African America

Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Liberalism Still the Left Flank of Oppression in the Coming Post-Obama World
08 Jul 2015
by Danny Haiphong It is already clear that the buzz words gay rights and the Confederate flag “will be used by the powerful to move as many disaffected people toward the Democratic Party as possible…
Benjamin Woods
Six Lessons #BlackLivesMatter Can Learn From Amilcar Cabral
08 Jul 2015
by Benjamin Woods The emergent Black Lives Matter mobilization is nearing the juncture where it will grow into a true mass movement for liberation, or take some other fork in the road.…
Mark P. Fancher
Dr. Che Guevara’s Prescription for Africa’s AFRICOM Headache
08 Jul 2015
by Mark P. Fancher With the United States military command in the lead, “western troops and advisors continue their forward march across African.” But continental liberation is still possible: it…
Filmon Zerai
An Eritrean in Mississippi: The Importance of Black Diaspora-Eritrea Solidarity
08 Jul 2015
The work of a Black lawyer named Lumumba from Detroit drew a young man from Eritrea to Jackson, Mississippi, last year.
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 6, 2015
07 Jul 2015
Shut Down the Prisons from the Inside Prison inmates with the Free Alabama Movement have been placed in solitary confinement for advocating a national prison work strike. “Their argument is that all…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Gay Still Isn’t the New Black
01 Jul 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If “gay is the new Black,” then it would follow that gays would now be dedicating their collective lives to the struggle against mass Black…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
No ‘Je Suis Charleston’?: The De-Politicization of Black Oppression
01 Jul 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Where was the worldwide revulsion at the racist terror attack in Charleston? “Obama sang ‘Amazing Grace’ and lulled into a stupefying silence black voices…
Paul Street
How Poor Black Lives Matter to U.S. Capitalism Today: Reflections on “The New Jim Crow”
01 Jul 2015
by Paul Street The U.S. mass incarceration regime measures Black lives by the value that can be derived from their imprisonment. “The ‘new Jim Crow’ is about disciplining a deindustrialized Black…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Capitalism and Racism are About Who Rules: Analyzing Power in the Here and Now
01 Jul 2015
by Danny Haiphong “Even if the second flag of white rule (the ‘American’ flag being the first) eventually comes down, the racist system that produced the Confederacy remains upright.” Symbolism is…
Thomas Ruffin Jr.
President Obama is a Traitor to the Black Race: An Open Letter
01 Jul 2015
by Thomas Ruffin, Jr. The First Black U.S. President perpetuates the modern-day slavery of mass Black incarceration; “espouses, like Rush Limbaugh, an allegiance to ‘American exceptionalism;’”…