African America

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Jackson MS Organizations Petition EPA for Emergency Relief on Water System
18 Aug 2023
Brooke Floyd is co-director of the Jackson People’s Assembly at the People's Advocacy Institute.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
LETTER: For George, The Seventh of August Movement, 1971
16 Aug 2023
A letter commemorating George Jackson speaks to the origins of Black August.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Manchild in the land of cotton
16 Aug 2023
Too Black
Black August for the Pendleton 2
16 Aug 2023
Black August is an important month of political education, but it should not solely be about the past. The continued existence of a mass incarceration state targeting Black people…
Dyana Bagby
Atlanta’s Appeal of ‘Stop Cop City’ Referendum Denied as Petition Nears 80,000 Signatures
16 Aug 2023
The grassroots movement to put a Cop City referendum on the ballot came closer to becoming a reality when a federal judge denied the city of Atlanta's appeal to stop the petition drive.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio August 11, 2023
11 Aug 2023
In this week’s segment we hear about the origins of Black August with a former political prisoner, and we hear analysis of the U.S. response to the recent military coup in Niger. But first we discuss…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
New York City Loses Black Population Due to Lack of Affordable Housing
11 Aug 2023
Leah Goodridge joins us from New York City to talk about that city’s loss of its Black population, 200,000 people in the last 20 years.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Jihad Abdulmumit on the Significance of Black August
11 Aug 2023
In August 2020 the late Glen Ford spoke to former political prisoner Jihad Abdulmumit of the Jericho Movement about the origins and importance of Black August.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Musings from the Margins #2: From Atlanta and Haiti, to Niger, the Western War Against Africans and Collective Humanity Intensifies
09 Aug 2023
The war against Africans intensifies, the puppets and stooges do as they are ordered, while others are satisfied with empty gestures. But the revolutionary path is unchanged, as Ajamu Baraka…
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…