African America

Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
COVID-19 Exposes Economic Misery as U.S. Capitalism’s “New Normal”
28 Oct 2020
Neoliberal capitalism is incapable of containing the pandemic or facilitating an economic recovery for the masses.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Bankrolling blu klux klans?
28 Oct 2020
Rhythms of red, white, blue ‘party’ lights flashing beneath screaming sirens; The rush of warm crimson drawing 2, 4, 6, 8, 10—and then some…
Ameer Hasan Loggins
We’re All Living in a Future Created by Slavery
28 Oct 2020
The carceral class is made up of persons of African descent who are systematically stigmatized as unfit for freedom and deserving of the dehumanization that comes with being incarcerated.
Ashton Rome
What the Political Realignment Suggest about the Prospects for Fascism
28 Oct 2020
The Democratic Party has seemingly accomplished the impossible – a revival of centrism in the midst of its collapse.
Erica Caines
Black Bolivia and the Socialist Electoral Triumph
28 Oct 2020
Indigenous and Afro-Bolivians spent every day resisting the coup to complete the socialist aspirations of their party.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
28 Oct 2020
This week you discussed the role of racism in foreign policy, Black America and the duopoly, and global elites’ plans for exploiting the Covid crisis.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Danielle Morgan’s “Laughing to Keep From Dying”
28 Oct 2020
There is nothing strange about Black folks laughing at the sheer immensity of ways we can die.
Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent
Health Justice and Black Liberation: Antoine Johnson
28 Oct 2020
We have to consume things with Black liberation and environmental justice in mind.
Gregory N. Heires
Paul Robeson’s American Ballad
28 Oct 2020
Brilliant and amazingly multitalented, Robeson was once among the most popular men in the U.S;, but became a non-person under relentless red-baiting.
Kameron Hurt
Free Ruchell “Cinque” Magee!
28 Oct 2020
Ruchell Magee is the longest-held political prisoner in the United States and the world.