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Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
mashing the state— Kristallnacht-style
20 Jan 2021
Kristallnacht came casting lead ballots, overthrowing Black elected officials and Massacring those that VOTED for them— Wilmington, North Carolina, 1898;
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Will COVID-19 Contact Tracing Expand State Surveillance?
06 Jan 2021
The US remains wholly incapable of tracing Covid-19 contagion, but if it tried, we might wind up with “the worst of both worlds” – a horror of coercion and confusion that still failed to stop the e
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Think…
06 Jan 2021
Think of peoples having the most tanks, the most drones, the most missiles, bombs, aircraft carriers, guns, ammo and night vision goggles
BAR Comments Editor Jahan Choudhry
Letters from Our Readers
06 Jan 2021
This week the Black Misleadership Class, sexual violence and colonialism, and the crisis of US imperialism were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Khary Polk’s “Contagions of Empire”
06 Jan 2021
Black and brown volunteers were considered both “essential” and “dispensable” in past disease-ridden US conflicts, just as they are in today’s Covid crisis.
Akilah Johnson and Nina Martin
How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men
06 Jan 2021
To understand why COVID-19 killed so many young Black men, you need to know the legend of John Henry. “Covid-19 is a new gear in an old machine.”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 28, 2020
29 Dec 2020
South African Police More Lethal Than US Cops
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Capitalism + Covid-19 = Mass Death in US
29 Dec 2020
“The US health system has failed utterly and completely to protect the people” in this country, said veteran activist Sara Flounders, co-editor with Lee Siu Hin of the new, 50-writ
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
$election postmortem
10 Dec 2020
It was the Latino Vote… No, it was the Latinix vote! No, it was Black Women! No, it was LGBTQ+ Black Women! No, it was Red State Soccer Moms!
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Shiloh Krupar’s “Hot Spotter’s Report”
10 Dec 2020
The U.S. military claims it is “green,” but what the Pentagon is really trying to prove is the planetary sustainability of war.