African America

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.”
Wolfgang Bronner
North Nashville's Reckoning: The Fight for Sovereignty in the Shadow of a Data Center
19 Aug 2026
Fisk University, an HBCU, is presenting a $400 million A.I. data center as progress for the North Nashville community. In truth, it means more pollution, more surveillance, and another chapter in a…
Ryan Kost
A Judge Said Queens Prosecutors Hid Evidence. A Secret Committee Cleared Them Anyway.
19 Aug 2026
The mass incarceration system demands thousands of Black bodies behind bars. That system is maintained by prosecutorial misconduct which goes unpunished. That impunity is integral to keeping the…
Karin Stanford
Afterlife of a Hijacker
11 Aug 2026
Former Black Panther Deputy Minister of Defense Byron Booth's journey from Compton to Cuba, Algiers to Lagos, reveals the global reach of Black radicalism in a 2016 interview.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
"Real Talk" from Kamala Harris on the Voting Rights Act Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
04 Aug 2026
The evisceration of the Voting Rights Act is of great concern to Black voters. But most of them are affiliated with the Democratic Party, whose leadership have no real interest in making it a…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
INTERVIEW: “I, for one, know I’m a prisoner of War,” Herbert X. Blyden, 1973
04 Aug 2026
“I don't mean just in the struggles in these prisons. America is one whole concentration camp in and of itself.”
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Trash Panda Politics Guides the Black Misleadership Class’s Electoral Dumpster Dive
29 Jul 2026
The Congressional Black Caucus electoral strategy has turned the 2026 midterm elections into a dumpster dive for corporate interests and Zionist approval.
Mark P. Fancher
The Foolish, Futile Struggle to be Both African and American Will be Televised
29 Jul 2026
Corporate media require American identity politics which contradict African authenticity.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Building Black Self-Determination and Ending the Politics of Fear
22 Jul 2026
Black political self-determination is always tenuous, even when Black people hold office. Now that DSA and other leftists are winning elections, the contradictions of Black politics are becoming more…
John Parker
Supreme Court targets Voting Rights Act of 1965 – denying justice and peace
22 Jul 2026
The fight for the ballot has always been tied to a wider war against Black political power, against workers, against the people paying for empire abroad and austerity at home.