African America

Jamiles Lartey
New York Tried to Get Rid of Bail. Then the Backlash Came
13 May 2020
The no-bail movement was on a roll from Vermont and New Jersey to Alaska and Georgia – and then the lock ‘em up mob struck back.
William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen
Coronavirus is Making the Case for Black Reparations Clearer Than Ever
13 May 2020
The COVID-19 crisis only heightens the urgency of black reparations, which is now more essential than ever.
Patrick D. Anderson
On George Jackson and Julian Assange
13 May 2020
Both see the United States as the Empire, and they agree that it must be opposed.
Stansfield Smith
Chicago Mayor Lightfoot’s Coronavirus Threats and Government Incapacity to Handle a Pandemic
13 May 2020
The city’s Black mayor threatened Black house partyers with arrest, but ignored 500 un-masked white people protesting the Covid-19 lock-down.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 11, 2020
11 May 2020
Biden’s “Lift Every Voice” Proposal Appeals to Black Misleaders
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
US Systemic Collapse is “Total”
11 May 2020
The current meltdown is “a total crisis of the system” in all its economic, social and political aspects, said Duboisian scholar Dr Anthony Monteiro.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Biden’s “Lift Every Voice” Proposal Appeals to Black Misleaders
11 May 2020
Black Alliance for Peace national organizer Ajamu Baraka said de facto Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s “Lift Every Voice” plan for Black America “assumes th
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Whose Crisis?: When the People Lose, the Corporate Parties and the Rich Win
07 May 2020
The Democratic Party is a servant of corporate capital and cannot possibly be converted to a people’s party. The rise and demise of Bernie Sanders proves the point.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
In the People’s War against COVID-19, Socialism Offers Victory while Capitalism Spells Defeat
06 May 2020
Socialist societies are capable of doing much more to contain diseases like Covid-19, such as rapid testing, neighborhood food deliveries, and the use of AI technology to trace contacts and symptom
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Mayday 2020
06 May 2020
(For Ferguson, Baltimore, Million Workers March, Arab Spring, Standing Rock, Occupy, Jackson Rising, Fight for Fifteen, Extinction Rebellion, #Me Too…)