Related Stories
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The war against Africans intensifies, the puppets and stooges do as they are ordered, while others are satisfied with empty gestures.
Gus Griffin
Whether Super Bowl quarterbacks, or presidents, or police chiefs, unquestioned admiration of the "first Black" should come to an end.
Too Black
The allure of Black representation in high places can be very dangerous.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Black politicians may be openly conservative or pretend leftists but their constituents rarely get what they need.
More Stories
- Janvieve Williams ComrieFrom ICE courtroom ambushes to sheriffs' execution threats, America's domestic repression now openly wields the tools it honed in overthrowing foreign governments.
- Terri FrickHomelessness isn’t policy failure—it’s policy. From 19th-century British 'clearings' to today’s police sweeps and Blackstone evictions, the playbook stays the same: displace the poor, privatize the…
- Jermain Ostiana , Kerry SinananTo honor Kwame Ture is to condemn Zionism. Yet the lecture bearing his name platformed a speaker who calls anti-Zionism 'hate', erasing Ture’s clarity that Palestine’s liberation is inseparable from…
- Black Alliance For PeaceDecades of U.S. military aid and Israeli occupation created the conditions for the attack on Iran in an unbroken chain of imperial violence.
- Community Movement Builders - NewarkWhen oppression becomes unbearable, resistance erupts. The uprising at Delaney Hall exposes the brutality of immigrant detention and the power of collective defiance.