"As the state has been hollowed out as a result of neoliberalization - who is going to suffer the most? Blacks who work for the postal service, Blacks who had public sector jobs and HAVE seen their pensions raided along with everybody else, Blacks who are public school teachers... It's easy to see how the condition of Black people is connected to the resurgent power of the capitalist class. It's not separate, it's deeply connected.
Political scientist Cedric Johnson examines the realities of class in Black political life - from the limits of electoralism and a solely race-driven analysis in challenging the slow decline of a people (and nation) under de-industrialization and neoliberal austerity, to the power of a Marxist, materialist lens in understanding the power dynamics in capitalist society.
Cedric wrote the article Coming to Terms with Actually-Existing Black Life for New Politics, reposted as What Black Life Actually Looks Like for Jacobin.
Barack Obama was not a friend to Black people. He bailed out the banks, deported millions, and bombed Muslim countries, and now his $850 million monument in Chicago is pushing Black families out of…
“Professional soccer does everything to [destroy] that energy of happiness, but it survives in spite of all the spites.”
The United States should never host the World Cup because it is a country built on racism, repression, and endless war. FIFA and its leader have ignored all of this just to please Donald Trump, so…
"Gambling Man" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
The Sahel is facing one of its worst security crises in years after a massive terrorist attack in Mali killed the country's defense minister. While the people of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger are…
