African America

Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Kamala Harris: The Fix is In
20 Feb 2019
Harris’ own father called her out for identity politics and stereotyping Jamaicans, but the corporate Democrats are betting she can derail Bernie Sanders with Black voters.
An interview with Kali Akuno
“It’s Eco-Socialism or Death”
20 Feb 2019
Cooperation Jackson leader Kali Akuno on the Green New Deal, the need for mass civil disobedience, and the necessity of building an internationalist movement for eco-socialism.
Black Alliance For Peace
As U.S. Intervention Germinates in Venezuela, We Must Not Forget the Implications for Haiti
20 Feb 2019
Haitians and Venezuelans are united by history and common struggle against the US behemoth that seeks to enslave the rest of the hemisphere.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
20 Feb 2019
This week’s column discusses the Bernie Sanders campaign, Medicare for All, and white supremacy in Venezuela.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ashon Crawley’s “Blackpentecostal Breath”
20 Feb 2019
The book is a meditation on a way of life that is joyous and abundant without ever asserting that we must all convert to Pentecostalism.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Roderick Ferguson’s “One-Dimensional Queer”
20 Feb 2019
Gay liberation didn’t originate as a single-issue movement, and must confront neoliberalism and gentrification as well as anti-queer violence.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Abolition Spotlight Editor
BAR Abolition Spotlight: Diana Block
20 Feb 2019
Society needs prison abolition in order to heal, but people living in prison need basic humane conditions in order to survive.”
Paul Street
Buried Alive: The Story of Police State Racism in Chicago
20 Feb 2019
Chicago media care more about the safety of a killer cop and the Jesse Smollett saga than victims of the city’s rabidly racist police.
George Joseph and Debbie Nathan
Prisons Are Building Databases of Incarcerated People’s Voice Prints
20 Feb 2019
Hundreds of thousands of inmates’ voices have been imprinted, potentially ensnaring millions of family members, friends and supporters in the huge surveillance net.
Patrick Walker
Venezuelan Coup Democrats Vomit on Green New Deal
20 Feb 2019
For our bought-off Republican and Democrat warmongers, humanity’s climate crisis changes nothing and US regime change remains the order of the day.