In the current political climate, Black and progressive activists should focus on locally-based efforts, said author and veteran organizer Kevin Alexander Gray. āWe donāt have anybody on the national scene thatās saying anything coherent,ā said Gray, speaking from his hometown of Columbia, South Carolina. āTheyāre saying those sound bites to stay on TV, and smiling and skinninā and grinninā,ā but ātheyāre disconnected from the struggle, disconnected from their history. People see them as frauds, and thatās a good thing, as we organize at the local level.ā
Arrests of members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front are the latest in a decades-long effort to criminalize the left and to make examples of anyone who might fit the profile of being a "ā¦
An end-of-the-year radical Black reading list from the editors of The Black Agenda Review.
"Army of Artists (For My Friend Horace Silver)" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer questions about their book. This weekās featured author is Ben Passmore. Passmore is the author of the ongoing comic book series Daygloayhole, asā¦
āAnti-Communism Weekā is a legal blueprint for crushing dissent. By labeling social justice activism as terrorism and empowering a new national task force, the state is preparing for the most intenseā¦
