African America

Benjamin Weiser , Maria Cramer
N.Y.P.D. Unwilling to Impose Discipline for Stop and Frisk, Report Says
25 Sep 2024
The department’s discipline for illegal street detentions is lax at every level, according to an extraordinary review ordered by a federal judge.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Haiti and Springfield, Ohio
18 Sep 2024
Haitians are unforgiven for waging a successful Black revolution. Racism follows wherever they go, even in a state like Ohio, which is in need of a labor force and a larger population. Of course,…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist , Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
From the Phony Debate and Gaza to the Uhuru 3: The U.S./EU Commitment to Human Rights is and Has Always Been a Lie
18 Sep 2024
State repression increases as the so-called democracies continue in a state of crisis. Only a people-centered human rights struggle can bring true justice and peace.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Sen. McCarthy Called Me, Eslanda Goode Robeson, 16 July 1953
18 Sep 2024
Eslanda Goode Robeson stood tall against red-baiting. So should we.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sam C. Tenorio’s Book, “Jump”
18 Sep 2024
This week’s featured author is Sam C. Tenorio. Tenorio is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Department of African American Studies at The…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Curbfest for Political Prisoners
06 Sep 2024
We are joined by Jasiri Fahali Kiyamaa, an organizer of Curbfest, an event advocating for political prisoners. New York City's Curbfest will take place on Saturday, September 7, 2024 in Brooklyn.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley , Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Glen Ford: Say Political Prisoners Names While They Still Live
06 Sep 2024
In 2020 our late comrade Glen Ford spoke at a Black is Back Coalition video conference on political prisoners. In these excerpts of his remarks, he discussed the need to understand the political…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio September 6, 2024
06 Sep 2024
In this week’s segment we hear about the exploitation of ride share workers and a labor action in Tennessee, a state hostile to worker organizing. But first we discuss organizing on behalf of…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: The New Pimps or, It’s Hip to be Black: The Failure of Black Studies, Don L. Lee, 1971
04 Sep 2024
Was Black Studies doomed to fail? Revisiting a critical take on its origins.
Too Black
Unburdened by Palestine: Shedding Black liberalism for anti-imperialism
04 Sep 2024
Liberals are demanding that Black people in the U.S. put aside our long tradition of anti-imperialism to support Kamala Harris and sacrifice Palestine in the process.