US Politics

Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Useful Tool: Kamala “Heartbeat Away” Harris
15 Oct 2020
If Biden wins, Kamala Harris will be put forward as a kind of “co-president,” as a palliative for the lack of substantive relief from the forces that are plaguing Black lives.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The United States is a Sick Society That Produced Two Sick Options for President
14 Oct 2020
The US dictatorship of capital provides the people with a non-choice between two vile and racist presidential candidates.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Freeing “Hotel Rwanda” Hero Paul Rusesabagina
14 Oct 2020
The man portrayed by Don Cheadle in the movie about mass slaughter in Rwanda was kidnapped and jailed by the country’s dictator, writes Ann Garrison.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
…Freakish flight of the fearless Fly…
14 Oct 2020
There sat the morally constipated politician fartin’ ‘round with truth like an amateur magician… Locked, loaded, flinging fecal matter at a class mate…
Robin D.G. Kelly
Getting to Freedom City
14 Oct 2020
In the 1960s LA communities of color prioritized a radical tradition of care and the transformative power of art and politics.
Michele Bratcher Goodwin
We Can’t Be Free Until We Fully Abolish Slavery
14 Oct 2020
Through a loophole in the 13th Amendment, governments and corporations profit from cheap, incarcerated labor.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Maureen Mahon’s “Black Diamond Queens”
14 Oct 2020
The standard version of rock and roll history does not allot much space at all to the discussion of African American women.
Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent
Health Justice and Black Liberation: Dána-Ain Davis
14 Oct 2020
We can disentangle care from capitalism by increasing community-generated and community-led models of caring.
Pan Africanism Today Secretariat
A Milestone for South African Shack Dwellers Movement
14 Oct 2020
Abahlali baseMjondolo celebrates 15 years of revolutionary struggle for land, housing and dignity.
Interview by Alex N. Press
Why They Let Breonna Taylor’s Killer Go Free
14 Oct 2020
People in Louisville were in motion, but the politicians shy away from “the massive transformative changes that we demand.”