African America

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Keisha Blain’s Set the World on Fire
23 May 2018
“It is impossible to understand, or even fully appreciate, how black women have shaped national and global politics today without knowing the larger history.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ M Archive
23 May 2018
“This moment we are living through has infinite possibilities, and not all of those possibilities include the existence of humans.”
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Free the MOVE 9
22 May 2018
Mike Africa Jr, the son of two MOVE 9 members imprisoned for the past four decades in a the death of a Philadelphia policeman, said supporters have stepped up efforts to free the i
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The People Versus Whirlpool in Benton Harbor
22 May 2018
The giant Whirlpool Corporation, which has long dominated the politics of 90 percent Black Benton Harbor, Michigan, “has not paid taxes” to the city for years, said Rev.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Black Support for the Police State
16 May 2018
“If having black faces in high and not so high places doesn’t save our lives why should we support them at all?”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
What does Kanye West Have to do with the Jobless Rate? A Lot
16 May 2018
“Kanye West merely represents what happens when the Black misleadership class begins to reflect the crisis of the US system.”
Black Alliance For Peace
Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza
16 May 2018
“The systematic violence could not have occurred without the ongoing support from the U.S.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Spill
16 May 2018
“Spill is about freeing up our imaginations and our bodies for a world we deserve and yet don’t know how to narrate.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power
16 May 2018
“All of the women in the book envisioned new and expansive visions of black liberation.”
Tryon P. Woods
“Stand Your Ground”: Siwatu-Salama Ra and Black Self-Defense, Part 2
16 May 2018
“In a slaveholding society such as ours, even after the formal institution of chattel slavery has ended, each and every legal principle ultimately expresses the foundational antagonism