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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Democrats Exposed By the End of Roe v. Wade
29 Jun 2022
The full extent of Democratic Party treachery was exposed when the Roe v. Wade decision was overturned. Only right wing Americans have any expectation of getting what they want from the electoral…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: Revolution: It’s Not Easy, Quick, or Pretty, Pat Parker, 1980
29 Jun 2022
A 1980 speech by Black lesbian poet and activist Pat Parker provides a feminist, anti-imperialist blueprint for the present.
Erica Caines
Punch Left Move Right: Stacey Abrams and the Democratic Party Shuffle
29 Jun 2022
Stacey Abrams's campaign to become Governor of Georgia features the popular democratic strategy of pretending to be progressive while advocating for right wing issues, such as allocating more money…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Terrible Origins of July 4th
29 Jun 2022
The causes of the July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence are rarely taught in this country. The American colonists chafed under British rules limiting their settlements and feared they would end…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
INTERVIEW: Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer by Jack O’Dell, 1965
22 Jun 2022
A 1965 Freedomways interview with Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer provides an unvarnished and unsentimental portrait of Mississippi – and of the tasks of the Freedom Movement.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Shanté Paradigm Smalls’s “Hip Hop Heresies”
22 Jun 2022
This week’s featured author is Shanté Paradigm Smalls. Smalls is Associate Professor of Black Studies in the Department of English and Faculty in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at St. John’s…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Poor Peoples’ March
22 Jun 2022
Poor Peoples’ March
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Warriors we are…
22 Jun 2022
Warriors we are…
Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign/POOR PEOPLE’S ARMY
The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign & Black Alliance for Peace Center Opposition to War
22 Jun 2022
As groups prepared to gather in Washington D.C. to discuss poverty, the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign and Black Alliance for Peace say that in the spirit of Dr. King, opposition to war…
Sean I. Ahern
Hubert Harrison, Tribune of the People: Part Three, The Struggle for Equality
22 Jun 2022
Hubert Henry Harrison was one of the foremost Black socialist and nationalist thinkers of the early 20th century. He was known as "the father of Harlem radicalism." This is the last of a three-part…