Black Self-Determination

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Building Black Self-Determination and Ending the Politics of Fear
22 Jul 2026
Black political self-determination is always tenuous, even when Black people hold office. Now that DSA and other leftists are winning elections, the contradictions of Black politics are becoming more…
Pan-African Community Action
COMMUNITY CONTROL DC: A People’s Platform for Collective Self-Determination
11 Mar 2026
While Washington DC's political leadership changes, Pan-African Community Action (PACA) is organizing to ensure that Black communities are empowered in decision making processes.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Adam Bledsoe
04 Jan 2023
This week’s featured scholar is Adam Bledsoe. Bledsoe is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota. His article “Neither Ground on Which to Stand, nor Self to Defend: The…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Is Back Coalition Partners Praise 19-Point Self-Determination Agenda
15 Mar 2021
At a webinar last week, Jericho Movement chairperson Jihad Abdulmumit said the Black Is Back Coalition’s National Black Political Agenda for Self-Determination “covers everything,
Dean Spade and Roberto Sirvent, BAR Contributors
BAR Abolition Mutual Aid Spotlight: Ujimaa Medics
25 Mar 2020
Chicago’s Ujimaa Medics bring a racial justice and cultural specificity lens to community health care through mutual aid.
Amanda Reid
There Is a Scottsboro in Every Country
24 Apr 2019
The “Black Belt” was a vision of a sovereign black nation within the southern United States.