African America

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
“Progressive” Dems Ought to Divorce the Duopoly, Not Badger Greens
30 Jan 2020
The signers reveal themselves to be as fearful for the fate of the duopoly as the corporate shills they claim to oppose.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Negroes for Bloomberg
29 Jan 2020
Chicago’s Bobby Rush and San Francisco’s London Breed have sold themselves to super-plutocrat Michael Bloomberg, the worst stop-and-frisker in history.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Remember the Influence of Socialism on Martin Luther King Jr’s Legacy.
29 Jan 2020
King believed humanity could achieve a “higher synthesis” that rose above the social relations of capitalism and communism.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
They came 4 Moms 4 Housing
29 Jan 2020
Storming “ThTown’s” morning dew like badged vermin Creeping from bent mist morning light, just before five Barking cold commands in Pig Latin—or German?
Alice Speri
Cops and Spies Chase Blacks and Leftists While Violent Whites Grow Bolder
29 Jan 2020
The cops can’t find white terrorists in plain sight, but they have turned technology to the task of criminalizing Black and Left dissent.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
29 Jan 2020
This week readers discuss Democratic Party racism and the abuse of Martin Luther King’s legacy. We share your letters for “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Fikile Nxumalo’s “Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education”
29 Jan 2020
The author rejects ways of teaching that distort Black young people’s relationships with the natural world.
Randal Maurice Jelks
Black Abolitionists Believed in Taking Up Arms
29 Jan 2020
Long before the Civil War, Black abolitionists shared the consensus that violence would be necessary to end slavery.
Matthew Miles Goodrich
The Forgotten Socialist History of Martin Luther King Jr.
29 Jan 2020
MLK was dreaming of a socialist future long before the tumultuous decade of the Sixties.
Earl Hazell
Blues for Jimmy: In Celebration of the Life of Jimmy Heath
29 Jan 2020
The author studied jazz composition and arranging under “a funny, smart-aleck, short, kind, genius composer and tenor sax player” – a musical giant.