African America

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Lia T. Bascomb’s “In Plenty and in Time of Need”
11 Nov 2020
Politicians ignore at their peril the power of popular culture and its people-moving practitioners.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adrienne Brown’s “The Black Skyscraper”
11 Nov 2020
Facial masks and Black Lives Matter murals are part of the ever-changing panorama that shapes our perceptions of hierarchy, just as tall buildings do.
Meredeth Turshen and Annie Thébaud-Mony
The COVID-19 Pandemic Exposes Fatal Health Inequities
11 Nov 2020
Privatization of health care is why some of the wealthiest countries have proved unable to respond rapidly to the pandemic.
Angelique Richardson
“No Coloreds:” Racism in Britain has a Long if Contested History
11 Nov 2020
The Brits practiced a nonjudicial form of Jim Crow against non-white immigrants from their colonial empire.
Bashir Muhammad Akinyele
The Elusive Quest for Justice in Black America
11 Nov 2020
We as Black people must keep pushing, organizing, and demanding a Black agenda centered on reparations.
Morning Star Gali
Stolen Freedom: The Ongoing Incarceration of California’s Indigenous Peoples
11 Nov 2020
For 350 years, California has imprisoned and disenfranchised its Native peoples like few other places.
Popular Resistance
Now that Trump Has Been Defeated...
11 Nov 2020
We need to continue building power from the bottom up through organizing, political education and community assemblies.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Argentinians Demand Inclusion in National Story
10 Nov 2020
Argentina created a mythology of national whiteness that pretended the country’s Black population had long ago gone extinct, and ignored the presence of indigenous people.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
A “Communalist” Future?
10 Nov 2020
“Socialism is communalism in the modern form,” said activist and University of Illinois doctoral candidate Shay Akil McLean, citing Kwame Nkrumah.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Biden to Oversee a Kinder, Gentler Repression
10 Nov 2020
“The Democratic Party has used the language of law and order as much as the Republicans,” said Justin Lang, a doctoral candidate and activist at Brown University.