African America

Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor
COVID-19: The Capitalist Emperor Has no Clothes
01 Apr 2020
The systemic failure of the capitalist order triggered by the coronavirus has reinforced the growing awareness that extreme wealth inequality is a fundamental characteristic of the system.
John G. Russell
Racial Profiling Disorder: the All-American Pandemic
01 Apr 2020
RAPROD carriers are convinced that blacks disproportionately carry guns and other contraband.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
01 Apr 2020
This week readers discussed the coronavirus’s relationship to NATO, sanctions, and the duopoly.
Dean Spade and Roberto Sirvent, BAR Contributors
BAR Abolition & Mutual Aid Spotlight: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
01 Apr 2020
The system is a disaster and the victims can best determine their own needs -- only the people save the people.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Brenna Greer’s “Represented”
01 Apr 2020
This book demonstrates the challenges of pursuing rights or recognition through capitalism and the market.
Jojo Goldman
"I'm Detained at Rikers Island and I'm Sick With Coronavirus"
01 Apr 2020
“The corrections officers think it’s a joke, and I be telling them, ‘This is serious, man.’”
Ed Morales
The Roots of Organizing: The Young Lords’ Revolution
01 Apr 2020
Historian Johanna Fernández makes the case for the Young Lords as profound thinkers as well as highly capable street activists.
Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson
On Being Black, Southern And Rural In The Time Of COVID-19
01 Apr 2020
Elders and already sick folks are at risk down South, the Blackest region of the nation with the worst health care.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for week of March 30, 2020
30 Mar 2020
COVID-19 May Trigger a “Crisis of Legitimacy”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Mumia: Things Fall Apart
30 Mar 2020
Citing the novel by Chinua Achebe, political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal notes: “We see outside our doors, our windows, a world we did not know, that now exists.