African America

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Bittersweet Freedom for Mutulu Shakur
16 Nov 2022
Mutulu Shakur has been granted parole, but he is terminally ill. Black political prisoners in this country are held for 30, 40 and 50 years. Reprieve happens only when they are at death's door.
Benjamin Woods
Social Democracy Will Not Save Us
16 Nov 2022
The author makes the case that liberalism is a dead end and that socialism is the only tool for Black liberation.
Kim Ives
Colia Clark Presente!
16 Nov 2022
Colia Clark was a veteran of the Black Liberation Movement who worked with Medgar Evers, who was also affiliated with the NAACP and who served as Executive Secretary of the Student Non-Violent…
Salifu Mack
Identity Without Responsibility
16 Nov 2022
There have been endless news stories about basketball player Kyrie Irving. But insight on celebrity culture and acknowledgement of the confusion that is deliberately created in this country is…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
For African/Black Working Class and Colonized Peoples, Midterm Elections in the U.S. Offer No Relief from War, Repression and Capitalist Misery
09 Nov 2022
The 50 year old neo-liberal agenda explains why political choices in this country provide little change that benefits the masses of people. The recent midterm election results will not bring about an…
Onyesonwu Chatoyer , Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
“We Can Save Ourselves”: An Interview with Onyesonwu Chatoyer
09 Nov 2022
Onyesonwu Chatoyer of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party and BAR Book Forum Editor Roberto Sirvent discuss how "We Can Save Ourselves."
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Ayodeji Ogunnaike
09 Nov 2022
This week’s featured scholar is Ayodeji Ogunnaike. Ogunnaike is an assistant professor at Bowdoin College where he teaches interdisciplinary courses on Africa and the African Diaspora highlighting…
Black Alliance For Peace
The ‘Collective West’ Declares War on the World
09 Nov 2022
The U.S. remains committed to its efforts at securing hegemonic control of the world, but as always there is resistance domestically and internationally. The Black Alliance for Peace explains in its…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Stare Decisis? (Kansas City killer/kidnapper/serial rapist following in the footsteps of the Founding Fathers?)
26 Oct 2022
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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sami Schalk’s Book, “Black Disability Politics”
26 Oct 2022
This week’s featured author is Sami Schalk. Schalk is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Her book is Black Disability Politics.