African America

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Why We Remember Katrina
27 Aug 2025
Twenty years ago, the world witnessed not just the suffering of the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The United States was revealed to be a failed state, controlled by the cruelties of racialized…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: This is Criminal, Malik Rahim, New Orleans, September 1st, 2005
27 Aug 2025
“It’s not like New Orleans was caught off guard. This could have been prevented.”
Jon Jeter
From Jim Crow to Katrina to Gentrification, Tracing the Rise and Fall of New Orleans Working Class
27 Aug 2025
A forgotten history of cross-racial labor solidarity in 1890s New Orleans offered a glimpse of a potential future. Its deliberate destruction set the stage for the city's modern transformation into a…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Synergy of the Sacrificed: Katrina and the Praxis of Imperial Domination
27 Aug 2025
Twenty years after Katrina, the disaster stands not as an anomaly but as a blueprint. Its aftermath reveals a template for imperial domination, where "natural" disasters become pretexts for…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Ethnic cleansing called Katrina
27 Aug 2025
"Ethnic cleansing called Katrina" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Jaribu Hill
Solidarity, not Charity—End Jim Crow Recovery—Restore All Communities
27 Aug 2025
Jaribu Hill, Executive Director of the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights, recounts the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast and the efforts to organize on behalf of the people.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Katrina: The Rich Folks' Opportunity and Our Dismal Failure
27 Aug 2025
"Racism showed its ass in the days after August 29, 2005."
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
The People, Not FEMA, Saved Themselves
27 Aug 2025
The official response to Katrina was a catastrophic failure of the state. The real story of survival was written by a coalition of the discarded—ex-offenders and Black churches—who built their own…
Jon Jeter
Clutching at Pearls, the World’s Largest Criminal Enterprise, the US, Cracks Down on Crime
20 Aug 2025
The latest liberal discourse on crime offers useless panaceas to analyze the causes of violence and pathologizes communities while absolving the state of its role in creating these conditions.
Pan-African Community Action PACA
The Federal Takeover of D.C.: The Colonial Occupation Disguised as “Public Safety”
20 Aug 2025
The deployment of federal agents and National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. is a militarized occupation disguised as a public safety initiative. This move weaponizes the state's power to…