US Politics

Rhondda Robinson Thomas
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Sarah Haley’s "No Mercy Here"
27 May 2020
In white patriarchy-ruled South Carolina at the turn of the 20th century, manhood sometimes created temporary yet tenuous bonds between Black and white men.
The Public Archive
Haiti’s Revolutions and Revisions: An Interview with Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg
27 May 2020
Toussaint stressed that freedom was something that had to be fought for and taken from below by the masses themselves.
Barbara Arnwine, Curtis Cooper and Adjoa A. Aiyetoro
The Spy Plane Over Baltimore is a Tool of Voter Suppression
27 May 2020
The eye-in-the-sky tells residents of the majority Black city that they are enemies of the state -- to be watched and, ultimately, crushed.
Rohn Kenyatta
Once Dead, Thrice Killed
27 May 2020
The summary execution of my brothers, sisters, women, men and children is so commonplace that it becomes numbing ‘white’ noise in the minds of an entire continent.
Lizzie Presser
The Black American Amputation Epidemic
27 May 2020
Black patients lose limbs at a rate triple that of others, despite the fact that diabetic amputations are, by some measures, the most preventable surgery in the country.
Stan Karp
Getting a Covid-19 Education: From Race to the Top to a Plunge to the Bottom
27 May 2020
As bad as the Obama/Duncan era was for public education, the current administration is even more hostile.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 25, 2020
26 May 2020
Black Is Back Coalition’s “Ballot and the Bulllet” Electoral School
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Lasting Legacy of Combahee River Collective Statement
26 May 2020
In 1977 a group of Black feminists issued a statement that “has been a kind of touchstone over the decades for women who are thinking about women’s issues through the intersectional lens of racism,
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Another ALD, But Africa Still Not Free
26 May 2020
More than a half century after most African states gained nominal independence, the continent is still economically and politically dependent on “external actors,” said Ndubuisi Christ
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Mumia: US Incapable of Protecting Its People
26 May 2020
The nation’s best known political prisoner asks, “Who really believes that the US government can, or will, vaccinate over 300 million people – a government that can’t find the people it promised to