US Politics

Earl Hazell
Essays on The Cult of White Feminism: Dial M for Bernie
22 Jul 2020
Bernie exposed the white supremacist and imperialist contradictions of white feminism to the disinfecting sunlight of reason.
Carrie Freshour
Poultry and Prisons: Toward a General Strike for Abolition
22 Jul 2020
Poultry-processing plants are critical sites of racial capitalist accumulation produced through an unequal valuation of people and places.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
22 Jul 2020
This week voting in November and the crisis of the Democratic Party was on your mind.
troizel d.l. carr
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
22 Jul 2020
Required reading for black study and abolition: a syllabus for an abolitionista on the run. “Abolition requires an ongoing radical belief in the impossible.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: LaShawn Harris’s “Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners”
22 Jul 2020
Underground labor allowed many women to sustain themselves and the people and religious institutions that they cared about.
The Public Archive
Black Struggle and the New Society: An interview with C.L.R. James
22 Jul 2020
In a 1977 interview, the renowned Trinidadian writer, historian and socialist assessed the state of Black struggle in the Caribbean, the United States and Africa.
Don Fitz
A Statue of Hatuey
22 Jul 2020
Hatuey led the first guerrilla warfare against European invasion of the western hemisphere.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
“This is a Crime Scene:” An African Artist/Activist Journey, Part I
22 Jul 2020
An interview with Dr. Karen Wilson- Ama’Echefu.
Clarence Taylor
Reviving the False Narrative on Police
22 Jul 2020
The antidote to police lawlessness isn’t more training, or fancy equipment, but putting the community in charge of the cops.
Aziz Z. Huq
Bostock v. BLM: Two Conflicting Visions of Equality
22 Jul 2020
One approach treats injustice as discreet individual actions, the other recognizes the weight of world history.