African America

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Blacks and Latinos Face Global South” Conditions in US
15 Jan 2019
Black and Latino workers in the US are more favorable to unions because they “are most like workers in the Global South,” where workers are super-exploited, said Michael Yates, the
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
New Cold War Crazier Than the Old One
14 Jan 2019
“The peril of this new Cold War is especially great,” said Russia expert Stephen Cohen, “because even when Trump does something sensible with Russia on behalf of our national secur
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Ocasio-Cortez, Socialism, War and Austerity
10 Jan 2019
It’s good that there are now plenty of young people that like the idea of socialism. But if they don’t really know what socialism is, they also don’t know what capitalists will do to resist it.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Phony Resistance Can’t Beat Trump
09 Jan 2019
At the midway point of the Trump presidency the Democrats have nothing to show in the way of meaningful resistance.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
A Not So Happy New Year: Tears Flow from the War Hawks Over the Political Crisis of US imperialism
09 Jan 2019
The US war machine can no longer provide its corporate masters the neo-colonial stability they need to reap long-term gain from the imperial order.
Paul Buchheit
By the Best Definition, the Poverty Rate Should Be Tripled
09 Jan 2019
If measured by 1960s yardsticks, today’s US poverty rates are three times higher than officially recognized.
Roy S. Johnson
Angela Davis “Stunned” at Award Revocation, But Still Coming to Birmingham
09 Jan 2019
Davis joins a long list of scholars and activists who have been censored in efforts to silence debate on Israeli apartheid.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Eunsong Kim’s “gospel of regicide”and Juno Salazar Parreñas’ “Decolonizing Extinction”
09 Jan 2019
Our authors contemplate the “antiblack horizon” in Asian American imaginaries, and orangutans’ relationship to colonialism and white supremacy.
R. Divya Nair
The Influence Of Gandhian Socialism on Du Bois and King
09 Jan 2019
Two great icons of 20th century Black struggle found a valuable resource in Gandhi and his movement for national liberation.
Teodrose Fikre
The Diversity Hustle
09 Jan 2019
A merry-go-round that has different colors and genders of jackasses and elephants is pure deception.