African America

Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Return of Hillary Clinton
23 Oct 2019
It’s not clear if smear-mongering Clinton is running for president, or just fleeing reality. “Her reappearance spells disaster for the Democratic Party.”
by BAR Staff
Black Agenda Report’s 13th Anniversary: An Evening of Information and Inspiration for Liberation, and a Tribute to Co-Founder Bruce Dixon
23 Oct 2019
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BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Neo-Con Chippendales
23 Oct 2019
White phosphorus Pony, nuclear bumps and grinds; sulfur stench shimmies, twisted Third Reich minds— bending, ‘amending’ yellowed, ragged redacted pages
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
23 Oct 2019
This week readers discuss lead-poisoned water in Newark and the the imperialist attack on Syria. We share your letters for “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: AbdouMaliq Simone’s “Improvised Lives”
23 Oct 2019
An exploration of how to simultaneously act on and under radars of all kinds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Karla Holloway’s “A Death in Harlem”
23 Oct 2019
This novel puts the “too often secreted issues of intraracial classism and colorism” up front and center, along with Black cop contradictions and color-coded witnesses.
Mindy Isser
Why I’m Voting No On UAW’s Deal With GM: A “Third-Tier” Worker
23 Oct 2019
How can a union tolerate three or four different “tiers” of workers, with different pay scales and rights, and then call for “solidarity”?
Joe Iosbaker
“The Damned Don’t Cry: Pages from the Life of a Black Prisoner and Organizer” -- a Review of a book by Frank Edgar Chapman, Jr.
23 Oct 2019
Frank Chapman’s book should be on the shelf with the Autobiography of Malcolm X and Soledad Brother.
by BAR Staff
Black Agenda Report’s 13th Anniversary: An Evening of Information and Inspiration for Liberation, and a Tribute to Co-Founder Bruce Dixon
23 Oct 2019
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-agenda-reports-13th-anniversary-tickets-72333259727
Jay Reeves
America’s Last Slave Ship Could Offer a Case for Reparations
23 Oct 2019
The riches that accrued from the last US slave shipment are in plain site of the voyage’s descendants in Mobile, Alabama.