African America

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
“Black August” Honors Captives of Armed Struggle
10 Aug 2020
“Black August started in San Quentin to highlight the armed struggle,” said Jihad Abdulmumit, chairperson of the Jericho Movement, which advocates for political prisoners
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Political Prisoners: “Say Their Names”
06 Aug 2020
Unless folks are under the delusion that victory over the “fascists” is imminent, the condition of political prisoners should be a deeply personal, as well as political, concern to all activists.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: How Trump Can Steal the 2020 Election
05 Aug 2020
The election was stolen from Clinton four years ago and the even weaker 2020 candidate can expect the same fate.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
American Left Silence on China Helps Lay Foundation for the U.S.’ New Cold War
05 Aug 2020
When it comes to China, Democracy Now, Jacobin, The Nation and others on the imperial-minded US ‘left” are allies of white supremacy.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
“We Need a National Industrial Commission, a Permanent One”
05 Aug 2020
Like the first Covd-19 relief package, the pending bill will have been written by “sleep-deprived staff and inattentive lawmakers who are making this all up on the fly.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Testi-lyin’ low Barr
05 Aug 2020
a man ‘made’ $13 billion in a day—while Stomachs of millions of men, women and children are symphony orchestras tuning to “Last Days of Pompeo…”
Earl Hazell
Essays on The Cult of White Feminism: The “Cos”-play of Elizabeth Warren
05 Aug 2020
A Black artist looks at the role of White Feminism in neutralizing the Progressive and Socialist Left in America, and its consequences.
Netfa Freeman
AFRICOM Crying Russia in Libya: A Pot and Kettle Syndrome
05 Aug 2020
The US waged unprovoked war against Libya and has militarily occupied Africa, but is still singing its old song that Russia is the aggressor on the continent.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
05 Aug 2020
“Freedom Rider: Let the Movement Be Radical” by Margaret Ki
Tiana Reid
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
05 Aug 2020
Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism brought me to Marxism and not the other way around.