African America

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Bandit Baltimore Cops and the Black Misleadershp Class
15 Feb 2018
“The nominally Black-controlled local government is incapable of meaningful response.”
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
On the Black Panther Movie and the Limits of Our Imagination
15 Feb 2018
"...comics and sci fi brought to us by capitalist corporate media fail to imagine what a better world, or even the struggle to get there might look like"
Aziz Rana
Black Liberation Means Rejection of National Security (State) Citizenship
14 Feb 2018
“Oppressed communities have to articulate their own independent foreign policy grounded above all in the interests of other marginalized groups.”
Illinois Deaths in Custody Project
Making Visible the Lives and Deaths of People in Custody
14 Feb 2018
“Poor people should not be confined in a death machine.”
Keith “Comrade Malik” Washington
Criminalizing “Panther Love” and the New Wave COINTELPRO Tactics in Texas Prisons
14 Feb 2018
“I represent a new generation of freedom fighters who have learned from the mistakes of our fallen ancestors.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Lives Matter in the Public Schools
13 Feb 2018
Teachers in public schools around the country held a “Black Lives Matter Week of Action,” last week, demanding an end to “zero tolerance” student disciplinary policies, the hiring of more Black tea
Martin De Bourmont
Is a Court Case in Texas the First Prosecution of a “Black Identity Extremist”?
07 Feb 2018
“Daniels’s arrest poses the even more troubling possibility that his case could be just the first of many.”
Greg Godels
Scandalize my Name… New York Review of Books Slimes Paul Robeson
07 Feb 2018
“To fail to acknowledge the fact that Robeson and his work were virtually unknown, were erased by the thought police, underscores Callow’s unfitness to discuss
Garrett Epps
The 'Slave Power' Behind Florida's Felon Disenfranchisement
07 Feb 2018
“Of those Americans who have completed all their punishments but still cannot vote, 48 percent live in the Sunshine State.”
Jacob Sugarman
What Students Are Taught About Slavery
07 Feb 2018
“Nearly half of the teachers failed to teach their students that protections for slavery were enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.”