African America

Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
05 Jun 2019
This week you wanted to talk about Joe Biden’s presidential run, the National Lawyers Guild, Julian Assange, and Israeli apartheid. Strong comments came for “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jennifer Nash’s “Black Feminism Reimagined”
05 Jun 2019
Black women are still regularly ignored by the very political projects that celebrate us.
Carl Davidson
Book Review: Bringing Police Torture in Chicago to the Full Light of Day
05 Jun 2019
A new book reveals Chicago as a racist police state where the entire criminal justice system was complicit in torture.
Ellen Brown
The Bankers’ “Power Revolution” -- How the Government Got Shackled by Debt
05 Jun 2019
There is no reason for the government to borrow trillions from capitalists – except to enrich the financial classes and enforce austerity.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Joe Biden, Prince of Prisons
04 Jun 2019
"Biden was a sponsor and in many cases the primary architect of every significant federal bill that exacerbated mass incarceration."
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of June 3, 2019
04 Jun 2019
The community organizes a response to the FBI's latest spurious categorical excuse for surveillance and repression, the so-called "Black Identity Extremists."
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Countering the FBI’s “Black Identity Extremist” Offensive – Part Two
03 Jun 2019
The Black Identity Extremist Abolition Collective. In Part Two: King Downing, Johanna Fernandez and Mumia Abu Jamal.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Countering the FBI’s “Black Identity Extremist” Offensive – Part One
03 Jun 2019
The Black Identity Extremist Abolition Collective. In Part One: Ajamu Sankofa, Myaisha Hayes and Aya Saed.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
We Can't Have A Party of Our Own Because Poor People Can't Be Trusted?
01 Jun 2019
We can’t afford a new party. More specifically poor people cannot have a new party.
Walter Johnson
To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice
29 May 2019
The history of racial capitalism is a history of wages as well as whips, of factories as well as plantations, of whiteness as well as blackness, of “freedom” as well as slavery.