African America

Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Purity Over Principle: The Left's State of Purgatory
26 Apr 2017
by Danny Haiphong It is difficult to speak of a “left” in the U.S., given the inability of people who call themselves leftists “to lend critical support to oppressed nations under siege” – the sacred…
A New Agenda in Jackson, Mississippi
26 Apr 2017
by Sarah Jaffe Chokwe Antar Lumumba wants to finish the work his father began as mayor of Mississippi’s capital city. “No longer should we just buy someone’s agenda, listen to how they are going to…
From Colonialism to Trumpism: Remembering Aimé Césaire
26 Apr 2017
by Abraham Ramirez Americans and Europeans speak of the drift towards fascism, as if the empires they have built on the tombs of the non-white peoples were not the incubators of Hitlers -- and…
I Feel Blessed to Have Encountered Darcus Howe
26 Apr 2017
by Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali Darcus Howe, the Trinidad-born nephew of C.L.R. James, touched many lives. A member of the British Black Panthers and an organizer of street protests in London,…
Ajamu Nangwaya
Caribbean Reparations Movement Must Put Capitalism on Trial
19 Apr 2017
by Ajamu Nangwaya The English-speaking Caribbean is seeking reparations for slavery from the colonial powers. But why stop there? “If we are going to throw the book at capitalism for chattel slavery…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 17, 2017
18 Apr 2017
Black leftists, including former Black Panthers, can serve the people either as Democrats or independent of the corporate parties. “I did both,” said New York State Assemblyman Charles Barron,…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
The Community Had a Duty to Shut Down the Montgomery County Hearing on the Bethesda African Burial Ground
12 Apr 2017
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo Black community members attempting to preserve an ancestral burial ground charge they were “deceived, misled and ambushed” by officials in suburban…
Deportation of African and Other Black Immigrants Is Quietly Increasing And No One Is Taking Note
12 Apr 2017
by David Love “Fully one-third of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers are African” – the fastest growing immigrant group -- and deportations of Black immigrants are expected to soar under Trump…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
MLK and Obama: Two Diametrically Opposed Legacies
05 Apr 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Dr. King spoke of the Triple Evils: racism, militarism and materialism – “meaning, in contemporary society, capitalism.” However, “the decisive blow to the Black…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Black Misleaders Act Like Republicans
05 Apr 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Black politics in Baltimore has sunk to the very bottom of the sewer, with mayor Catherine Pugh’s veto of a rise in the minimum wage. “Black…