African America

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DOCUMENT: The Rise of Black Power in the West Indies: Walter Rodney, 1969
23 Jul 2021
Rodney succinctly demonstrates how capitalism and colonialism, and nationalism and imperialism, function to create a rigid hierarchy by which color is fused with class to keep the Black majorities
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Joe Biden is Wrong, Capitalism IS Exploitation
23 Jul 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced numerous examples of “disaster capitalism, and spectacular profits for billionaires.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Our ‘democracy’
23 Jul 2021
Shangri-La—untaxed, socially-distanced champagne- caviar, Cayman Island, yacht crowds who Pay nothing for water washing their waste to sewage
Patrick D. Anderson
The Conspicuous Absence of Derrick Bell—Rethinking the CRT Debate, Part 1
23 Jul 2021
Bell levels a class critique against the Black bourgeoisie, whom he sees as having led Black political protest down the wrong path time and time again.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Matthieu Chapman’s Book, “Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English Drama”
22 Jul 2021
This book analyzes Early Modern English Drama as a form of cultural production in which the paradigm of Early Modern England was shifting to account for encounters with black Africans.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Julia Rose Kraut’s “Threat of Dissent”
22 Jul 2021
Ideological exclusion and deportation from the United States, and how they has been consistently used as tools of political repression.
Sarah Ruiz-Grossman
People Working A Minimum Wage Job Can’t Afford Rent Anywhere In The U.S.
22 Jul 2021
Over 40% of Black and Latinx households pay more than 30% of their income on rent, compared with 25% of white households.
Blsck Agenda Radio with Maergaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 19, 2021
21 Jul 2021
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 19, 2021 Class Struggle Shapes Haiti Political Conflict
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
US Destabilizes Planet, Blames China and Cuba
21 Jul 2021
Despite portraying Donald Trump as representing everything they oppose, when Democratic President Joe Biden took over the White House he left Trump’s measures against Cuba and China intact, virtual
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Class Struggle Shapes Haiti Political Conflict
21 Jul 2021
Class conflicts between Africa-born and Haiti-born Blacks and mulattos shaped Haitian political battle lines before and after the 1804 revolution and to this day, said Haitian American author and a