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Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia to Speak in Philadelphia on Global Youth Against Empire
19 Nov 2019
The nation’s best known political prisoner will mark his 38th year behind bars at a “Youth Rise Up Against Empire” event, December 7th in Philadelphia.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Obama Condemns “Call Out Culture” Despite Being Its Biggest Beneficiary
13 Nov 2019
Obama’s cynical analysis of youth activism was yet another dog whistle to the wealthiest and most conservative sections of white America.
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Mentors and me
13 Nov 2019
Standing out in the cold shivering, shoveling white bean soup in my mouth, A mentor appears, two assistants in tow. Mind butcher shop sharp with a
Adofo Minka
Policing Lumumba’s Jackson: Surveillance and Credible Messengers in the Most Radical City
13 Nov 2019
Mayor Lumumba’s unabashed support of police demonstrates that his administration lacks the political courage and will to chart a new course.
Jason Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
13 Nov 2019
This week Black voters and the Democrats, the passing of John Conyers, and the alleged demise of Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi were on your minds. We share your letters for “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Walter Mignolo and Catherine Walsh’s “On Decoloniality”
13 Nov 2019
The dominant conceptions and ideals of Western civilization aim to violate, destroy, and eliminate all that obstructs and impedes its path.
Boké Saisi
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
13 Nov 2019
Black class relations explicated, Moynihan debunked, slave life explored, prison abolition made conceivable – all this is teachable.
James Campbell and Mark Solomon
Jack O’Dell – A Life in Struggle (August 11, 1923 – October 31, 2019)
13 Nov 2019
Odell’s effectiveness and fidelity to principle is affirmed by the ferocity of Hoover’s redbaiting smears.
Ethan Johnson
On Death and Dying as a Black Studies Professor at Portland State University
13 Nov 2019
In celebration of Black Study’s 50th year in existence at Portland State, we also get to watch its death.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Dems and Repubs are Moneypots, Not Real Political Parties
12 Nov 2019
If the Democrats were a real, mass based party, they would never consider Joe Biden as their nominee because he has no support among the people that energize parties: the youth.