African America

Minkah Makalami
Cedric Robinson and the Origins of Race
24 Feb 2021
To dismiss the logic of Robinson’s “racial capitalism,” one must ignore the only history of capitalism we have.
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
24 Feb 2021
This week you discussed the struggle against the dollar and neocolonialism.
Dr. Gerald Horne
BAR Book Forum: Gerald Horne’s The Dawning of the Apocalypse
24 Feb 2021
Britain is, indeed, the “mother country” of US white supremacy, having bythe 13th century become “The First Racial State in the West.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adam Kotsko’s “Neoliberalism’s Demons”
24 Feb 2021
Nationalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression and exclusion are an integral part of the neoliberal order.
Paul Ringel
Why a Shootout Between Black Panthers and Law Enforcement 50 Years Ago Matters Today
24 Feb 2021
The 1971 raid marks a nationwide militarization of police relations with Black protest groups and Africa Americans as a group.
Pam Africa
Mumia Abu Jamal Newspaper Admonishes DA to Stop Defending the Indefensible
24 Feb 2021
“If DA Krasner wants to embrace anti-racist principles…then he needs to take an honest look at the facts of Mumia’s case.”
Dante James
Judas and the Black Messiah, A Missed Opportunity
24 Feb 2021
The film framed Hampton as a victim instead of a pro-active freedom fighter and revolutionary.
Geoffrey Jacques
A New Civil Rights Movement, a New Journal
24 Feb 2021
By the end of its run, Freedomways had become something close to a journal of record of the mid-to-late 20th Century African American freedom movement.
David Marcus Rutherford
Sumo Wrestlers & Supermodels: Reimagining the Education of Black Children
24 Feb 2021
How do we define success for Black students and the adults that they become?
Sarah Anderson, Scott Klinger, Brian Wakamo
Black Families Have a Major Stake in the Future of the Postal Service
24 Feb 2021
If there is any source of mass employment that has provided Black workers with decent wages and upward mobility, it is the US Postal Service, the target of corporatist assault.