African America

Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Are Intersectionalism Or Afro-Pessimism Paths To Power? Probably Not. Part 3 of 3
16 Feb 2018
In parts one and two of this series I’ve talked about the fact that there are two conflicting versions of intersectionality, one employed by some honest to god leftists who reach backward across de
Adofo Minka
Jackson MS: Police Killings Continue Amid Mayoral Silence in the "Most Radical City on the Planet"
15 Feb 2018
In the last few months Jackson's supposedly radical mayor has lifted residency requirements for city police officers, and remained silent on a wave of officer involved shootings
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Bandit Baltimore Cops and the Black Misleadershp Class
15 Feb 2018
“The nominally Black-controlled local government is incapable of meaningful response.”
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
On the Black Panther Movie and the Limits of Our Imagination
15 Feb 2018
"...comics and sci fi brought to us by capitalist corporate media fail to imagine what a better world, or even the struggle to get there might look like"
Aziz Rana
Black Liberation Means Rejection of National Security (State) Citizenship
14 Feb 2018
“Oppressed communities have to articulate their own independent foreign policy grounded above all in the interests of other marginalized groups.”
Illinois Deaths in Custody Project
Making Visible the Lives and Deaths of People in Custody
14 Feb 2018
“Poor people should not be confined in a death machine.”
Keith “Comrade Malik” Washington
Criminalizing “Panther Love” and the New Wave COINTELPRO Tactics in Texas Prisons
14 Feb 2018
“I represent a new generation of freedom fighters who have learned from the mistakes of our fallen ancestors.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Lives Matter in the Public Schools
13 Feb 2018
Teachers in public schools around the country held a “Black Lives Matter Week of Action,” last week, demanding an end to “zero tolerance” student disciplinary policies, the hiring of more Black tea
Martin De Bourmont
Is a Court Case in Texas the First Prosecution of a “Black Identity Extremist”?
07 Feb 2018
“Daniels’s arrest poses the even more troubling possibility that his case could be just the first of many.”
Greg Godels
Scandalize my Name… New York Review of Books Slimes Paul Robeson
07 Feb 2018
“To fail to acknowledge the fact that Robeson and his work were virtually unknown, were erased by the thought police, underscores Callow’s unfitness to discuss