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Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
How the Democratic Party Strangled Black Politics
13 Jun 2019
Nothing changes on the electoral scene, and little at the grassroots level, unless the structure of capitalist hegemony over political discourse in the U.S. -- the corporate duopoly -- is broken.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Torture of Assange Is Public Policy in U.S. Prisons
12 Jun 2019
The psychological torture imposed on Julian Assange is not unlike the decades of torture imposed upon Black political prisoners in the US.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
UN Rapporteur on Torture Says Assange Could Die in Prison
12 Jun 2019
Julian Assange has been moved to Belmarsh Prison hospital and the UN Rapporteur on Torture has warned that he could die there.
Patrick D. Anderson
Some Critics Argue that the Internal Colony Theory is Outdated. Here’s Why They’re Wrong
12 Jun 2019
The internal neocolonialism thesis is not “race-centric” but anti-colonial, and explains Black elite behavior.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Therí Pickens’s “Black Madness :: Mad Blackness”
12 Jun 2019
This book is dedicated to the Black mad and the mad Black everywhere.
Pascal Robert
“The Black Godfather”: Clarence Avant and the Ruling Class Use of Black Pop Culture
12 Jun 2019
Clarence Avant mastered pimping out Black identity to normalize the functioning of a nation premised on the oppression of his fellow Black citizens.
Garrett Felber
Black Nationalism and Liberation
12 Jun 2019
We would be better served by understanding black nationalism as both liberative and anti-racist.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Two Faces of the Black Church
10 Jun 2019
The Black Church spawned militant resistance to white supremacy as well as a politics of accommodation to white rule.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Lives Matter Founder Launches Huge Project to Shrink Black Lives
06 Jun 2019
Alicia Garza and her crew conducted what they claim is the biggest survey of Black political opinion ever -- but failed to ask a single question about foreign policy.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: How to Protest Trump
05 Jun 2019
If the British really oppose Trump’s policies they should dump their own government, which backs Washington to the hilt – and then they should apologize to the world for Britain’s crimes.