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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Cuba Deserves Nobel Prize for Sharing Medicine With the World
18 Aug 2020
“Cuba should be a shoo-in” to win a Nobel Prize for sending doctors to health trouble spots and poor countries around the globe, said Don Fitz, a scholar and Green Party activ
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
You Can’t Understand Capitalism Without Race
18 Aug 2020
The centrality of race in the development of capitalism continues to be resisted by “the sort of hardline, orthodox folks who only look at class, alongside the sort of liberals and so-called racial
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Reneging on George Floyd Promises: The Minneapolis Police Name-Change Con
13 Aug 2020
When Black Lives Matter chapters demand “abolition” and “defunding” of the police, rather than community control of the cops, they play into the hands of charlatans and misleaders on city councils
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
ESPN Tries to Draft NBA Players Into US Cold War Against China
12 Aug 2020
NBA players and fans alike have many reasons to oppose US provocations, lies and threats.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
NBA Game Changer? “Black Homes Matter”
12 Aug 2020
If the NBA really wants to be a game changer, why not expand "Black Lives Matter" to "Black Homes Matter”?
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
My Wise Country Cousin and Ol’ blak Schmo
12 Aug 2020
I came in de room wit mah head bent low pretendin’ defrenz to Ol’ blak Schmo. Sekrit Servuz say, “Boy, if’n you ain’t in no emediyit dangur
Alene Tchekmedyian
LA’s Gang-Infested Police are Deadly – and Costly
12 Aug 2020
Uniformed thugs calling themselves Vikings, Regulators and Banditos prey on the city’s Black and brown civilians, and even brutalize their fellow cops.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Liam Kofi Brigh
“Racial Capitalism” is the Kind We’ve Got
12 Aug 2020
Theorists of racial capitalism are not interested in the characteristics capitalism could have had in some imagined world, but in the world as it exists.
Jahan Choudhry Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
12 Aug 2020
This week the New Cold War and political prisoners were on your mind.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Richard Kent Evans’ “MOVE: An American Religion”
12 Aug 2020
MOVE’s history is a reminder why police and prison abolition remain so urgent.