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Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
16 Sep 2020
This week Ibram X. Kendi, Toussaint Louverture, community control of the police, and the trial of Julian Assange were on your minds.
Nada Mustafa Ali
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
16 Sep 2020
Students of all ages can share the experiences of women from the slum margins of Nairobi and young female shapeshifters at a Detroit homeless shelter.
Julian Vigo
Water Poverty and the Growing Conflict between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia
16 Sep 2020
The Ethiopian government made a strategic decision to control most of the Nile River that flows into Egypt and Sudan.
William C. Anderson
Ungovernable: An Interview with Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin
16 Sep 2020
Black anarchists organized around the things that we still see happening today: mass imprisonment of Black people and murderous shootings by the police or fascist vigilantes.
Vijay Prashad
Multinationals and Oil Companies Are Imposing Their Greed on Mozambique
16 Sep 2020
IMF financing has impoverished Mozambique’s once proudly revolutionary government, forcing it to hire mercenaries to put down rebellion.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
First and Foremost, Malcolm X Was “Black Minded”
15 Sep 2020
If he were alive today, Malcolm X “would be a harsh and clear critic of everything that’s happening” under the Black Lives Matter banner, said Michael Sawyer, a professor of Race, Ethnicity, a
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Capitalism and Racism Entwined
15 Sep 2020
“There’s long been a recognition of this intertwining of slavery, white supremacy, racism and capitalism,” said Dr.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Losers, Suckers and War
09 Sep 2020
Democrats are up in arms over Trump’s latest mouth-burst, but the truth is that both corporate parties have made the people suckers for endless, “bipartisan” wars.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The NBA Strike Brings the Counterinsurgency War on Black Liberation Movement to Basketball
09 Sep 2020
When NBA players threatened to disrupt business as usual the ruling class deployed perhaps its most effective weapon of counterinsurgency: Barack Obama.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
It’s Time to Acknowledge Hutu Genocide and Rwandan Occupation of DR Congo
09 Sep 2020
“Global power elites are silent about Hutu genocide and Rwanda’s ongoing occupation of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),” writes Ann Garrison, “because it has served their interests for many