Africa

Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Preachin’ to the Choir (for Joe, Linda, Tim…)
26 May 2021
2020’s hindsight—frost in the rearview mirror. Miles Ahead… I’m Sheltered in Solidarity with National Poetry Month and Jazz Appreciation Month— April in Boston—warm cider
Dr. Gerald Horne
Against Left-Wing White Nationalism
26 May 2021
Much of what is called the “left” still insists that the American “revolution” of 1776 is “unfinished,” when history shows that white supremacy was the intended result.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Michael Rothberg’s “The Implicated Subject”
26 May 2021
Most people contribute to injustice not as direct perpetrators but as indirect participants who enable, perpetuate, benefit from, and inherit histories of violence and contemporary systems of explo
C. Riley Snorton
BAR Book Forum: C. Riley Snorton’s “Black on Both Sides”
26 May 2021
The inhabitation of the un-gender-specific and “fungible” also mapped the affective grounds for imagining other qualities of life and being for those marked by and for captivity.
Jon Jeter
Silent for 20 Years, an Ex-NBA Player Erupts in a Cogent Critique of Anti-Black Media
26 May 2021
The corporate sports media practices a kind of settler state “Orientalism,” blaming black players for the ills of an industry owned by rich white men.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The Hoops and the Hype: Basketball Africa League Debuts in Rwanda
19 May 2021
The decision to debut the Basketball Africa League in Rwanda is a huge public relations coup for totalitarian, war criminal, and US military partner Paul Kagame, writes Ann Garrison.
US Out of Africa Network
BAP US Out of Africa Network Statement On the Latest Zionist Genocidal Assault in Palestinian
19 May 2021
The ongoing Nakba is only possible because of the Pan-European white supremacist and imperial support for the crimes of the Zionist entity.
Annie Olaloku-Teriba
Afro-Pessimism and the (Un)Logic of Anti-Blackness
19 May 2021
Entrenched in anti-racist theory and practice today is the belief that all racial and ethnic domination is structured around a global hierarchy, with “white” people at the top and “black” people at
New African Institute
Disinformation in Tigray: Manufacturing Consent For a Secessionist War
19 May 2021
Corporate media in the imperial countries have spread disinformation on the real nature of the fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray state.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Open Letter to Superstar Rapper J. Cole about Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
12 May 2021
Dear Mr. Cole: