African America

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia Gets, and Gives, literary Praise
19 Dec 2017
Supporters of the nation’s best known political prisoner filled Harlem’s “Raw Space” to celebrate his life and latest book, Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? The event featured Mumia
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Voters Energized to Fight Raw Racism
19 Dec 2017
It took the likes of Alabama’s Roy Moore to bring Blacks to the polls in decisive numbers.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Our Open Letter To NAPO, MXGM, and Dr. Akinyele Umoja on Ultra-Leftism, the Democratic Party and the Movement in Jackson MS
14 Dec 2017
On December 1, our comrade and friend Akinyele Umoja published a piece titled “’
Ken Morgan
Blacks and the Alabama U.S. Senatorial Race
13 Dec 2017
“The capitalist moribund two-party electoral politics takes us down a dead-end road.”
Morgan Humphrey
The Assassinations, Hyper-Surveillance and Harassment of Blacks is Just Business as Usual for Law Enforcement
13 Dec 2017
“The drug war is the justification to create a police state of black and Latinx communities.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia Thanks His Supporters
12 Dec 2017
Activists gathered in Philadelphia to march, attend teach-ins and demand freedom for Mumia Abu Jamal, who has spent 35 years behind bars in the death of a policeman.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
International Commission Probes U.S. Police Impunity
12 Dec 2017
Maria Hamilton, mother of Dontre Hamilton, a mentally challenged young Black man who died in a hail of Milwaukee police gunfire in 2014, was among those that testified at hearings
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Universities Nurtured Ideology of Slavery
12 Dec 2017
A group of Black students at the University of Chicago is demanding the institution acknowledge its financial roots in the slave system and make reparations to the Black community.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Blacks, War and the Phony “Resistance”
07 Dec 2017
“The Democrats are ‘all in’ for the Pentagon, including a majority of the Congressional Black Caucus.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Cooperation Jackson's Kali Akuno: Elections Don’t Necessarily Change a Damn Thing
06 Dec 2017
A key strategist among the Black radicals that were behind the election of two Black mayors in Jackson, Mississippi, says his fellow activists have a decision to make: “Are we trying to be a good s