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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Creating Ownership, Equity and Income for College Athletes
25 Aug 2020
“College sports is a highly exploitive system where predominantly Black players in football and basketball generate all the income, but the only group that isn’t positively impacted is the families
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Free All Political Prisoners – and Say Their Names!
19 Aug 2020
It is righteous and correct to say the names of victims of police violence, but we must also “Say the names!” of our living political prisoners.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: “Feet to the Fire” and Other Lies
19 Aug 2020
When the Democratic Party ends its charade of a primary process and spits out the person most closely aligned with neo-liberal policies, the gas lighting begins.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Trump is Wrong, Joe Biden is not the “Radical Left.” He is an Enemy of Humanity
19 Aug 2020
Both candidates are jockeying for who can best gaslight the U.S. public into remaining loyal to one side of the two-party corporate duopoly or the other.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Biden’s Philly Headquarters Rents a Fence to Stop the Poor People’s Army
19 Aug 2020
Cheri Honkala tells Ann Garrison that the Biden campaign headquarters threw up a rent-a-fence when they heard the Poor People’s Army was coming.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Beirut BOOM
19 Aug 2020
A big BOOM— 27,000 tons of ammonium nitrate… chemical compound for agricultural Fertilizer… ‘stored’ 6 years at the port of Beirut 220 dead 5,000 injured
Paul Street
Kopmala’s Padlocks and the Games Politicians Play
19 Aug 2020
The Big Business-backed Harris earned a reputation as a friend of the police and an agent of racially disparate mass incarceration.
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights
19 Aug 2020
Anti-Blackness and antiradicalism function as the legitimating architecture of modern U.S. racial capitalism.
Jahan Choudhry Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
19 Aug 2020
This week protests in Portland and Racial Capitalism were on your minds.
Semassa Boko
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
19 Aug 2020
Our theorizing must take on the dynamic, fugitive, and excessive aesthetics of black practice and performance.