African America

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Corporate Media Largely Decide Which Black Lives Matter
04 May 2020
A study by sociology professor Alicia Simmons, of Colgate University, found that corporate media journalists sometimes adopt an adversarial relationship with local police, but
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Late-Stage Racial Capitalism Opened the Door to the Killer Virus
30 Apr 2020
The white settler state always inflicts excessive mortality on racially subject peoples, and capitalism inflicts death on large sections of its disproportionately non-white working class and poor.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Fighting COVID-19 with Mass Action and a People’s Strike
29 Apr 2020
The people’s mass fightback against the system that failed to protect them from the coronavirus and corporate predators begins May 1.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s Anti-China Campaign Strategy is Part of a Broader Imperialist War Against China
29 Apr 2020
Joe Biden and Donald Trump are taking aim at China to deflect attention away from the American nightmare.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
May 1st General Strike: Claiming People(s)-Centered Human Rights for the Working Class
29 Apr 2020
The failure of the capitalist state to provide the people with elementary protections of their fundamental human rights renders the capitalist state illegitimate.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
It’s capitalism, baby… / 1 %-Funded Rally Actors / Solidarity
29 Apr 2020
It’s capitalism, baby…
Mark P. Fancher
COVID-19 and the War Against Black Detroit
29 Apr 2020
Corporate America and white supremacists have waged merciless war against the Black megapolis that dared to nurture revolutionaries and great music.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
29 Apr 2020
This week readers were thinking about the myths of racial progress, finance capital and primaries, the pandemic in Haiti, and the possibilities of revolution.
Dean Spade and Roberto Sirvent, BAR Contributors
BAR Abolition & Mutual Aid Spotlight: Timmy Châu
29 Apr 2020
We need to understand mutual aid work as part and parcel to the work of all radical organizing.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Candice M. Jenkins’s “Black Bourgeois ”
29 Apr 2020
The zeitgeist of Black literature shifted in the past decade, from Black progress to precarity.