African America

Ann Garrison , BAR contributor , #LandWithoutLandlords in Black Oakland: An Interview with Noni Session
#LandWithoutLandlords in Black Oakland: An Interview with Noni Sessions
05 Dec 2018
A dynamic new community project has been launched to halt the push-out of Black and brown people from Oakland by taking land and housing out of the speculative market.
Glenn Greenwald
CNN Fires Marc Lamont Hill, Submits to Right-Wing Mob
05 Dec 2018
Our discourse is now drowning under demands that speech be banned if powerful constituencies think it “hurtful” -- especially the Israel lobby.
Mychal Denzel Smith
The Gatekeepers: The Burden of the Black Public Intellectual
05 Dec 2018
Black intellectuals wind up offering mainly white audiences a “foreign experience” to savor from a comfortable distance.
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Judge to Soon Rule on Mumia’s Appeal Bid
04 Dec 2018
Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Leon Tucker promised a decision on whether a former prosecutor unlawfully took part as a judge in rejecting Mumia Abu Jamal’s appeal of his 1981 conviction in the ki
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Chicago Movement to Target Pro-Cop City Council Members
03 Dec 2018
“There are 34 alderpeople who were all part of the conspiracy to hide the video” that was key to proving a Chicago cop murdered Laquan McDonald, said Black Lives Matter activist Aislinn Pul
Zachariah Wilkerson
Frank Talk on Little Rock's Frank Scott
29 Nov 2018
“What better way to enslave a man then to give him the vote and tell him he is free.” – Albert Camus
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Democrats Win and Black People Lose
28 Nov 2018
If the Democrats were a true political party Nancy Pelosi’s failures would have taken her out of the running for any leadership position.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Ocasio-Cortez, Nancy Pelosi, and the Con of Diversity
28 Nov 2018
Poor people, especially poor Black Americans, cannot eat from or survive off “diversity.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Keisha Lindsay’s “In a Classroom of Their Own”and Dixa Ramirez’s “Colonial Phantoms”
27 Nov 2018
Our authors address global anti-Blackness and the particular Dominican Republic variety, and examine the pros and cons of all black male schooling.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Abolition Spotlight Editor
BAR Abolition Spotlight: Derecka Purnell
27 Nov 2018
Police abolitionists “want a society that works to eliminate harm and promote liberation and self-determination.”