by BAR editor and Columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Kevin Berends Barack Obama journeyed to Selma, Alabama, one of the poorest places in a very poor state, to urge Black people to reflect on…

4by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Why, dey otta hab logos on dey suits Tellin’ de wurl how deys in cahoots— Maybe den dem lil’ Negroz unnerstan

by Paul Street At the heart of American history lies an essential truth: the U.S. became an economic superpower based on the super-exploitation of Black slaves, to whom it owes reparations. In his…

by Anthony Monteiro As an essayist, James Baldwin had no peer. He was a revolutionary of the highest order, refusing “to think from within the language of the positionality or intellectual geography…

by Danny Haiphong Socialism was knocked down, but not out, when the Soviet Union collapsed. That did not, however, change the fact that capitalism is in its late stages. “The choice for any movement…