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  • Louisianans Seek End of “10-2” Law
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Louisianans Seek End of “10-2” Law
    25 Mar 2019
    “We have over 2000 people sitting in prison that were convicted under this racist, unconstitutional Jim Crow law” that allows guilty verdicts by just 10 of 12 jurors, said Belinda Parker-Brown, pre
  • Black-Led Maryland Party Looks Beyond Elections
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Black-Led Maryland Party Looks Beyond Elections
    25 Mar 2019
    Maryland’s Ujima Peoples Progress Party is preparing for a statewide conference in Baltimore, May 11, under the theme, “Elections and Beyond: Building Independent Solutions for the Black Community.
  • Reparations Means Global Social Transformation
    Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
    Reparations Means Global Social Transformation
    21 Mar 2019
    Reparations is not a token gesture of concern, apology or even solidarity; it seeks justice and redress of wrongs through the transformation of a people’s condition.
  • Dr. Cynthia McKinney is the author of "How the US Creates Shithole Countries"
    Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
    How the U.S. Creates ‘Sh*thole’ Countries: A Review
    20 Mar 2019
    Cynthia McKinney and her co-writers have produced an important literary tool for anti-imperial agitation and education.
  • Pacifica Is a Grassroots Radio Lifeline: Let’s Keep It Together
    Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
    Pacifica Is a Grassroots Radio Lifeline: Let’s Keep It Together
    20 Mar 2019
    In many urban areas, Pacifica and its affiliates offer the only counter to the Republican/Democratic duopoly narratives.
  • The Secret to Funding a Green New Deal
    Ellen Brown
    The Secret to Funding a Green New Deal
    20 Mar 2019
    Millions of jobs can be created in a national energy transformation without blowing up the deficit.
  • Letters from Our Readers 
    Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
    Letters from Our Readers 
    20 Mar 2019
    Double standards in the criminal justice system, the relationship between feminism and sex work as well as between reparations and immigrants were on readers’ minds this week.  The top re
  • BAR Book Forum: Tamura Lomax’s “Jezebel Unhinged”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Tamura Lomax’s “Jezebel Unhinged”
    20 Mar 2019
    The jezebel discourse is reproduced in and circulated between the Black Church and black popular culture, making each a site of antiblack and sexist stereotypic cultivation and pornotropic gazing.
  • BAR Book Forum: Gary Dorrien’s“The New Abolition”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Gary Dorrien’s“The New Abolition”
    20 Mar 2019
    The founder of Black social gospel fought hard for their right to combine racial justice politics and progressive theology in black church contexts. 
  • The US Is Failing Black Women With HIV
    Thurka Sangaramoorthy
    The US Is Failing Black Women With HIV
    20 Mar 2019
    Many believe the HIV epidemic in the US is nearing an end, but Blacks represent 43 percent of all persons with newly diagnosed HIV.
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