African America

Josmar Trujillo
How Prosecutors Use Conspiracy and Questionable Testimony in “Gang” Cases
26 Oct 2021
Conspiracy laws, RICO statutes and "gang" designations are tools of police and prosecutorial misconduct and the maintenance of the mass incarceration state.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Many Crimes of Colin Powell
20 Oct 2021
Colin Powell's death is an opportunity to question the inclination to respect the Black face in a high place. Powell's career includes a litany of crimes that must never be excused.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: Frederick Douglass on John Brown, 1860
20 Oct 2021
In an 1860 speech commemorating radical abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harper’s Ferry, Frederick Douglass argued that slavery would only end if the slave owner feared the violent retribution
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Joshua Myers’ Book, “Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition”
20 Oct 2021
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book.
Jamal Rich
Howard University Sit-in: A Struggle for Democracy at an HBCU
20 Oct 2021
Students at Howard University have historically been in the forefront of movement struggles.
Sarah Sax
Black families Passed Their Homes from One Generation to the Next. Now They May Be Lost.
13 Oct 2021
Unstable property rights mean Black southerners may survive a flood but lose their home, and it’s causing the racial wealth gap to grow larger.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Obama Presidential Center Will Displace Black People
13 Oct 2021
The Obama Presidential Center will inevitably displace a working class Black community in Chicago.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
I’m no nuanced Negro, but…
13 Oct 2021
I’m no nuanced Negro, but… I’m no nuanced Negro—never have been—never will be. I’m a lower the forks, pick up the pallet, put it on the
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Build Back Better Legislation: New Keynesianism or Neoliberal Public Relations Stunt?
13 Oct 2021
Some provisions of Biden’s “Build Back Better” legislation benefit the masses of Black people, but this legislation is a bare minimum effort to blunt some of the sharpest contradictions of the
Miriam Miranda
Afro-Indigenous People in Honduras Are Being Forcibly Displaced. Washington Is Complicit.
13 Oct 2021
Many would-be migrants, like the Garifuna, would love nothing more than to stay in their homes. It’s Washington that’s making it difficult.