African America

Fair & Just Prosecution
Joint Statement From Elected Prosecutors on COVID-19 and Addressing the Rights and Needs of Those in Custody
25 Mar 2020
Overcrowded jail, prison and immigration detention facilities force people together in close quarters without access to proper hygiene or medical care.
Human Outbreak Response
Humanity Not Cages: Demanding a Just and Humane Response to Outbreak
25 Mar 2020
With 2.3 million people in the United States in prison or jail on any given day, an outbreak in these facilities poses a threat to the entire country.
Wilmer J. Leon III
The Dangers of Binary Politics for the African American Community
25 Mar 2020
We have traded our interests in for “electability” and “anybody but Trump.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 23, 2020
24 Mar 2020
Black Trillion Dollar “Buying Power” is a Capitalist Hoax
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Too Fast to Be a Woman
24 Mar 2020
When South African track star Caster Semenya won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games, critics claimed “she was cheating and had no right to compete with other women” because she performed more
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
James Baldwin’s African Awakening
24 Mar 2020
Although famed writers James Baldwin never wrote a book entirely about Africa in his long career, his later works show him awakening to “the potential of Black internationalism” with the decoloniza
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Trillion Dollar “Buying Power” is a Capitalist Hoax
24 Mar 2020
For decades, politicians and business people have claimed that, if only African Americans used their alleged trillion dollar consumer purchasing power wisely, Blacks would make great economic and p
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Late-Stage Imperial Omni-Crisis: Death by Virus and Internal Contradictions
19 Mar 2020
The epidemic reveals the stark truth, that the US dismantled and privatized its public health system, to fatten the pockets of the oligarchy and render working people more helpless and dependent.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Sanders Gets Swallowed by the DNC Machine: It’s Time to #DemExit
18 Mar 2020
Only the demise of the Democratic Party can free up the potential of the people to resolve the many problems created by capitalism and imperialism.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
“Virus or No Virus, We Can't Lose Our Voice”: Cheri Honkala on Frontline Communities
18 Mar 2020
Coronavirus is just an extension of the war that we've been forced to fight under capitalism.