US Politics

Roger Stoll
Mexico: First the Poor
09 Sep 2020
The country’s new leftist president struggles to honor his people’s "right to stay home" by fighting poverty and expanding access to education.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 7, 2020
07 Sep 2020
Black “Maternals” Yoked to the Wheel of Group Survival
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Arsenic and Agrarian Racial Capitalism
07 Sep 2020
The highly toxic herbicide and multi-purpose poison arsenic was key to the production of cotton in the United States and Mexico, and in the process sickened and killed a multitude of Black and brow
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Asa Hilliard’s Concept of “Africanized” Education
07 Sep 2020
Although famed educator Asa Hilliard died in 2007, his advocacy of “Africanized” teaching and thinking continues to gain adherents.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black “Maternals” Yoked to the Wheel of Group Survival
07 Sep 2020
Joy James, a professor of political, feminist and critical race theory at Williams College, believes the burden of day to day survival politics in Black American communities is bor
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The U.S. Is a Racist Militia
02 Sep 2020
U.S. cops are already racist and brutal, and any militia “infiltrators” would feel right at home.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Difference between the CPC and the DNC? A Study of Politics Versus Personalities
02 Sep 2020
Unlike Joe Biden, Xi Jinping’s report is centered, not on personality but on the actually-existing socialist system in China.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The US Has Long Led the Assault on Human Rights
02 Sep 2020
The historical record on U.S. human rights policies, both domestic and international, is one of hypocrisy, deceit, and denigration.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The NBA’s Black Power
02 Sep 2020
Black NBA players, writes Ann Garrison, are just beginning to understand the power of the attention and admiration they command.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Deja vu—Step 1 and Step 2?
02 Sep 2020
Is this Deja Vu— Step1 and Step 2? The long, long lines breaking with 12 years of Reaganite reaction in ’92 Slick Willy’s $campaign—his sax-