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South African Police Unleash Water Cannons and Rubber Bullets During Virus Lockdown
01 Apr 2020
The lockdown included bans on any sales of alcohol and cigarettes and even barred exercises outside the home.
Black Alliance For Peace
Coronavirus, Militarism and the End of an Illusion
25 Mar 2020
People are waking people up to the fact that the US state and government does not belong to them but to a capitalist class that is only looking out for itself.
Mark P. Fancher
Calm Down About Coronavirus and Follow Africa’s Lead
18 Mar 2020
Europe – not Africa – is the current epicenter of the disease.
Mike Davis
COVID-19: The Monster is at the Door
18 Mar 2020
The danger to the global poor has been almost totally ignored by journalists and Western governments.
Joy James
Teaching Theory, Talking Community
04 Mar 2020
For centuries, Indigenous and African peoples in the Americas have theorized for their lives and so collectively crafted a revolutionary praxis.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Elizabeth Foster’s book, “African Catholic”
04 Mar 2020
The decolonization of Africa, and the determined activism of prominent African Catholics, played an important role in diversifying the church.
R. Divya Nair
The Gift of India and the Violence of the West
04 Mar 2020
Five centuries ago, Europeans set about subjugating the non-“white” peoples of the world, and they are still at it.
Margaret Eby
The Difference Between Yams and Sweet Potatoes Is Structural Racism
04 Mar 2020
The confusion goes all the way back to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. “Most American supermarkets are selling you sweet potatoes, not yams.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Marc Ross’s “Slavery in the North”
26 Feb 2020
The roots of racial differences have to do with the past treatment of enslaved people in the North as well as the South.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The Shocking Death of Rwandan Gospel Singer and Dissident Kizito Mihigo
19 Feb 2020
I would like to say that President Kagame has finally gone too far, that the powerful industrial nations will finally stop running cover for his crimes, but that would greatly surprise me.