African America

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Ongoing Covid Disaster
23 Mar 2022
Pollsters have advised Joe Biden to declare covid over. But the pandemic revealed all the shortcomings of a political system which is dedicated to austerity and to protecting capitalist…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Aria S. Halliday’s “Buy Black”
23 Mar 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Aria S. Halliday. Halliday is Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and…
Saladin Muhammad
Bessemer Alabama Amazon Workers Continue Struggle to Unionize
23 Mar 2022
The mostly Black labor force at an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama will have a second opportunity to vote for unionization.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Black Caucus Fails on Ukraine
15 Mar 2022
The members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) follow Biden's Ukraine policy in lock step. In doing so they fail their constituents and discredit the legacy of Black politic
Jaime Alves
Soy Porque Somos (I Am Because We Are): a Black-women-led and Life-Based Project for a New Colombia
15 Mar 2022
This article was written before the March 13 primaries when Francia Marquez received more than 780,000 votes. She received more votes than any Black politician in Colombian history. Would her…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Marlon B. Ross’ “Sissy Insurgencies”
15 Mar 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Robin Brooks’ “Class Interruptions”
15 Mar 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Robin Brooks. Brooks is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of…
Donald Earl Collins
America’s New Dystopian Normal
15 Mar 2022
The high covid death toll in this country is a result of capitalist austerity policies.
Lina Lucumi Mosquera and Lizeth Sinisterra Ossa
#SomosLosNadie
08 Mar 2022
Francia Marquez is a Black Colombian woman, an environmentalist, and presidential candidate. Her campaign represents "the nobodies, those who have not had a choice."
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Yolanda Covington-Ward and Jeanette S. Jouili’s Book, “Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas”
02 Mar 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book.