African America

Jamal Rich
Howard University Sit-in: A Struggle for Democracy at an HBCU
20 Oct 2021
Students at Howard University have historically been in the forefront of movement struggles.
Sarah Sax
Black families Passed Their Homes from One Generation to the Next. Now They May Be Lost.
13 Oct 2021
Unstable property rights mean Black southerners may survive a flood but lose their home, and it’s causing the racial wealth gap to grow larger.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Obama Presidential Center Will Displace Black People
13 Oct 2021
The Obama Presidential Center will inevitably displace a working class Black community in Chicago.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
I’m no nuanced Negro, but…
13 Oct 2021
I’m no nuanced Negro, but… I’m no nuanced Negro—never have been—never will be. I’m a lower the forks, pick up the pallet, put it on the
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Build Back Better Legislation: New Keynesianism or Neoliberal Public Relations Stunt?
13 Oct 2021
Some provisions of Biden’s “Build Back Better” legislation benefit the masses of Black people, but this legislation is a bare minimum effort to blunt some of the sharpest contradictions of the
Miriam Miranda
Afro-Indigenous People in Honduras Are Being Forcibly Displaced. Washington Is Complicit.
13 Oct 2021
Many would-be migrants, like the Garifuna, would love nothing more than to stay in their homes. It’s Washington that’s making it difficult.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
STATEMENT: Black Caucus Protest at the African Studies Association, Montreal, October, 1969
13 Oct 2021
Black challenges to white control of African Studies at the 1969 African Studies Association meeting in Montreal exposed the deeply entrenched racism within, and the imperialist leanings of, th
Danny Haiphong and Margaret Kimberley
U.S. Imperialism in Africa with Abayomi Azikiwe
13 Oct 2021
Abayomi Azikiwe of Pan-African News Wire joined Danny Haiphong and Margaret Kimberley to discuss AFRICOM and U.S./NATO imperialist actions on the African continent.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
San Francisco Court’s Racist Denial of the Constitutional Right to a Speedy Trial
13 Oct 2021
San Francisco Public Defender Manohar Raju spoke to Ann Garrison about why his office is suing San Francisco Superior Court for denying hundreds of Black and Brown people the speedy trial right
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin’s “Anarchism and the Black Revolution”
13 Oct 2021
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book.