African America

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
The Red Summer of 1919, Explained
14 Aug 2019
White mobs attacked Black neighborhoods in cities across the nation in 1919, but this time Blacks would not “turn the left cheek when smitten upon the right.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
14 Aug 2019
This week we discuss the definition of concentration camps, the armed white right wing, and the criminal justice system. We share your comments for “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Azeezat Johnson, Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Beth Kamunge’s “The Fire Now”
14 Aug 2019
A new book highlights what contemporary prohibitions on Black life look like in various geographical and socio-political spaces.
Matthew Quest
Distinguished Black Scholar Writes Biography of Jefferson for the Age of Trump
14 Aug 2019
In the Age of Trump, it could be said that all interpreters of Jefferson and US History have their own “alternative facts.”
Derecka Purnell
Mass Shootings, Militarism and Policing Are Chapters in the Same Manifesto
14 Aug 2019
White supremacist killers in the U.S. are simply implementing on a local level what their government does across the globe.
Steve Hochstadt
How African American Land Was Stolen in the 20th Century
14 Aug 2019
The US government gave hundreds of millions of acres of land to whites, but failed to give freed slaves 40 acres and a mule or protect Black farmers from massive theft.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 12, 2019
13 Aug 2019
Fight Mass Incarceration Like Our Ancestors Fought Slavery
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Racist US Medical System Kills Black Mothers
13 Aug 2019
“Pervasive racism in the medical profession” is to blame for the fact that three times as many Black mothers die in child-birth as whites,” said Dana-Ain Davis, author of “Rep
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
US Black Peace Delegation Returns from Venezuela
13 Aug 2019
A delegation of the Black Alliance for Peace was honored by the Venezuelan government and citizens for taking part in protecting that nation’s embassy in Washington from takeover by coup plotters.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Fight Mass Incarceration Like Our Ancestors Fought Slavery
13 Aug 2019
“It’s remarkable how much the prison system looks like the institution of slavery,” said Kellie Jackson, author of “Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of