African America

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Yelena Bailey’s “How the Streets Were Made”
16 Dec 2020
The streets permeate dominant understandings of Blackness, and the life-and-death consequences of these perceptions are at the heart of this book.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Grace A. Musila’s Book, “Wangari Maathai's Registers of Freedom”
16 Dec 2020
Maathai’s approach to environmental conservation centers poor rural communities, especially women, and their need for fuel, fodder and income
Selamawit D. Terrefe
On Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III
16 Dec 2020
Afro-pessimism theorizes slavery as a social relation which distinguishes Blackness as a paradigmatic position antithetical to humans.
Too Black
The Myth of the Perfect Victim
16 Dec 2020
The denial of Black humanity is essential to the order of racial capitalism, and dictates that Blacks deserve whatever treatment they get.
Rajko Koundzic
Biden’s Victory Was Hardly a Win for “Democracy.” It Was Another Win for the 1%.
16 Dec 2020
An authentic and organized mass movement is the only way to combat money-power and make progressive policies possible.
Chris Wright
Could Unions Have Liberated Dixie from Racist Rule?
16 Dec 2020
The right-wing leadership of the CIO refused to seriously confront white supremacy in the South. “The demand to abolish the police needs to be sharpened.”
Kim Ives
Top Haiti Cop Specializes in Counter-Insurgency Intelligence Gathering and Repression
16 Dec 2020
Léon Charles, Haiti’s new national police chief, is a mass killer dedicated to suppressing the nation’s poor majority.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 14, 2020
15 Dec 2020
Boxing is a Window on US Race and Class Pathologies
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Mumia: Fear of Socialism
15 Dec 2020
“Politicians have pulled out the fear card – socialism – to ensure that voters stay in their place,” said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Democrats Deploy “Diversity” to Mask Renewed War and Austerity
15 Dec 2020
The “new regime is just a return to the old regime of endless austerity and war,” said Duboisian scholar Dr Anthony Monteiro, an organizer with the Philadelphia Saturday Free Schoo