African America

Norman Richmond
Black August, George Jackson and Marcus Garvey
01 Aug 2017
August is a politically charged month in the Black world: the month Marcus Garvey was born and when Black Panther George Jackson and his younger brother, Jonathan, were killed. George Jackson and…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 24, 2017
25 Jul 2017
Black Elites, and Many Black Voters, Supported Mass Black Incarceration Historian, author and activist Paul Street has high praise for James Forman Jr.’s new book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Women in the Killing Fields
20 Jul 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford A white woman from Australia was gunned down by militarized police in Minneapolis – part of the collateral damage that flows from the U.S. mass Black incarceration…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Jay-Z and the Rest of his Class Belong in the Dustbin of History
19 Jul 2017
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong Jay-Z’s album 4:44 confirms his deep loyalty to the capitalist system and profound disdain for the people that buy his records. He is a parasitic preacher of I-…
Paul Street
The Abandonment: Reflections on James Foreman’s "Locking Up Our Own"
19 Jul 2017
by Paul Street James Forman’s new book is indispensable “for those who want to get the whole story on the rise of the “the New Jim Crow.” The Black middle and upper classes, which have been largely…
Seeking Reparations by Dropping Slave Claims
18 Jul 2017
In 2006, a federal court ruled that the descendants of Black slaves in the U.S. have no “standing” to sue for reparations. However, Dr. Jahi Issa and Reggie Mabry say they have devised a new legal…
50 Years Later, Newark and Detroit Still Feel Tremors from 1967 Rebellions
18 Jul 2017
by Todd Burroughs The shock of the two largest Black rebellions of 1967 caused President Lyndon Johnson to assign the Kerner Commission to study race relations in the U.S. However, the commission’s…
Resurrecting the Radical Pedagogy of the Black Panther Party
18 Jul 2017
by Christopher F. Petrella The Black Panther Party for Self Defense was deeply engaged in “education for liberation.” The party’s Intercommunal Youth Institute served children in East Oakland until…
Mississippi Autoworkers Mobilize
18 Jul 2017
by Michelle Chen Union sentiment is rising at the Nissan auto plant in Canton, Mississippi, where the mostly Black workforce has experienced “increasingly unstable working conditions and general…
Jahi Issa
Reparations is Dead: How to Resurrect It
12 Jul 2017
by Dr. Jahi Issa and Reggie Mabry The moral case for Black reparations has effectively been made, but the legal argument has met much frustration in the courts. The authors believe that the period…