African America

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The NBA’s Black Power
02 Sep 2020
Black NBA players, writes Ann Garrison, are just beginning to understand the power of the attention and admiration they command.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Deja vu—Step 1 and Step 2?
02 Sep 2020
Is this Deja Vu— Step1 and Step 2? The long, long lines breaking with 12 years of Reaganite reaction in ’92 Slick Willy’s $campaign—his sax-
P. Khalil Saucier
“The Balls in (Y)our Court:” Naomi Osaka and (Continued) Black Genocide
02 Sep 2020
Osaka’s statement must be seen as part of a radical tradition too often redacted from sports history.
Anthony Monteiro
The Invention of Ibram X Kendi and the Ideological Crises of Our Time
02 Sep 2020
Rich white capitalists may be donating millions to Black Lives Matter, but they’re also funding and praising nonsense like Kendi’s babblings on race and capitalism.
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
02 Sep 2020
This week the Democratic Party presidential ticket was on your minds.
Asha Noor
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
02 Sep 2020
An abolitionist frame of thought is a rebirth, a spiritual process, a painful undertaking, and an ancestral conjuring for Black and brown people.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Vicky Osterweil’s “In Defense of Looting”
02 Sep 2020
Looting and rioting appear as immediately effective tactics in the struggle against whiteness, property and the police.
Jake Johnson
US Facilitates Arms for Killer Cops and Criminals in Haiti
02 Sep 2020
Weapons are flowing to pro-regime gangsters suspected of assassinating opponents of the US-backed regime.
Mark P. Fancher
Police Kill. We March. Why?
02 Sep 2020
We must instead think creatively about how to either take total community control of law enforcement as an institution or to bring about an independent, nation-building, self-governing reality.
Hana Kiros
A Tale of Two Teens: When White Killers Are Treated Better Than Black Victims
02 Sep 2020
It’s Cowboys and Indians updated: a wicked game where Black people are seen as predators but almost always end up prey.