African America

Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
20 Mar 2019
Double standards in the criminal justice system, the relationship between feminism and sex work as well as between reparations and immigrants were on readers’ minds this week. The top re
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tamura Lomax’s “Jezebel Unhinged”
20 Mar 2019
The jezebel discourse is reproduced in and circulated between the Black Church and black popular culture, making each a site of antiblack and sexist stereotypic cultivation and pornotropic gazing.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Gary Dorrien’s“The New Abolition”
20 Mar 2019
The founder of Black social gospel fought hard for their right to combine racial justice politics and progressive theology in black church contexts.
Thurka Sangaramoorthy
The US Is Failing Black Women With HIV
20 Mar 2019
Many believe the HIV epidemic in the US is nearing an end, but Blacks represent 43 percent of all persons with newly diagnosed HIV.
J.M. Kirby
Facing Wrongful Detention and Threats, Afro-Colombian Women Call for Justice
20 Mar 2019
In Colombia, “all human rights defenders are considered criminals,” especially those who are Black or indigenous.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of March 18, 2018
19 Mar 2019
US Mercenaries Arrested in Haiti; Chris Hedges: Israeli Apartheid Utterly Indefensible; Laura Henley: Class distinctions among US blacks have always been with us; Vilissa Thompson on the struggles
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Particularities of Black Disability
18 Mar 2019
Vilissa Thompson fights to make sure that Black disabled people’s lives matter, too. A social worker and disabilities activist, Thompson is the creator of “Ramp You
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A Failed Black Upper Class Project to “Reform” Poor Black Girls
18 Mar 2019
Between 1919 and 1939, the National Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs attempted to run a school for “wayward” Black girls called the Efland Home, in North Carolina.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Indefensible Israeli Apartheid State
18 Mar 2019
“We’re seeing a crumbling of Israel’s ability to defend and promote the apartheid state,” said political analyst Chris Hedges. Rep.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
ADOS Shrinks Reparationist Politics to Fit the Cramped Horizon of Tribalism
15 Mar 2019
“ADOS followers throw away the internationalism of their forbears, embracing instead a sometimes polite, but always frank hostility toward immigrants of all nations on the grounds that they