African America

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Douglas Flowe’s “Uncontrollable Blackness”
10 Jun 2020
Black men are besieged by an American crucible uniquely designed for them in the early twentieth century.
Earl Hazell
White Images, Black Reality: How to Talk to the Accidental Apologists for Monsters
10 Jun 2020
The author offers some thoughts on how to deal with white people that seek to dominate Black political discussion on social media.
Mark P. Fancher
Global Africa Must Defeat Global Imperialist Policing
10 Jun 2020
Africans have flooded into the streets of Britain, Germany, Brazil, France and many other countries, not only in solidarity, but also as part of their own resistance.
Ethan Johnson
Incandescent Whiteness: Dispatch from Portland, Oregon
10 Jun 2020
We are murdered, but there is no recourse because there is no crime. No death occurred because we are not human.
K. Scott
Ooh La La: Atlanta’s Mayor Keisha and Civil Rights Myths in the Black “Mecca”
10 Jun 2020
Mayor Lance Bottoms brought in troops to occupy her city while claiming that protesters dishonored the memory of MLK.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 8, 2020
08 Jun 2020
The “Carceral State” is the Enemy
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Community Control of Police Vs Impunity
08 Jun 2020
“Until our Black and brown communities get control of the police, they are going to continue to murder us with impunity,” said Frank Chapman, chair of the National Alliance Ag
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Blacks Will No Longer Be “Chumps” for the Democrats
08 Jun 2020
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms showed her true colors when she berated protesters, said Trinity College sociologist Dr Johnny Williams.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
The “Carceral State” is the Enemy
08 Jun 2020
The current wave of protest is correctly “targeting the commodification of Blackness by the state,” said Dr Brittany Friedman, a Rutgers University sociology professor at the
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Movement Gets BIG – and Its Enemies Reveal Themselves
04 Jun 2020
The decrepit racial capitalist order appears to be unraveling under the weight of coronavirus, economic depression, and a quantitative leap in people’s willingness to confront power through the pol