African America

Granma International Staff
Cuban-Trained Doctor Fights Pandemic in The Bronx
29 Apr 2020
In the South Bronx, Dr Melissa Barber battles COVID-19, putting into practice the lessons she learned in Cuba, at the Latin American School of Medicine.
Robert Greene II
Debating Black Freedom
29 Apr 2020
Time and again, Black radicals have pressed for an expanded scope of political and economic freedoms, for Americans at home and for people abroad.
Susie Day
Puerto Rico, Protest, Prison: Johanna Fernández and Jose Saldaña on The Young Lords
29 Apr 2020
“There’s something profoundly liberating for people who’ve been told all their lives that they ain’t shit to stand up.”
Jon Jeter
Michael Jordan's Sad Legacy as the Plutocrats' Champ, and the Anti-Ali
29 Apr 2020
Ali, the People’s Champ, hurtled into the breach to come to the aid of his community while Jordan did all he could to distance himself.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 27, 2020
27 Apr 2020
Group Demands Louisiana Prisons Be “Evacuated”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
New Mexico Exalts “Three Peoples” – and Leaves Blacks Out Entirely
27 Apr 2020
In a recent article, Dr Natasha Howard, a lecturer in Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico, cited the campus’s “Three Peoples” mural as exemplifying the state
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
The Black "Progress Narrative" is Self-Defeating
27 Apr 2020
“When we think we’ve made progress, we are blinded to the ways we have not,” and wind up affirming our slave-like relationship to power, said Anthony Farley, a Visiting Profes
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Group Demands Louisiana Prisons Be “Evacuated”
27 Apr 2020
“The coronavirus is a death sentence on Black people,” who make up two-thirds of Louisiana’s prisoners, said Belinda Parker Brown, head of Louisiana United International.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
24 Apr 2020
The coup in Bolivia and the Bernie Sanders campaign were in your thoughts this week.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Diseased System in Shut-Lockdown: Never a Better Time to Fight for Socialism
23 Apr 2020
The current health and economic crisis will dramatically accelerate the processes of corporate monopolization, finance capital dictatorship, and working class precarity and immiseration.