African America

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
New York City Loses Black Population Due to Lack of Affordable Housing
11 Aug 2023
Leah Goodridge joins us from New York City to talk about that city’s loss of its Black population, 200,000 people in the last 20 years.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Jihad Abdulmumit on the Significance of Black August
11 Aug 2023
In August 2020 the late Glen Ford spoke to former political prisoner Jihad Abdulmumit of the Jericho Movement about the origins and importance of Black August.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Musings from the Margins #2: From Atlanta and Haiti, to Niger, the Western War Against Africans and Collective Humanity Intensifies
09 Aug 2023
The war against Africans intensifies, the puppets and stooges do as they are ordered, while others are satisfied with empty gestures. But the revolutionary path is unchanged, as Ajamu Baraka…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Alex A. Moulton and Inge Salo
09 Aug 2023
This week’s featured scholars are Alex A. Moulton and Inge Salo. Moulton is an Assistant Professor at Hunter College. Salo is a PhD student in Geography at Clark University. Their article is “Black…
Jenny Brown
Hotel Workers Strike Against Scab Staffing App and Anti-Black Racism
09 Aug 2023
A hotel workers strike in California exposes anti-Black hiring practices, and the predation of the "gig" economy.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Dems and Repubs are Moneypots, Not Real Political Parties
02 Aug 2023
If the Democrats were a real, mass based party, they would never consider Joe Biden as their nominee because he has no support among the people that energize parties: the youth.
The Editors
A Tribute to Glen Ford
02 Aug 2023
"What would Glen Ford say?" That question is one which we often ask ourselves two years after his passing.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Believe Absolutely Nothing the US Government and Media Say About ...Anything
02 Aug 2023
It is true now just as when Glen Ford wrote these words in 2019. In any alliance with corporate oppression and militarism, Black America squanders reservoirs of respect among the Earth’s peoples.…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
War in Africa and War in the Americas: Accelerating the End of White World Supremacy
02 Aug 2023
“The structural crisis of capitalism in its neoliberal form has created a legitimacy crisis for the capitalist rulers, making the use of force a permanent strategy for maintaining their dominance.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Upside of slavery according to Governor Woke Smoke?
02 Aug 2023
“…most slave children were prohibited from learning to read or write…” —James Mellon, Editor of Bullwhip Days