African America

Denise Powell
A Southern Reckoning with the Medical Myth of Race as a Diagnostic Tool
30 Sep 2026
Race is a sociopolitical construct, not a biological truth. The real determinants of health are structural factors such as zip code, environmental pollution, and access to resources.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Waging War Against the People on Behalf of Capital: The Roots of U.S. Domestic Repression
23 Sep 2026
The "Antifa summit" and the NSPM-7 represent another institutional step toward consolidating fascism in the United States by criminalizing opposition to fascism itself.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Open Letter to Marxists, Gwendolyn M. Patton, 1975
23 Sep 2026
“...the science for revolutionary change…is forged by human persuasion and building social consciousness based on the class analysis which sees the struggle against racism as central.”
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Symone Sanders Minstrel Show Demonstrates the Desolation of the Black Misleadership Class
23 Sep 2026
Symone Sanders interview with Hasan Piker exposed her as a bad-faith interlocutor who uses identity as a cudgel while remaining silent on the poverty, pollution, and police violence that plague the…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Black Radicalism and the Return of the “Subversive Negro”
16 Sep 2026
NSPM-7 and the State Department's international campaign against "far-left political terrorism" represent new and more dangerous forms of domestic repression in the 21st century, while reconstructing…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Colin Kaepernick’s “The Perilous Fight”
16 Sep 2026
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Colin Kaepernick.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Path Black to Socialism: Dispatches from the 2026 Socialism Conference
09 Sep 2026
Many in the U.S. "Left" are actually liberal elements that pull socialism toward the Democratic Party. Black organizers must build independent power.
Austin Cole
Attica Lives and Shares Lessons on Abolitionist Internationalism & Anti-Imperialist Solidarity
09 Sep 2026
The Attica rebellion was not only about prison "reform." The prison is the most intense expression of a system of imperialist domination that operates at every scale.
Michael Steven Smith
Meet the Radical Legal Collective That Won Justice for Fred Hampton and Continues Fighting to This Day
09 Sep 2026
Longtime attorney Flint Taylor’s new book tells the story of the People’s Law Collective, which grew out of the radical movements of the late 1960s.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Johanna Fernández and her Unrelenting Advocacy for Mumia Abu Jamal
19 Aug 2026
The late Dr. Johanna Fernández left an awesome intellectual and activist legacy that includes her 2010 documentary film “Justice on Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.”