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  • Keep Victoire Ingabire in Your Hearts
    Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
    Keep Victoire Ingabire in Your Hearts
    10 Mar 2021
    Victoire risked her life to establish that Hutu people were also killed by the Tutsi army, before, during, and after the Rwanda genocide, writes Ann Garrison.
  • MANIFESTO: African LGBTI Manifesto/Declaration, April 18, 2010
    Editors, The Black Agenda Review
    MANIFESTO: African LGBTI Manifesto/Declaration, April 18, 2010
    10 Mar 2021
    The manifesto claimed the LGBTI struggle as an indelible and urgent part of the history of Pan-Africanism and the ongoing movements for Black sovereignty.
  • Meet me at Mary’s Place…
    Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
    Meet me at Mary’s Place…
    10 Mar 2021
    “…he said if you can enjoy A real nice affair (Over at Mary's place—oh) Then you'll make it Your business to be right there… (Over at Mary's place— oh)”  —Sam Cooke
  • Why Cornel West’s Tenure Fight Matters
    Robin D.G. Kelley
    Why Cornel West’s Tenure Fight Matters
    10 Mar 2021
    Harvard’s administrators completely miss the point of tenure, which was created to allow scholars to do their work, speak their truth, and stand up for something without risking their jobs.
  • Movements Not Saviors: Lessons from Bobi Wine’s Tweet for Juan Guaido
    Netfa Freeman and Jemima Pierre
    Movements Not Saviors: Lessons from Bobi Wine’s Tweet for Juan Guaido
    10 Mar 2021
    Bobi Wine’s flirtation with US Venezuelan puppet Juan Guaido indicates that the Ugandan is also auditioning for the imperial puppet job.
  • Letters from Our Readers
    Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
    Letters from Our Readers
    10 Mar 2021
    This week Pan Africanism and the Black Panther Party were on your minds.
  • BAR Book Forum: Amy Cooper’s “State of Health”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Amy Cooper’s “State of Health”
    10 Mar 2021
    Unlike the US and other corporate-ruled countries, activists inside and outside of government collaborated to bring about radical social change in Venezuela.
  • BAR Book Forum: Rinaldo Walcott’s “The Long Emancipation”
    Rinaldo Walcott
    BAR Book Forum: Rinaldo Walcott’s “The Long Emancipation”
    10 Mar 2021
    “Black freedom” as a claim, as a possibility, challenges us to imagine and to produce new modes of life.
  • Newly Obtained FBI Files Shed New Light on the Murder of Fred Hampton
    Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagher 
    Newly Obtained FBI Files Shed New Light on the Murder of Fred Hampton
    10 Mar 2021
    That all this time later we are still learning new information about Hampton’s killing is testament to the sheer volume of the effort aimed at this young revolutionary.
  • Black Civil Rights Lawyer in New Orleans Fights Back Against Exploitative Media Organization
    Jordan Flaherty
    Black Civil Rights Lawyer in New Orleans Fights Back Against Exploitative Media Organization
    10 Mar 2021
    Well-meaning whites think its quite alright to steal Black activists’ words – as long as their intentions are good, which is up to them to decide.
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