African America

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Jay-Z Seeks to Profit from the War Machine
10 Sep 2019
Jay-Z isn’t just trying to make another billion bucks by undermining Colin Kaepernick and the “take a knee” movement, said Louis Jefferson, funder of the San-Jose, California-
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Trump Bombs New Silk Road with Tariffs
05 Sep 2019
The real target of Trump’s trade war is not, primarily, the Chinese, but the U.S.-based corporations that spent the last generation outsourcing manufacturing capacity (jobs) to China.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Kamala Harris is the Face of the Democratic Party’s Protest Campaign against Bernie Sanders
04 Sep 2019
Harris’ candidacy has since day one operated as a protest campaign against Bernie Sanders. “Harris appears to be the elite’s most favored insurance policy.”
Donna Murch
How Race Made the Opioid Crisis
04 Sep 2019
The fundamental division between “dope” and medicine has always been the race and class of users.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
My Wise Country Cousin: de Low-leeta Xpress a Bi-Party-sin Flight
04 Sep 2019
Humph, an’ to think dey made “Birth ob de Nation“ spreadin’ dat filth— dat rotten disinformation— I bet dis what shrinks mean wit dey word, “projekshun?”
Mike Siegel
Dissent Is Being Criminalized Right Under Our Noses
04 Sep 2019
If you painted “Black Lives Matter” on a wall to advocate against police violence, that could be prosecuted as terrorism.
Cheikh Amma Diop
Reality Check: Bank of England Governor Criticizes the Petrodollar!
04 Sep 2019
When a capitalist governor of an imperialist nation’s central bank says alternatives to the US dollar are necessary, big change is afoot.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Paul Ortiz’s “An African American and Latinx History of the United States”
04 Sep 2019
The United States is based on a system of racial capitalism that endures to this day.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tiffany King’s “The Black Shoals”
04 Sep 2019
Black abolition and Native decolonization have the unique capacity to end the “conquistador settler U.S. nation” and make way for something else.
by Louis Jefferson
Anthem 4 Rappers Wrapped in The Flag
04 Sep 2019
Oh Jay Can U C By the dawn of Imperialist greed They will eat u 2 After they fatten u up to deceive U took the bait So they call u great