African America

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Whither Black Voters in 2024
03 May 2023
The duopoly trap for the 2024 election has been set, but Black voters can refuse to step into it.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: “I’ll Be Damned if I Go Back to Work Under Those Conditions!” Lucy E. Parsons, May 1, 1930
03 May 2023
A 1930 speech by Black anarchist and labor organizer, Lucy Parsons, recalls the radical origins of May Day.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Africans in the US are a Colonized People: A Comment on the Indictment of the African People's Socialist Party
03 May 2023
Red Scares, McCarthyism, COINTELPRO, "Black Identity Extremists" are all indicative of how the colonized are treated by the state.
Jacqueline Luqman
DOJ Indictment Against The APSP Is An Old Tactic In The Government's Perpetual War On Black Radical Organizing
03 May 2023
Federal indictments against the African People's Socialist Party are part of a long history of attacks on Black leftists.
Efia Nwangaza
COINTELPRO/Civil Rights Era Political Prisoners, Prisoners of War, Exiles Are on the Agenda of a UN Panel
03 May 2023
A United Nations panel of experts is in the US investigating the condition of political prisoners held in this country.
Richard S. Dunn
Harry Belafonte - Unashamedly Revolutionary
03 May 2023
The late Harry Belafonte was a great artist and also a committed revolutionary.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio April 28, 2023
28 Apr 2023
In this segment we discuss the shooting of Black teenager Ralph Yarl, how restoring voting rights of those convicted of felonies increases public safety, and Margaret Kimberley's thoughts on Joe…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Gerald Horne on U.S. Foreign Policy - Part 2
28 Apr 2023
Dr. Gerald Horne is an author and historian who currently holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Ralph Yarl and the History of Racist Violence
28 Apr 2023
Dr. Melina Abdullah is Director of Black Lives Matter Grassroots and Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles. She is also a Professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University Los…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Why Americans Are Shot at the "Wrong House"
26 Apr 2023
People in the U.S. venerate its violent history, support violence committed by the state, and remain very racist, yet express shock when individuals kill and maim.