African America

Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The State and White supremacy: The Inextricable Link
08 Jul 2020
The demand for “justice” by the public had the ironic result of re-legitimizing the state as an institution that could in fact render justice – but only an empowered people can establish a just ord
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Oooh, what a lil’ Movement can do…
08 Jul 2020
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Gwendolyn Wallace
To Abolish the Medical industrial Complex
08 Jul 2020
Like prisons, healthcare systems are part of the way that empire reproduces itself.
Shaka Shakur
#WE TOO
08 Jul 2020
If there can be no peace without justice, then there can never be peace while the US Prison Gulag exists. “Prison Lives Matter as Black Lives Matter!!!”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
08 Jul 2020
This week you discussed Thanksgiving, the George Floyd protests, and allegations about Russian involvement in Afghanistan.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Christel Temple’s “Black Cultural Mythology”
08 Jul 2020
Black Cultural Mythology imagines a world where Africana cultural memory is an intellectual field with its own agency that does not rely on other cultures’ models to sustain its
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Andrew J. Douglas’s “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Critique of the Competitive Society”
08 Jul 2020
Du Bois appears to have anticipated the coming of the neoliberal dystopia.
Marlene Daut
When France Extorted Haiti – the Greatest Heist in History
08 Jul 2020
The indemnity Haiti paid to France is the first and only time a formerly enslaved people were forced to compensate those who had once enslaved them.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
The Weaponization of Culture
08 Jul 2020
While statues glorifying white supremacy are being torn down across the globe, a Maryland county is busy desecrating African graves and building a new edifice to white supremacy.
Gustavus Griffin
What’s in a Name Change?: A New Black/Native American Solidarity
08 Jul 2020
Native American and African/Black people in America have both been victims of Settler Colonialism.