US Politics

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
REVIEW ESSAY: A Truncated Story of Black Rebellion, Charisse Burden-Stelly
23 Jun 2021
Black violence functioned as both a political challenge to racial domination and a political rationale for both the intensification and normalization of aggressive and pervasive policing in poor Bl
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Ethiopians Go to the Polls Even After the US Tells Them Not to
23 Jun 2021
Many Ethiopians expressed enthusiasm for what they consider the country’s first real, competitive election, writes Ann Garrison.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The Town Crier’s Big Tooth Fund (For Drs. Rosenthal, Sapir and Ferdowsi)
23 Jun 2021
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs…” —Karl Marx
Black Alliance For Peace
US Militarism Kills at Home and Abroad
23 Jun 2021
We regard militarism as the antithesis of revolutionary pan-African visions of Africa as a region freed from the destructive legacies of its patriarchal and colonial history.
Jennifer Bendery
Texas Governor Signs Law to Stop Teachers from Talking about Racism
23 Jun 2021
Texas mandates that its schools see no racism, hear no racism, and teach nothing about racism, racial oppression or racial capitalism.
Ella Fasslier
Over 100 Anti-Protest Bills Have Been Introduced Since George Floyd Rebellion
23 Jun 2021
The new laws are part of a larger trend of conservative, right-wing efforts at the state level designed to counter the goals of social movements.
Dr. Gerald Horne
BAR Book Forum: Gerald Horne’s Jazz and Justice
23 Jun 2021
He was stunned to ascertain that Europe was less racist toward those like himself in comparison to his homeland;
Sara Flounders and Roger D. Harris
The Case of Alex Saab - US Abduction of Venezuelan Diplomat, a Global Challenge
23 Jun 2021
The case involves the kidnapping of a diplomat by the world’s sole superpower locked in an unequal struggle to destroy the formerly prosperous, oil rich country of Venezuela.
Henry A. Giroux
To End Racial Capitalism, We Will Need to Take On the Institution of Policing
23 Jun 2021
The same activists who are working to defund the police are also part of a collective movement to bring an end to neoliberal capitalism.
Gregory P. Downs
The Hidden History of Juneteenth
23 Jun 2021
“We knowed what was goin’ on in [the war] all the time,” said Felix Haywood, dismissing the notion that his fellow Texas slaves were ignorant of the Emancipation Proclamation.