African America

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: The Meaning of African Liberation Day: Walter Rodney, May 27, 1972
26 May 2021
At the 1972 event, Walter Rodney proclaimed that “black unity must be international because we live on every continent, through no choice of our own.”
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Preachin’ to the Choir (for Joe, Linda, Tim…)
26 May 2021
2020’s hindsight—frost in the rearview mirror. Miles Ahead… I’m Sheltered in Solidarity with National Poetry Month and Jazz Appreciation Month— April in Boston—warm cider
Dr. Gerald Horne
Against Left-Wing White Nationalism
26 May 2021
Much of what is called the “left” still insists that the American “revolution” of 1776 is “unfinished,” when history shows that white supremacy was the intended result.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Michael Rothberg’s “The Implicated Subject”
26 May 2021
Most people contribute to injustice not as direct perpetrators but as indirect participants who enable, perpetuate, benefit from, and inherit histories of violence and contemporary systems of explo
C. Riley Snorton
BAR Book Forum: C. Riley Snorton’s “Black on Both Sides”
26 May 2021
The inhabitation of the un-gender-specific and “fungible” also mapped the affective grounds for imagining other qualities of life and being for those marked by and for captivity.
Marya Hannun
How Black Lives Matter Changed the American Conversation About Israel and Palestine
26 May 2021
The surge of attention to the Israeli occupation is unimaginable without last year’s “George Floyd” protests.
Jon Jeter
Silent for 20 Years, an Ex-NBA Player Erupts in a Cogent Critique of Anti-Black Media
26 May 2021
The corporate sports media practices a kind of settler state “Orientalism,” blaming black players for the ills of an industry owned by rich white men.
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
The Emperor’s New Rules
26 May 2021
The US claims that it respects the international rule on law, but instead makes up the rules as it goes along, resulting in the death of millions.
Kweli Nzito
The Planet’s Most Powerful Zionist is a Puppet
26 May 2021
Roger D. Harris
Alex Saab v. The Empire: The US Tries to Extradite a Venezuelan Diplomat for Securing Food for the Hungry
26 May 2021
“By controlling the international financial system, Washington can demand banks in foreign countries to accept US restrictions or face sanctions themselves.”