitalism and the Struggles of Tomorrow
22 Apr 2020
Capitalist globalization means accepting a permanent triage of humanity and dooming part of the human race to eventual extinction.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 20, 2020
20 Apr 2020
Covid-19 and the Black Working Class
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Public Housing Neglect Creates Lethal Trap
20 Apr 2020
“You have these areas that are not clean and, on top of that, you have folks that don’t have access to health care because of racism and capitalism,” said Philip McHarris, a Y
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Covid-19 and the Black Working Class
20 Apr 2020
“Social distancing is sometimes not an option for us,” said New York City activist Betty Davis at a Black is Back Coalition national teleconference.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The End of Sanders, and Maybe the Beginning of a Mass Independent Left
16 Apr 2020
Sander’s early Return of the Prodigal Son to the bosom of the Party allows him to escape the deep critique of capitalist medicine and political-economy that would be required of a “leftish” preside
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Yellow Skin, White Masks: Andrew Yang and the Democratic Party’s School of White Supremacist Thought
15 Apr 2020
Yang’s hope that Asian-Americans fight racism by marrying themselves to American exceptionalism is nothing more than an attempt to maintain his own economic privileges.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Coronavirus and the Crisis of African American Human Rights
15 Apr 2020
Pushing workers back to work and attempting to “normalize” the economy was the growing consensus among the capitalist class, not just Trump.