African America

Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Yellow Vests Show the Way
12 Dec 2018
The yellow vests ought to be inspirations for the 99% on this side of the Atlantic ocean. “They will not accept neoliberal plunder without a fight.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Hillary Clinton 2020 is Malcolm X’s American Nightmare on Steroids
12 Dec 2018
Clinton’s reemergence is a dangerous reminder of who she really is: a “too big to fail” parasite of finance capital and the war machine.
John McCullough
ACTION ALERT: CNN Must Rehire Pundit Who Defended Democratic Rights
12 Dec 2018
The Zionist slanders and attempts to impoverish Marc Lamont Hill must be answered by massive, determined action by everyone concerned with democracy.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
12 Dec 2018
Readers shared their opinions on the history of corruption in American political families, the militarism of Bernie Sanders, and Marc Lamont Hill’s reaction to attack from the Israel lobby.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Macarena Gómez-Barris’s “Beyond the Pink Tide“and Harsha Walia’s “Undoing Border Imperialism”
12 Dec 2018
Our authors explore “how to live decolonial thought-action” and imagine a world without borders.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Police Accountability Movement Declares War on Chicago City Council
11 Dec 2018
Veteran activist Frank Chapman says supporters of C-PAC, the proposed Civilian Police Accountability Council, plan to run candidates for every seat on the Chicago board of ald
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Violent Cops are Health Menace
10 Dec 2018
Activists of Critical Resistance won American Public Health Association endorsement of the principle that police violence is a public health issue.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Israel Gets Its Way, Again
10 Dec 2018
Marc Lamont Hill’s firing from CNN for defending the rights of Palestinians is another “step in the direction of no resistance to anything Israel says and does,” said Dr.
Noura Erakat
Marc Lamont Hill and the Legacy of Punishing Black Internationalists
07 Dec 2018
Hill’s bold statement to the UN is part of the internationalist Black radical tradition, exemplified by Paul Robeson, the Black Panther Party, and today’s Black Lives Matter movement.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: Time to De-Colonize Human Rights!
05 Dec 2018
The post-WW II promise of human rights was a compact meant for white people only, but a People-Centered Human Rights framework seeks global liberation and transformation.