African America

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Control of the Police is a Democratic Right
16 Aug 2017
The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations held its annual conference in Chicago, highlighting its 19-point National Black Political Agenda for Self-Determination.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Indecency of the Black Misleadership Class
09 Aug 2017
If Congresswoman Barbara Lee is among the best that the Black political class has to offer -- which she is -- then that class is “wholly unfit to guide the politics of 40 million people.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Defeat of American Workers
09 Aug 2017
Capital is winning every round of the class war. Nissan scared Mississippi auto workers out of joining a union, and Foxconn extorted $3 billion to locate a plant in Wisconsin. Republicans cheered.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Barbara Lee and Tulsi Gabbard Side with War Party on Sanctions
09 Aug 2017
The Democrats’ two leading congressional dissidents have finally surrendered, now that the party has “taken the lead in the project of endless war.” U.S.
Dr. Jahi Issa , Reggie A. Mabry , Patrick Delices
“Reparations is Dead” Authors Seek to Spark Public Discussion of New Legal Strategy
08 Aug 2017
by Dr. Jahi Issa, Reggie A. Mabry, Patrick Delices
Mike Elk
“Nissan, You Made Us Mad”: Union Promises to Fight Mississippi Defeat
08 Aug 2017
A coalition of community groups, students, clergy and environmentalis
Olivia Paschal
The Latest Challenges to the South's Felony Disenfranchisement Laws
08 Aug 2017
by Olivia Paschal
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Tell Trump, and the Democrats, Too: We Demand Black Community Control of the Police
03 Aug 2017
Donald Trump’s outrageous incitement of police brutality serves the purposes of corporate reformers, who then set the bar of people’s demands even lower. If “anything is better than Trump,” then the…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Lie of Academic Freedom
02 Aug 2017
Scholars of color have become easy targets for right wing internet trolls and “any whining white person with a gripe.” University campuses claim to be bastions of freedom of speech and inquiry –…
Pascal Robert on the Project of Black Nationalism and the Black Misleadership Class
02 Aug 2017
BAR contributor Pascal Robert takes the mic at Dead Pundits Society to discuss the Haitian scene, his love-hate relationship to the project of black nationalism and its relationship to class struggle…