African America

Walter Johnson
To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice
02 Nov 2016
by Walter Johnson Now that serious Marxists are agreed that chattel slavery was not only capitalist, but the basis of global capitalism, it is time to reexamine our notions of rights and reparations…
Black Agenda Report for Week of Oct 31, 2016
01 Nov 2016
The Missing Black Movement Ingredient: Self-Determination The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations will hold a National Black Political Convention on Self-Determination,…
Gary Younge
An All-American Slaughter: The Youthful Carnage of America’s Gun Culture
26 Oct 2016
by Gary Younge “America rationalizes its status as both the most unequal and the most violent industrialized society in the world by dismissing the victims of “gang-related” violence as undeserving…
Black Agenda Report for Week of Oct 24, 2016
25 Oct 2016
20 Years of Genocide in Congo Friends of Congo marked the 20th anniversary of the invasion and genocide that has killed at least six million Congolese with an all-day event at Thoughtworks, in New…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Is Back Coalition to Hold a People’s Convention on Self-Determination
19 Oct 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford On November 5 and 6, a coalition of Black organizations will put forward a 19-point National Agenda for Self-Determination, to chart a pathway to real democracy and…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Henry Louis Gates' $10 Million Scam
19 Oct 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, “the supreme hustler-in-chief of black America,” has sold his white corporate friends on a $10 million scheme to advise…
Benjamin Woods
Advancing Black Liberation Through Economic Justice
19 Oct 2016
by Benjamin Woods Black America has always revered education as a stairway to progress, but the data show that “education has not created social mobility for Black people, and it has done little to…
Black Agenda Report for Week of Oct 17, 2016
18 Oct 2016
If Trump is a Fascist, What is Clinton? Speaking to a gathering of the Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition, in Atlanta, Black Agenda Report executive editor Glen Ford challenged those who maintain…
Chris Hedges
The New Slave Revolt
12 Oct 2016
by Chris Hedges Severe state repression and a near-total press blackout make it impossible to determine how many prisoners are continuing the national work strike that began on September 9th. The…
Jamie Kalven
Watch Your Back: How Chicago Cops Enforce Their Code of Silence
12 Oct 2016
by Jamie Kalven The conventional wisdom is that Chicago’s Blue Code of Silence operates at the lower ranks, on the cop-to-cop level, and has now been exposed to the public glare. But the weight…