Red Scare

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor , Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
BAR Book Forum: Charisse Burden-Stelly’s Book, “Black Scare / Red Scare”
01 Nov 2023
This week’s featured author is Charisse Burden-Stelly. Burden-Stelly is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Her book is Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing…
Jasper Saah
Journalists or Witch Hunters? Examining the New York Times’ Shameful Red Scare History
12 Jul 2023
Joseph McCarthy carried out his red scare with the help of establishment media like the New York Times. Its recent Sinophobic screeds follow the Biden administration narrative and are consistent with…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Africans in the US are a Colonized People: A Comment on the Indictment of the African People's Socialist Party
03 May 2023
Red Scares, McCarthyism, COINTELPRO, "Black Identity Extremists" are all indicative of how the colonized are treated by the state.
Jacqueline Luqman
DOJ Indictment Against The APSP Is An Old Tactic In The Government's Perpetual War On Black Radical Organizing
03 May 2023
Federal indictments against the African People's Socialist Party are part of a long history of attacks on Black leftists.