African America

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Who Are the Enemies of Affirmative Action? Gerald Horne, 1980
19 Jul 2023
The enemies of affirmative action programs are not just slick conservatives and vulgar racists, but also greasy liberals, argues Gerald Horne. And their efforts to dismantle such programs began as…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Playing ‘SCOTUS Says’ to death?
19 Jul 2023
Playing ‘SCOTUS Says’ to death?
Jacqueline Luqman
RFK, Jr.: It’s Not Genetics, It’s Racial Capitalism
19 Jul 2023
Black people were disproportionately impacted by the covid pandemic. The causes of the crisis were systemic, not genetic.
Jon Jeter
The Soviet Union’s Support for Black Liberation Earns Russia Grace With Africans Everywhere
19 Jul 2023
The Soviet Union's support of liberation movements and the activism of the Communist Party in the U.S. is not forgotten by the African diaspora. Today the Russian Federation is a beneficiary of good…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The State's Constant Attack on Black Liberation
12 Jul 2023
Indictments, disruptions, arrests, defamation, incarceration and even assassination are the weapons used to discredit Black people who act in opposition to the system and who call for liberation…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Homegoing for Harry…
12 Jul 2023
“Every artist, every scientist, every writer
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Matthieu Chapman’s Book, “Shattered”
12 Jul 2023
This week’s featured author is Matthieu Chapman. Chapman is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz and the Literary Director of NY Classical…
Jacqueline Luqman
The History Of Affirmative Action Exposes Its Reactionary Weaknesses
12 Jul 2023
Affirmative action began as a reparations program but ends as a "diversity" project which barely benefits Black people.
Jon Jeter
Mourning Mutulu Shakur and the Black Radical Tradition that Modernized America
12 Jul 2023
The late Mutulu Shakur and other Black radicals were responsible for improving the lives of millions of people in the U.S. The counter revolution ended that period of progress, but the political…
Akinyele Umoja
Mutulu Shakur
12 Jul 2023
Mutulu Shakur passed away just seven months after being paroled. Like other political prisoners he was released only when he was terminally ill. The US has more political prisoners and incarcerates…