African America

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Is Genetic Testing a Tool for Reparations?
18 May 2020
The science of genetics “can be useful for showing continuity, that the people who were harmed are, indeed, ancestors of those who are living today,” said Dr.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Rural Blacks and Browns at High Risk
18 May 2020
“In the last decade more than 125 rural hospitals have closed,” said Dr Carrie Henning-Smith, of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and co-author of a st
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Pandemic Has Shaken Global Capitalism to Its Core
18 May 2020
Black America’s most prolific political author, Dr Gerald Horne, notes that the bubonic plague “set the stage for the erosion of feudalism in 14th century Europe,” l
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Leftists Jump the Corporate Democratic Ship, Leaving Sanders Behind
14 May 2020
History may record that the corporate duopoly dike was finally broken in the Time of Plague, with the defection of Bernie’s former sheep from the Democratic Party.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Joe Biden, Kim Jong-Un, and the Dialectics of White Supremacy
13 May 2020
White supremacy shapes every aspect of imperialism and must be understood from a dialectical perspective if socialism is to ever become a possibility in the United States.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Things Don’t Get No Better
13 May 2020
The current season of sickness – biological and political – is, indeed, strange, with no hint of a better day any time soon.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Archaic capitalism’s COVID cops?
13 May 2020
What if COVID-19 came and drove down crime by 40%? What if capitalism’s cops be- came useless
Jennifer S. Leath
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Sarah Haley’s "No Mercy Here"
13 May 2020
Georgia’s convict leasing system was created to devour Black people of both genders.
Dean Spade and Roberto Sirvent, BAR Contributors
BAR Abolition & Mutual Aid Spotlight: Alisa Bierria
13 May 2020
In light of the pandemic, we have seen an extraordinary emergence of mutual aid strategies around the world.
Tunde Osazua and Netfa Freeman
First Somali Congressperson Legitimizes AFRICOM and US Drone War
13 May 2020
Rep. Omar recently commended the US war machine for increasing the “transparency” and “accountability” of its bombing of her native country.