African America

Chip Gibbons and Boots Riley
An Interview With Boots Riley: “In the World of Film, We’ve Edited out All Rebellion”
08 Aug 2018
“I think the movement needs to organize the 93 percent of the work force that is not organized.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Mehrsa Baradaran’s “The Color of Money”
08 Aug 2018
“’Black capitalism’ was a crucial part of President Nixon’s ‘southern strategy’ and the rhetoric and administration of his program is still intact.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Dr Fred Moten: The Black Social Self-View
06 Aug 2018
The constant denial of individual Black personhood that is a legacy of centuries of slavery has given us “a chance to organizer around something other than the debilitating and vicious notion of in
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Jihad Abdulmumit: Black Radical Movement Needs Infrastructure
06 Aug 2018
There is some continuity between today’s Black movement and the Sixties, however, “today’s struggle lacks the infrastructure in-the-hood-building” of the Panther era, said Jihad Abdulmumit
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Dr Anthony Monteiro: Capitalist Profits = People’s Impoverishment
06 Aug 2018
Apple’s triumph in becoming the first corporation in history to be valued at a trillion dollars is “in many ways a meaningless achievement for the vast majority of the American people,” said Dubosi
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Trump and the Politics of Neoliberal Distraction
01 Aug 2018
“If Trump decides to ‘throw a whistle-blower in jail for trying to talk to a reporter, or gets the F.B.I.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Russiagate Covers Up Black Vote Theft
01 Aug 2018
“The Democrats want our votes, but if we aren’t allowed to vote at all they pretend not to know.”
Annie Olaloku-Teriba
Afro-Pessimism and the (Un)Logic of Anti-Blackness
01 Aug 2018
“The meme of militant Black America has been allowed to cannibalise the broader traditions of resistance within which those militants were situated.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sylvia Chan-Malik’s “Being Muslim”
01 Aug 2018
“The book shows how deeply intertwined logics of anti-Muslim racism are with those of anti-Blackness.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tracy Fessenden’s “Religion Around Billie Holiday”
01 Aug 2018
“Billie Holiday reminds us to look unflinchingly at the face of power, to call things by their true names.”