African America

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: L.H. Stallings’ “Funk the Erotic”
20 Jan 2021
We need a different relationship to and with time and temporality to imagine new worlds and to begin bringing those new worlds into being.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: John Murillo III’s “Impossible Stories”
20 Jan 2021
The author dissects Black time and space in order to better understand the nature and mechanics of Black life and death lived in the antiblack world.
Greg Felton
Defund the Police is Not Abolition
20 Jan 2021
In practice, defunding police leads to endless dickering with local politicians and allows reformists to present themselves as abolitionists.
Too Black
The Crisis of White Squatters Rights
20 Jan 2021
The white ruling class is evicting the squatter-in-chief (Trump) for violating the class collaborative agreement.
Priyam Madhukar
Police Shouldn’t Tag Students as Potential Criminals
20 Jan 2021
When cops create lists of kids “at risk” of falling into crime, it becomes a self-fulfilling indictment.
Eleanor J. Bader
Activists Are Mobilizing to Create an Eviction-Free United States
20 Jan 2021
Rent strikers are doing all they can to stop the violence of evictions and promote a vision of collective and community ownership of housing for everyone.
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Venezuela Sends Oxygen Tanks to Brazilian Amazon State
20 Jan 2021
Despite being deeply-sanctioned by the US, Venezuela is sharing medical resources with its neighbor. “Latin American solidarity above all!”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 18, 2021
19 Jan 2021
US Imperialism Was in Disarray in 2020
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Lumumba Assassination Changed Black American Politics
19 Jan 2021
A panel of academics and activists marked the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the Congo’s first elected prime minister, by agents of the US and Belgium.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
US Genocide Against Blacks, Now and in 1951
19 Jan 2021
The Black leftists that presented a petition to the United Nations, 70 years ago, charging the US with genocide against Black Americans, understood that “there is a linked fate between what’s happe