African America

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ralina Joseph’s “Postracial Resistance”
10 Jul 2019
“Code speaking” in the presence of Power can be strategic, but it is also fraught with perils for Black folk.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ashanté Reese’s “Black Food Geographies”
10 Jul 2019
“Deserts are natural phenomena, but the lack of food services in Black communities is a systemic, man-made evil.
Marjorie Cohn
Kamala Harris Has a Distinguished Career of Serving Injustice
10 Jul 2019
Harris favored criminalizing truancy, raising cash bail fees and keeping prisoners locked up for cheap labor.
Martino Mazzonis
What Bronx’s “Decade of Fire” Teaches Us About Housing Racism in America Today
10 Jul 2019
Between 1968 and the end of the ‘70s, the Bronx was the scene of thousands of fires.
Paul Prescod
Defend the Post Office, Defend Black Workers
10 Jul 2019
The history of black postal workers demonstrates the critical importance of government employment and a robust public sector.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 8, 2019
09 Jul 2019
Bruce Dixon “a Real Soldier” of the Movement
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia Says He’s Going Blind
09 Jul 2019
The nation’s best known political prisoner recently noticed “that I could no longer see a single face” among the “river of men passing by” in Pennsylvania’s Mahanoy prison.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
All US White Groups are Implicated in Slavery and Black Oppression
09 Jul 2019
Katrina Browne, a descendant of Rhode Islanders who were the “largest slave-trading family in US history,” told a congressional committee considering the HR 40 reparations study bi
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Race to the Bottom is Imperial Plan
09 Jul 2019
“The decline in US living standards and economic security is not a side effect of globalization – it is the intended effect of this global regime that is being imposed,” said BAR executive editor…
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Banks are King of the Imperial Order
09 Jul 2019
BAR contributor Danny Haiphong told the Left Forum that “anti-imperialism is the only antidote” for US-led global austerity.