US Politics

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Racial Capitalism, Black Liberation, and South Africa
16 Dec 2020
The phrase racial capitalism first emerged in the context of the anti-Apartheid and southern African liberation struggles in the 1970s.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
When Austerity’s Chickens Came Home to Roost in the U.S., Bernie and “the Squad” were Unprepared
16 Dec 2020
The theory of change that depicts the likes of Bernie Sanders and AOC as the leaders of the class struggle has failed to materialize in reality.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Imagine: The Town Crier’s Cabinet Selections
16 Dec 2020
Cut plastic cuffs from imaginations— Dream larger in dire situations… IMAGINE every cook governing— every governor cooking up people puzzles—right livelihood alchemy…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Agenda 2021: Resist the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination
16 Dec 2020
It is critical that the Black left understand U.S./European imperialism as a race project, and organize accordingly.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The Planet’s Problem from Hell: Samantha Power
16 Dec 2020
As head of USAID, Power will be in perfect position to wield foreign aid as a cudgel for beating foreign heads of state till they bow to US empire, writes Ann Garrison.
BAR Comments Editor Jahan Choudhry
Letters from Our Readers
16 Dec 2020
This week the incoming administration was on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Yelena Bailey’s “How the Streets Were Made”
16 Dec 2020
The streets permeate dominant understandings of Blackness, and the life-and-death consequences of these perceptions are at the heart of this book.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Grace A. Musila’s Book, “Wangari Maathai's Registers of Freedom”
16 Dec 2020
Maathai’s approach to environmental conservation centers poor rural communities, especially women, and their need for fuel, fodder and income
Selamawit D. Terrefe
On Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III
16 Dec 2020
Afro-pessimism theorizes slavery as a social relation which distinguishes Blackness as a paradigmatic position antithetical to humans.
Too Black
The Myth of the Perfect Victim
16 Dec 2020
The denial of Black humanity is essential to the order of racial capitalism, and dictates that Blacks deserve whatever treatment they get.