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Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
March, March, March… (For Million Worker March and Brother Ray Quan)
30 Apr 2025
"March, March, March… (For Million Worker March and Brother Ray Quan)" is the latest from BAR's Poet-In-Residence.
Janvieve Williams Comrie , Chevy Solís Acevedo
Analysis: The Importance of Race, Class, and Territorial Sovereignty in Panama Amid Trump’s Canal Threats
15 Jan 2025
Before beginning his term in office, president-elect Donald Trump already proclaimed his intention to seize the Panama Canal. Understanding the importance of the canal and the history of labor, race…
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
Harry Haywood, Black People, and the 2024 U.S. Election
27 Nov 2024
Harry Haywood’s work is a guiding light to help Black people analyze our position in the U.S. and rethink how we might engage in electoral politics. Are we building power toward revolution or are we…
Jon Jeter
Understanding the White Supremacy at the Center of the 'Class Over Race' Debate
20 Sep 2023
Any talk of discussing class instead of racism is disingenuous in a country which uses every opportunity to indulge in anti-Black racism. The history of racism in the labor movement is just one…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: Forge Negro-Labor Unity for Peace and Jobs, Paul Robeson, 1950
12 Apr 2023
Paul Robeson’s 1950 speech to the delegates of the National Labor Conference for Negro Rights should remind us that there is no Black liberation struggle without the Black working masses.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
INTERVIEW: A Talk with Sylvia Woods, 1974
15 Mar 2023
An inspiring interview with Sylvia Woods highlights the role of Black women in labor organizing and demonstrates that Black women should always be at the forefront.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Saladin Muhammad Presente!
28 Sep 2022
Saladin Muhammad was the founder of Black Workers for Justice. He played a key role in developing Black revolutionary labor organizing.
Too Black
Laboring Beyond Black Representation
06 Apr 2022
The allure of Black representation in high places can be very dangerous. A Black man organizes an unprecedented union victory but gets less attention than one celebrity slapping another. Yet it is…
Saladin Muhammad
Bessemer Alabama Amazon Workers Continue Struggle to Unionize
23 Mar 2022
The mostly Black labor force at an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama will have a second opportunity to vote for unionization.
Eugene Puryear
The Realities of Temp Work
16 Feb 2022
Poverty, wage theft, injuries, and even death are features of the temporary employment system.