African America

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BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
13 Nov 2019
Black class relations explicated, Moynihan debunked, slave life explored, prison abolition made conceivable – all this is teachable.
James Campbell and Mark Solomon
Jack O’Dell – A Life in Struggle (August 11, 1923 – October 31, 2019)
13 Nov 2019
Odell’s effectiveness and fidelity to principle is affirmed by the ferocity of Hoover’s redbaiting smears.
Ethan Johnson
On Death and Dying as a Black Studies Professor at Portland State University
13 Nov 2019
In celebration of Black Study’s 50th year in existence at Portland State, we also get to watch its death.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Dems and Repubs are Moneypots, Not Real Political Parties
12 Nov 2019
If the Democrats were a real, mass based party, they would never consider Joe Biden as their nominee because he has no support among the people that energize parties: the youth.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
White Supremacy Goes Back to the Crusades
12 Nov 2019
The roots of western European anti-Blackness lie in the Middle Ages, in the Crusades to seize Arab lands, said Cord Whitaker, a professor at Wellesley College and author of “B
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Class Struggle and Revolution are Inseparable
12 Nov 2019
“If you don’t recognize class oppression, you’re siding with the oppressor,” said Jihad Abdulmumit, chairperson of the National Jericho Movement, speaking to a conference of t
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Ruling Class “Crisis of Legitimacy” is Behind “Bernie Blackout”
12 Nov 2019
The ruling class is attempting “to establish its legitimacy, once again, without the popular mandate of broad sections of the people,” said Duboisian scholar Dr Anthony Monteiro
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
By trying to Silence Sanders, the Corporate Media De-Legitimize Themselves
07 Nov 2019
Sanders has been made into a non-person, and his proposals routinely distorted, because the corporate media want Americans to meekly submit to the Race to the Bottom.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: America Needs Protest
06 Nov 2019
A thousand young people demonstrated in Brooklyn, jumping over turnstiles in solidarity with others arrested and brutalized by the cops.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The World is Rising Up Against Austerity and the Rule of the Rich, When Will We?
06 Nov 2019
Black political captivity in the Democratic Party has a lot to do with why there is no clear peace movement in the United States.