African America

Jahan Choudhry Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
19 Aug 2020
This week protests in Portland and Racial Capitalism were on your minds.
Semassa Boko
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
19 Aug 2020
Our theorizing must take on the dynamic, fugitive, and excessive aesthetics of black practice and performance.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Aliyah Khan’s “Far from Mecca”
19 Aug 2020
Islam should be understood as a religion of enslaved African Muslims and contemporary Black Muslims in the Americas—not simply as a religion of 20th and 21st century Arab, African, and As
Russell Rickford
Beyoncé's "Black is King" and the Pitfalls of African Consciousness
19 Aug 2020
With Black is King, Beyoncé and Disney have combined to sell audiences a lavishly fabricated Africa—one that is entirely devoid of class conflict.
P. Khalil Saucier
What I Fear About University Actions in the Context of Black Lives Matter
19 Aug 2020
White folks at the university decided to set things right on race – without consulting Africana Studies.
Eric Umansky and Mollie Simon
The NYPD Is Withholding Evidence From Investigations Into Police Abuse
19 Aug 2020
The NYPD has regularly failed to turn over key records and videos to police abuse investigators at New York’s Civilian Complaint Review Board. “
Ahjamu Umi
Kamala Harris: Class Struggle and the Illusion of Identity in Capitalism
19 Aug 2020
Some Africans in America identify with people like Harris because THEY see their class interests, as she does, as being intertwined with the interests of the American capitalist system.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 17, 2020
18 Aug 2020
You Can’t Understand Capitalism Without Race
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Mumia: The Ravages of Capitalism-Fueled Contagion
18 Aug 2020
Social discontent rises with the level of fatalities and government incompetence during the current epidemic, said the nation’s best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
US Lies About Political Prisoners – and Almost Everything Else
18 Aug 2020
The official US position, that this country holds no political prisoners, is part of “the lie and the founding mythology of US ‘democracy,’” said Nyle Fort, a Princeton Univer