African America

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sabrina Strings’s “Fearing the Black Body”
21 Aug 2019
Fat stigma is rooted incolonial-era race science, and specifically in anti-blackness, says the author.
Jake Johnson
Sanders Unveils Plan to “Fundamentally Transform” Criminal Legal System
21 Aug 2019
The presidential candidate calls for people to “stand together” to end the war on drugs and cut the prison population in half.
Wilmer J. Leon III
“Jay-Z” Did Not Sell Out, He Bought In
21 Aug 2019
Like the scorpion in the folk parable, it’s in Jay-Z’s nature to make a killing – at Kaepernick and the community’s expense.
Paul Street
Uncle Sam was Born Lethal
21 Aug 2019
Donald Trump is indeed a neofascist, but the US was built on a mass murderous white supremacism that, until recently, was unapologetically genocidal.
Eli Day
Socialists of Color to the Front
21 Aug 2019
LeftRoots’ stated purpose: to strategize around “21st-century socialism” and then bring people together to help get there.
Rohn Kenyatta
Black People in America Cannot Be Racist (As Much As They Might Like To Be)
21 Aug 2019
Black people in the US may not like white people, for good reason, but lack the power to construct an anti-white racism.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Caucus in Thrall, or Fear, of Israel
20 Aug 2019
“The Israelis may have finally stepped on the third rail of congressional relations, with their joint decision with President Trump to ban Omar and Tlaib.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 19, 2019
19 Aug 2019
Black Is Back Coalition Holds National Conference in St. Louis
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Jim Crow Still Lives in Hollywood
19 Aug 2019
The US film industry is more open to Black themes and participation than in the past, but still has not answered the question of what kind of society it will project, said Maryann Erig
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Trump Isn’t Special: All US Presidents Support White Supremacy
19 Aug 2019
William C Anderson, author of a recent article titled, “Using Patriotism to Deflect Racism is a Deadly Mistake,” said “the Oval Office is quite familiar” with white supremacists li