African America

Flint Taylor
Lawyers for the Left: A Review
04 Mar 2020
This lawyers’ story inspires us to march forward against the forces of repression, oppression, and white supremacy.”
Solomon Comissiong
Message to the US Corporate Media: Capitalism is Responsible for the Deaths of Millions of People
04 Mar 2020
Corporate media snake-oil salesmen/women are doing their best to convince the masses that socialism is the devil itself.
R. Divya Nair
The Gift of India and the Violence of the West
04 Mar 2020
Five centuries ago, Europeans set about subjugating the non-“white” peoples of the world, and they are still at it.
Margaret Eby
The Difference Between Yams and Sweet Potatoes Is Structural Racism
04 Mar 2020
The confusion goes all the way back to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. “Most American supermarkets are selling you sweet potatoes, not yams.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Scholar Praises Heroes and Indicts “Scoundrels” of McCarthy Era
02 Mar 2020
The peace activists that were persecuted in the McCarthy era were not fighting just for the absence of war, but were “anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, anti-capitalist and demanded an end to United
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Last Surviving Member of the Move 9 is Released
02 Mar 2020
Delbert Africa, imprisoned along with eight other members of the Move organization in 1978 in the death of a Philadelphia policeman, is finally free to “tell his story,” said Mumia Abu
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
“Respectable” Black Women Fought Mass Incarceration
02 Mar 2020
Back in the days when 90 percent of southern prison inmates were Black, socially conservative Black clubwomen fought for prison reform, believing that “putting Black women in jail was hurting the B
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
If the Left Doesn’t Critique Endless War, Who Will?
02 Mar 2020
“We must raise the issues of war and imperialism in electoral politics in this country,” even if the Democrats don’t, said BAR senior columnist Margaret Kimberley, speaking at
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black America, Endless War and the Evil Genius of Russiagate
27 Feb 2020
The Democrats -- who are now the most aggressive war party – have succeeded in linking Donald Trump to Russia, and then lumping all critics of U.S.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Bernie Sanders' Foreign Policy Trap
26 Feb 2020
It is time for leftists to stop giving Sanders a pass and make demands on him and all other candidates for office.