African America

Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Ride: How Not to Celebrate Juneteenth
16 Jun 2021
Juneteenth has become the latest iteration of liberal capture of Black politics, opportunistic virtue signaling, and the intentional misrepresentation of America’s history.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The Town Crier’s List of Who’s Who in the capitalist state machine
16 Jun 2021
“Ain’t no power like the power of the people— ‘cause the power of the people don’t stop!” bouncing off summer skyscrapers; ricocheting off resistance
Netfa Freeman
Community Control of Public Safety: Building a Transitional Program for Power
16 Jun 2021
Why is more effort is put into trying to discredit CCOP, while the ruling class is pulling all stops to hoodwink the public with actual reformism, like the George Floyd Act.
Ahjamu Umi
Lessons from Eldridge Cleaver and the Black Panther Party
16 Jun 2021
Just like we glorified the black leather jackets, black berets, and guns in the 60s, we still romanticize African people with guns and mouths that fire more inaccurately than the guns they carry.
Denis Chabrol
Walter Rodney’s Death Records to be Amended and Children’s Books Placed in Schools
16 Jun 2021
The martyred revolutionary’s assassination has finally been acknowledged by the Guyana state, and his works will become part of the educational curriculum.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jerrilyn McGregory’s “One Grand Noise”
16 Jun 2021
To break cyclical, systemic oppression requires a functionality that rejects reified notions of governance, global capitalism, and accommodation.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Cisco Bradley’s “Universal Tonality”
16 Jun 2021
Jazzman William Parker’s work is a bold art of resistance to capitalism, colonialism, racism, and the runaway train that is our present-day America.
Aaron Kamugisha
The Responsibilities of Caribbean Intellectuals
16 Jun 2021
The tradition of Caribbean intelligentsia insists on a grounding with the massive against the elites.
David Swanson
Abolishing Police and Abolishing Militaries
16 Jun 2021
Prison and war abolition are up against the exact same profiteers, politicians, and pundits, as well as many of the same people “serving” as soldiers, police, and guards.
Carol Anderson
America’s Gun Obsession is Rooted in Slavery
16 Jun 2021
The sheer brutality of human bondage created an overwhelming fear among whites of the enslaved’s capacity and desire for retribution.