African America

Benjamin Woods
Class Struggle and National Liberation in the Movement for Black Lives
30 Mar 2016
by Benjamin Woods The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) must recognize the dynamic relationship between race and class in Black America – contradictions that “can only be resolved through explicit,…
Peter James Hudson
The Racist Dawn of Capitalism: Unearthing the Economy of Bondage
30 Mar 2016
by Peter James Hudson Capitalist historians and other political actors attempt to treat chattel slavery as a “pre-capitalist” system that was extirpated in the Americas by its supposed nemesis…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 28, 2016
29 Mar 2016
Colonial Chickens Come Home to Roost in the West In the wake of the Brussels bombing, we hear variations of the same old theme: “They [Muslims] hate us [the ‘West’] because of our freedoms.” However…
Raul Castro Should Ask Obama: What About U.S. Political Prisoners?
23 Mar 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The man who presides over the largest prison population in the world, a system that is still holding political dissidents captured a half…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
EPA Officials Didn’t “Want to go Out on a Limb” for the People of Flint
23 Mar 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The federal and state actors that poisoned Flint, Michigan’s water tried to pin the crime on each other at a congressional hearing, last week.…
Robin D.G. Kelley
Black Study, Black Struggle
23 Mar 2016
by Robin D.G. Kelly Robin D.G. Kelley opened a debate published by the Boston Review. “The fully racialized social and epistemological architecture upon which the modern university is built cannot be…
Mark P. Fancher
Confessions of a Neo-Caucasian
23 Mar 2016
by Mark P. Fancher Human rights attorney and frequent BAR contributor Mark Fancher recently had a close encounter of the white supremacist kind. He learned that Donald Trump plans to use his awesome…
Solomon Comissiong
What if Most Trump Supporters Were People of Color or Muslims?
23 Mar 2016
by Solomon Comissiong European global expansion has been marked by white crimes against humanity for half a millennium. In the U.S. white settler state, non-whites and Muslims are profiled as…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 21, 2016
22 Mar 2016
Black Power Matters in 2016 “Fear of fascism being ‘right around the corner’ – this time in the form of Donald Trump – always means a vote for some kind of Democrat, as opposed to building our own…
Black Is Back Coalition Holds National Conference on Self-Determination and 2016 Elections
16 Mar 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Election seasons are consumed by talk of which candidates and parties are “winning.” But, Black people never win, even if one of them is…