US Politics

Brent Cebul
Tearing Down Black America
29 Jul 2020
More than half the 1.2 million Americans displaced by “urban renewal” were Black.
Joy James
Airbrushing Revolution for the Sake of Abolition
29 Jul 2020
“Interest convergence” and “pragmatic compromise” are euphemisms for what might better be called opportunism and truth-avoidance.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
29 Jul 2020
This week cutting through the corporate media buzz on US fascism was on your minds.
Anima Adjepong
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
29 Jul 2020
The lesson is to remain woke, because not all abolitionists share the goal of Black liberation.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Erika Edwards’s “Hiding in Plain Sight”
29 Jul 2020
Anti-blackness manifests as black invisibility in Argentina, a society that was determined to marginalize and discriminate against Black women.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
“This is the Scene of a Crime”: An African Artist/Activist Journey, Part II
29 Jul 2020
An interview with Dr. Karen Wilson- Ama’Echefu.
Will Guzman
Oh Boya: If It’s Goya, It Has To Be No Good
29 Jul 2020
Goya’s CEO thinks Trump is a “blessing,” so the brand has been cursed with a boycott.
Belinda Davis
The Poor People’s Economic and Human Right Campaign: a Case for How Change Works
29 Jul 2020
With no well-financed publicity department and no links to the machinery of big party politics, movements like PPEHRC can sometimes seem lost in plain sight.
Jean Jores Pierre
PetroCaribe and Haiti’s Lost Opportunities
29 Jul 2020
The US puppets that run Haiti have squandered an historic opportunity for economic and social development.
David Bacon
San Quentin Death Sentence
29 Jul 2020
Prisoners’ supporters and loved ones demanded release of half the population and no transfers between prisons or to ICE.