Major League Baseball’s recent moves to recognize the contributions of the Negro league teams they once excluded amount to only “the beginning stages of any kind of restitutive or reparative justice and wouldn’t even come close to restoring” the Black players and teams to their proper place in history, said Josh Myers, professor of Afro American Studies at Howard University. “Baseball was not just a pastime for Black people,” said Myers. “It was on the baseball diamond where community was forged, where people came together” during American apartheid.
Kamau Franklin, founder of Community Movement Builders, speaks with BAR Book Forum Editor Roberto Sirvent about the limitations of electoral politics for the left.
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Andrea A. Davis. Davis is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at…
Cuba's president Miguel Díaz-Canel continues his country's struggle against U.S. attempts at domination. The Cuban people continue to make strides, in spite of the 60-year long blockade intended…
The President of the Socialist Party of Zambia explains that imperialism is the root of the Ukraine anf other crises and that socialism is the solution.
