African America

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Damien M. Sojoyner’s Book, “Joy and Pain”
11 Jan 2023
This week’s featured author is Damien M. Sojoyner. Sojoyner is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. His book is Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Adam Bledsoe
04 Jan 2023
This week’s featured scholar is Adam Bledsoe. Bledsoe is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota. His article “Neither Ground on Which to Stand, nor Self to Defend: The…
Jacqueline Luqman
Film Review: Netflix’s ‘Descendant’ Shows Capitalism Continues to Oppress African Descendants
04 Jan 2023
The trans-Atlantice slave trade did not end with the 1808 ban. The Clotilda arrived in 1860 and the descendants of those enslaved people are impacted by that history, as are all African people in the…
Jesse Barber , Simon McCormack
A Racial Disparity Across New York That is Truly Jarring
04 Jan 2023
Black people are disproportionately convicted of felonies across New York State. In Manhattan, a Black person is 21 times more likely to be convicted of a crime than a white person.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Brittney Griner and the U.S. State
14 Dec 2022
Brittney Griner's ordeal in Russia is over. But she has been secreted away for "reintegration" and the U.S. continues its own brand of international hostage taking.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Negroes Speak of War, Langston Hughes, 1933
14 Dec 2022
What benefits do Black folk get by endorsing or participating in the white man’s war? Revisiting an anti-war statement by Langston Hughes.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Where do they all come from???
14 Dec 2022
Where do they all come from???
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Community Control of Police in Chicago
09 Dec 2022
Frank Chapman is Executive Director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. That organization has led the fight for community control of the police, with the creation of the…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Unbelievable
07 Dec 2022
Unbelievable
Abayomi Azikiwe
Unjust Measures Imposed on Labor and African Americans After Midterm Elections
07 Dec 2022
The Biden administration and congress forced railroad workers to accept a contract without paid sick leave and Jackson, Mississippi residents face an administration consent decree on water…