US Politics

Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Truth About Defunding Police
09 Jun 2021
“Defunding” the police has often turned out to be an accounting trick, but community control of police – a righteous demand – must also ensure that all government functions addre
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Corporate Think Tank Reveals How Profit-Driven Motives Drive New Cold War against China
09 Jun 2021
The same report paradoxically acknowledges the failure of the economic model the U.S. has tried to impose on the rest of the world.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
TRANSCRIPT: Gerald Horne: Haiti and African Liberation in the Americas
09 Jun 2021
The Haitian Revolution was not only a victory for the millions of enslaved Africans in the Americas, it was a victory for all working class people.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Prelude to War? The US/NATO, Egypt, and Ethiopian Sovereignty
09 Jun 2021
Ethiopian American activist and community organizer Benyam Kitaw tells Ann Garrison that US hostility toward Ethiopia could lead to further sanctions, economic pressure, and perhaps even war.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Ladee Blu: Another Monroe Doctrine delivery system
09 Jun 2021
Raytheon’s craven raven Co-signing for mass murder: “Mowing the grass…” Now… Ladee Blu on a fool’s errand dis- seminating The Monroe Doctrine—this is what
Too Black
From Black Wall Street to Black Capitalism
09 Jun 2021
Contrary to the Black capitalist myth, most Greenwood residents were low wage working people employed by whites and living in substandard housing.
Taytu Bitul
How to Wreck a Black Nation In the Age of “Black Lives Matter”
09 Jun 2021
Today’s colonialists recruit Black politicians and Black terrorist groups who are willing to play along.
Joy James
“New Bones” Abolitionism, Communism, and Captive Maternals
09 Jun 2021
Joy James uses poet Lucille Clifton's image of “new bones” to reflect on a series of revolutionary anniversaries in 2021 and the nature of political leadership.
Rachel Afi Quinn
BAR Book Forum: Rachel Afi Quinn’s “Being La Dominicana”
09 Jun 2021
Dominican racial logic frequently contradicts what US scholars think they know about how race works.
Tiffany N. Florvil
BAR Book Forum: Tiffany N. Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany”
09 Jun 2021
Black History Month strengthened Black German claims of kinship with their nation and the larger diaspora.