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Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Blue Plague and Black Death
27 May 2020
George Floyd’s death by Blue Plague in Minneapolis was widely condemned by the same parties that have encouraged and funded the spread of the fatal contagion.
Shim Award Committee
BAR Editors Receive Serena Shim Award
27 May 2020
Black Agenda Report editors Glen Ford, Margaret Kimberley, and Danny Haiphong are recipients of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromising Integrity in Journalism.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rwanda: “Victoire Ingabire Should Be Arrested at Least, Killed at Best”
27 May 2020
The life of the woman who leads Rwanda’s most prominent opposition to Paul Kagame’s dictatorship is being publicly threatened in the wake of the killing of many of her supporters.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
For Breonna Taylor (And my Bry)
27 May 2020
How I wish I could sing her name like Brother Ray or ‘Ree— ‘Cause Breonna Taylor’s real close to Bryana Turner to me
Black Alliance For Peace
On African Liberation Day, the Black Alliance for Peace Demands U.S. Shut Down AFRICOM
27 May 2020
The US Military Command in Africa allows Washington and its European allies to dominate the continent and its resources.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
27 May 2020
Recently, readers have been discussing democratic socialists, American exceptionalism, and identity politics.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Vincent Brown’s “Tacky’s Revolt”
27 May 2020
The Jamaican slave revolt of 1760-1761 was one war within an interlinked network of other wars.
The Public Archive
Haiti’s Revolutions and Revisions: An Interview with Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg
27 May 2020
Toussaint stressed that freedom was something that had to be fought for and taken from below by the masses themselves.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 25, 2020
26 May 2020
Black Is Back Coalition’s “Ballot and the Bulllet” Electoral School
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Lasting Legacy of Combahee River Collective Statement
26 May 2020
In 1977 a group of Black feminists issued a statement that “has been a kind of touchstone over the decades for women who are thinking about women’s issues through the intersectional lens of racism,