African America

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Grand Theft Water in Detroit
14 Nov 2017
The same corporations that forced Detroit into bankruptcy in 2013 are attempting to steal the city’s water supply, said Josiah Rector, professor of history at Northland College.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Race, Repression and Russiagate: Defending Radical Black Self-Determination
08 Nov 2017
“Once again, Black opposition is being cast as somehow foreign influenced and, therefore, a security threat that justifies special targeted repression.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Donna Brazile -- No Honor Among Thieves
08 Nov 2017
“The Democratic Party had its thumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
A Brief Review of the Philadelphia Conference That Celebrated an Enemy of the US Government
08 Nov 2017
“The conference condemned the many ways in which Temple and other academies of ‘higher education’ fully collaborate with the gentrification, poverty, and oppression experienced by worki
James Hill, Jr.
Kneeling and the (Re)Signification of the Black Fantastic
08 Nov 2017
“By utilizing their seismic platform as well as the medium of mass communication, the performative act of kneeling during the anthem unsettles the naturalized mythos of the racial state
Ashley Farmer
Black Women Radicals of the Past Offer the Best Hope for Our Future
08 Nov 2017
“In the latter half of the 20th century, black women theorists offered critical insight into how we might develop emancipatory strategies.”
Mark P. Fancher
Buffalo Soldiers Go To Africa
08 Nov 2017
“The last thing any African in the US wants or needs is the prospect of death in pursuit of a corporate agenda in Africa.”
Prince Shakur
Youth Incarceration in the United States, Explained
08 Nov 2017
“First Lady Hillary Clinton referred to certain youths as ‘super-predators.’”
Peta Lindsay
Black Bolsheviks and White Lies: Reflections on the Black Radical Tradition
08 Nov 2017
“American blacks needed no outsiders to awaken their sense of the tremendous contradiction between America's professed beliefs and its actual practices.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Puerto Rico Getting the Detroit Treatment
07 Nov 2017
Puerto Rico, a hurricane-ravaged colony of the U.S., has been subjected to much the same financial dictatorship as Detroit, a Black internal colony, said Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of