African America

Adofo Minka
The Self-Confessed Bankruptcy of Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba
01 Jul 2020
Jackson, Mississippi’s Black mayor is celebrated as a “radical” in some quarters, but his cops kill, maim and abuse Black people just like police forces everywhere in the US.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Yes, Defund the Cops – And Put Them Under Community Control
25 Jun 2020
Community control of the police means empowering the people to shape and oversee the mechanisms of their own security and end forever the armed occupation of our communities by hostile forces.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Democrats Move Right and Towards Defeat
24 Jun 2020
Besides not being Trump, the Democrats offer nothing, but think they can win with a candidate who has no constituency, charisma or any platform positions that would attract more voters.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Movement to Abolish the Police Must Place Politics in Command
24 Jun 2020
Community control of the police offers a concrete vision for what the beginnings of police abolition might look like.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The Responsibility to Protect? Bipartisan Crimes Against Humanity in the U.S.
24 Jun 2020
The US committed crimes against humanity by creating the conditions that led to sickness and death for vulnerable sectors of the U.S. population
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Notes on the Coloniality of Peace
24 Jun 2020
The “peace” our enemies want is mounted on brutal war and in its continuation in modern/colonial law and order.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Who’s a Worker? (for Leo, Clarence, Jack, Trent and ILWU Local 10 Brothers and Sisters)
24 Jun 2020
I’ve prepped produce; bagged bread; stocked shelves; pulled products for- ward on shelves of several stores. So I bring nothing but love for frontline
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
24 Jun 2020
This week community control of police, rage in protests, and the black political class were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar’s “Deadly Biocultures”
24 Jun 2020
Market logics, commodification, extraction, and exploitation condition our possibilities for life and expose many to ever-expanding forms of precarity.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Lola Olufemi’s “Feminism, Interrupted”
24 Jun 2020
The political project we are invested in will require long term conviction and must be internationalist in its orientation.