US Politics

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power
16 May 2018
“All of the women in the book envisioned new and expansive visions of black liberation.”
Tryon P. Woods
“Stand Your Ground”: Siwatu-Salama Ra and Black Self-Defense, Part 2
16 May 2018
“In a slaveholding society such as ours, even after the formal institution of chattel slavery has ended, each and every legal principle ultimately expresses the foundational antagonism
R. Divya Nair
“The Truth Shall Make You Free”: The Friendship Of Paul Robeson, Shirley Graham Du Bois, and W.E.B Du Bois
16 May 2018
“Robeson and the Du Boises knew that the struggle against European imperialism had to be waged on both the material as well as the ideological front.”
Sam Levin
Balogun Speaks Out on FBI Surveillance of “Black Identity Extremists”
16 May 2018
“Balogun is believed to be the first person targeted and prosecuted under the secretive program.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia Abu Jamal Salutes “Father of Black Liberation Theology”
15 May 2018
The nation’s best known political prisoner noted the passing of Dr. James Cone, the renowned Black scholar who played a central role in the development of Black liberation theology.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Renters Need Affordable Housing – and Lawyers
15 May 2018
Three out of four evicted famiies would not have been kicked out of their homes if they had had adequate legal representation, according to a report by the National Law Center on Homelessness and P
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Ajamu Baraka, of the Black Alliance for Peace: Any Real Peace Movement Must Be Anti-Imperialist
15 May 2018
“Solidarity in building an anti-imperialist movement is a fundamental responsibility” of all people that want peace, said Ajamu Baraka, lead organizer of the Black Alliance for Pea
Rev. William Barber
Rev. William Barber Sermon on Militarism
11 May 2018
Rev. William Barber II, leader of the Poor People's Campaign, spoke at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC, on May 6.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Barber Sermon on Militarism Reveals Philosophical & Political Limitations of the Poor Peoples Campaign
11 May 2018
"Rev. Barber speaks for the politically leftish wing of the Institutional Church in the US, which has pretty much anointed him the mantle of the Rev. Dr.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Trump Wages Economic War on the Planet
10 May 2018
“Trump is a man with no foreign policy of his own, but who is currently acting like a hand-puppet of -- not Russia, but Israel and its de facto ally, Saudi Arabia.”