African America

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adia Harvey Wingfield’s “Flatlining”
15 Apr 2020
How do black workers fare when organizations say they want to attract more minority employees even as they have largely shifted resources away from labor?
Dean Spade and Roberto Sirvent, BAR Contributors
BAR Abolition and Mutual Aid Spotlight: Ejeris Dixon
15 Apr 2020
Mutual aid efforts are proliferating in this time of epidemic, organizing communities towards self-determination by creating mechanisms that oppose the state violence.
Belen Fernandez
Cuba Under Media Attack for Sending Doctors, Not Bombs, to Help Covid-19
15 Apr 2020
Media outlets have exploited the current pandemic to disseminate rank anti-Cuban propaganda.
Quetzal Cáceres
The Cognitive Dissonance of “Democratic Socialists”— Cults Die a Slow Death
15 Apr 2020
The blame-anyone-other-than-Sanders apologists exposed themselves as devotees to a cult of personality devoid of any real political strategy.
Judy Lubin
Systemic Racism Is Making Coronavirus Worse in Black America
15 Apr 2020
COVID-19 is a perfect storm of systemic inequities operating together to worsen existing vulnerabilities.
Movement for Black Lives
Movement for Black Lives National Demands for Covid-19
15 Apr 2020
Read and save this comprehensive document from M4BL. A vision for Black lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom and Justice
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 13, 2020
13 Apr 2020
US Could Safely Release Three Out of Four Prisoners
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Whites See Black Kids as “Disturbing the Peace”
13 Apr 2020
Sky-high rates of suspension of Black students are caused by a pervasive “system of anti-Blackness” rooted in slavery and Jim Crow, said Dr.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
San Francisco Sends 40 Percent of Jail Inmates Home
13 Apr 2020
Chesa Boudin, the leftish district attorney for San Francisco, claims to have reduced the jail population by nearly 40 percent since the onslaught of the epidemic.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
US Could Safely Release Three Out of Four Prisoners
13 Apr 2020
Although Illinois has responded to the Covid-19 epidemic by releasing about 500 state prison inmates, “the scope of the releases is way too small and way too slow, said Alan Mills