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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 explains…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Managers
01 Mar 2023
Managers
Gus Griffin
The Super Bowl and the Trouble with First Black Symbolism
08 Feb 2023
Whether Super Bowl quarterbacks, or presidents, or police chiefs, unquestioned admiration of the "first Black" should come to an end.
Too Black
Laboring Beyond Black Representation
06 Apr 2022
The allure of Black representation in high places can be very dangerous. A Black man organizes an unprecedented union victory but gets less attention than one celebrity slapping another. Yet it is…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Elections and the Illusion of Black Political Power
03 Nov 2021
Black politicians may be openly conservative or pretend leftists but their constituents rarely get what they need.