US Politics

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia on “Sex Wars”
14 Nov 2017
The scandals of Hollywood’s so-called “casting couch” have burst forth like a river, said the nation’s best known political prisoner, “and the names of nationally known politicians began to fill th
Dr. Matthew Quest
The Pioneering Critique of the Black Misleadership Class: E. Franklin Frazier’s The Black Bourgeoisie
09 Nov 2017
Published 60 years ago, Frazier’s The Black Bourgeoisie (1957) analyzed the social and political behavior of the African American middle class social strata that aspired to purpor
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Those Magical, Fantastical Russians vs. U.S. Empire
09 Nov 2017
“This induced ‘state of emergency’ is designed to prepare the American public, politically and psychologically, to maintain the momentum of the U.S.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Race, Repression and Russiagate: Defending Radical Black Self-Determination
08 Nov 2017
“Once again, Black opposition is being cast as somehow foreign influenced and, therefore, a security threat that justifies special targeted repression.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Donna Brazile -- No Honor Among Thieves
08 Nov 2017
“The Democratic Party had its thumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
A Brief Review of the Philadelphia Conference That Celebrated an Enemy of the US Government
08 Nov 2017
“The conference condemned the many ways in which Temple and other academies of ‘higher education’ fully collaborate with the gentrification, poverty, and oppression experienced by worki
James Hill, Jr.
Kneeling and the (Re)Signification of the Black Fantastic
08 Nov 2017
“By utilizing their seismic platform as well as the medium of mass communication, the performative act of kneeling during the anthem unsettles the naturalized mythos of the racial state
Mark P. Fancher
Buffalo Soldiers Go To Africa
08 Nov 2017
“The last thing any African in the US wants or needs is the prospect of death in pursuit of a corporate agenda in Africa.”
Prince Shakur
Youth Incarceration in the United States, Explained
08 Nov 2017
“First Lady Hillary Clinton referred to certain youths as ‘super-predators.’”
Peta Lindsay
Black Bolsheviks and White Lies: Reflections on the Black Radical Tradition
08 Nov 2017
“American blacks needed no outsiders to awaken their sense of the tremendous contradiction between America's professed beliefs and its actual practices.”