African America

Ed Pilkington
Chuck Sims Africa Freed: Final Jailed Move 9 Member Released From Prison
12 Feb 2020
The last of Philadelphia’s most besieged, and heroic, Black political families is released, after a 42-year ordeal.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Kobe, Impeachment and the Coronavirus: A Study on the Dangers of White Liberal Fragility
12 Feb 2020
White liberalism is not a kinder, gentler form of white supremacy, or a lesser evil to the more explicit racism of Trump and his base.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Lives Over Luxury: The Poor People’s Army Plans to March on the DNC
12 Feb 2020
The founder of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign invites everyone to join them in a march against the DNC if it steals the presidential nomination.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Rush to judgement?
12 Feb 2020
Ain’t it good to know that up’s still down; bad’s still good; black’s white; Slavers still heroes—And the Drone Ranger received a Peace Prize?
Walter Johnson
American Bottom
12 Feb 2020
One of the poorest towns in the nation, nearly all-Black Centreville, Illinois, floods with raw sewage every time it rains.
Adofo Minka
Prison Reform and the State: The Impending Confrontation in Mississippi
12 Feb 2020
The recent prison reform rallies at the Mississippi Capitol were more akin to being for a Middle Passage with more efficient plumbing.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
12 Feb 2020
This week you discussed Venezuela, racism in healthcare, and regime change in Libya.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jeff Ferrell’s “Drift”
12 Feb 2020
Late stage capitalism and its wars have imposed a permanent state of dislocation and disorientation on much of humanity, the “drift” of an unstable system.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Aishah Shahidah Simmons’ “Love WITH Accountability”
12 Feb 2020
Simmons explores ways we can hold harm-doers accountable without getting involved with the very state that brutalizes Black and other communities of color.
Solomon Comissiong
The Democratic Party's Theatrical Performances: Fooling Black Voters for Decades
12 Feb 2020
The Democrats are terrible at passing legislation that helps Black and poor people but fantastically talented at political theater.