African America

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.
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
Umar A Farooq
Judge Orders Release of Three 'Newburgh Four', Says FBI 'invented conspiracy'
02 Aug 2023
The U.S. embarked on a spree of entrapments in the post-9/11 years. Informants were used against gullible and vulnerable people, most of them Black, in order to secure spurious convictions and…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Censorship of the Black Left
26 Jul 2023
As the empire crumbles, the neoliberal capitalist order run by a corrupt duopoly is working to silence dissent. The Black left, of course, is always the first target.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Spirituality and Black August: An Interview with Kalonji Changa
26 Jul 2023
As part of the Black Agenda Report Book Forum, we interview scholars and activists about a recent article they’ve written for either an academic journal or popular publication. Sometimes we discuss…
Forrest Palmer
How the Climate Crisis is Most Detrimental to the Black Community
19 Jul 2023
The earth recently experienced its hottest days on record. Here in the U.S. Black people face the worst consequences of the climate crisis.