African America

BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Slick Willy and the sandwiches
18 Sep 2019
Slick Willy swears he only took four flights and gorged himself on peanut butter and jelly Sandwiches—take off to landing…
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
18 Sep 2019
This week you wrote back about Hollywood imperial propaganda and the firing of John Bolton. We share your comments on “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Patricia Pinho’s “Mapping Diaspora”
18 Sep 2019
Transnational black solidarity has been a central component of African American roots tourism in Brazil, even as international tourism also allows for the enactment of first-world subjectivities.…
T.P. Wilkinson
How to Find a Tiger in Africa: Searching for Agostinho Neto (1922 –1979)
18 Sep 2019
The history of liberated Angola, like the history of the world, cannot be told by humanity’s oppressors.
Mark P. Fancher
“Operation Brown Nose” -- U.S. Aids French Dirty Work in Africa
18 Sep 2019
The U.S. has gone extra miles to support French military efforts to protect uranium mining in Niger.
Benjamin Balthaser
Racial Violence in Black and White
18 Sep 2019
From photos of lynchers to videos of brutal cops, there is a radical heritage of using images of violence as instruments of critique.
Erica Caines
Failures of The US Left
18 Sep 2019
The “US Left” conveniently ignores that you can’t be a socialist and not also be anti-imperialist.
BAR staff
Black Agenda Report’s 13thAnniversary: An Evening of Information and Inspiration for Liberation, and a Tribute to Co-Founder Bruce Dixon
18 Sep 2019
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Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
US Schools are a “Carceral” and “Punitive Landscape”
16 Sep 2019
For students of color in the US, schooling has long been a “carceral condition,” said Connie Wun, a researcher and advocate for women and girls, who wrote an influential artic
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Blacks Pay High Price for Bad Healthcare
16 Sep 2019
Dr Leslie Hinkson, author of “Subprime Health: Debt and Race in US Medicine,” said Black people “get bad care, and that not only leads to further undermining of their health,