Education And Public Education

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Keisha Lindsay’s “In a Classroom of Their Own”and Dixa Ramirez’s “Colonial Phantoms”
27 Nov 2018
Our authors address global anti-Blackness and the particular Dominican Republic variety, and examine the pros and cons of all black male schooling.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Abolition Spotlight Editor
BAR Abolition Spotlight: Derecka Purnell
27 Nov 2018
Police abolitionists “want a society that works to eliminate harm and promote liberation and self-determination.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Policing is More Than Clubs and Guns
26 Nov 2018
For Black people, policing is spread “across multiple state institutions,” including social welfare agency surveillance and school-to-prison pipelines, “and we can trace that history back to slaver
Critical Resistance
A National Abolitionist Victory for Public Health!
22 Nov 2018
Stop using police to deal with social problems and contain marginalized communities, says a report by a group representing 25,000 public health professionals.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Prison Officials Encourage Recidivism
19 Nov 2018
The nation’s best known political prisoner says prison officials don’t want to break the cycle of recidivism that sends former inmates back to confinement.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Liberation Theology is a Force in Islam
19 Nov 2018
Throughout the Muslim world, the poor struggle against entrenched elites over the nature of a just society,” said Shadaab Rahemtulla, a professor at the University of Jordan and au
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Walidah Imarisha’s “Angels With Dirty Faces“and Vincent Lloyd’s “Religion of the Field Negro”
14 Nov 2018
Our authors explore the evils of incarceration and the promise of Black liberation theology.
Barbara Foley
Intersectionality: A Marxist Critique
14 Nov 2018
The author argues that “intersectionality is less valuable as an explanatory framework than as an ideological reflection of the times.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Hip Hop Forges Black and Native American Solidarity
13 Nov 2018
Kyle Mays, who teaches at the African American Studies Department and the Native American Center at UCLA, says Hip Hop “builds solidarity between the two communities,” which share
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
On Rage, Reading Books, and Other Necessities for the “Millennial Generation”
07 Nov 2018
Young people in the US are increasingly open to socialism and radical ideas, but less likely to study the science of revolutionary change.