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  • The Difference between the CPC and the DNC? A Study of Politics Versus Personalities
    Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
    The Difference between the CPC and the DNC? A Study of Politics Versus Personalities
    02 Sep 2020
    Unlike Joe Biden, Xi Jinping’s report is centered, not on personality but on the actually-existing socialist system in China.
  • The US Has Long Led the Assault on Human Rights
    ​​​​​​​ Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
    The US Has Long Led the Assault on Human Rights
    02 Sep 2020
    The historical record on U.S. human rights policies, both domestic and international, is one of hypocrisy, deceit, and denigration.
  • The NBA’s Black Power
    Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
    The NBA’s Black Power
    02 Sep 2020
    Black NBA players, writes Ann Garrison, are just beginning to understand the power of the attention and admiration they command.
  • Deja vu—Step 1 and Step 2? 
    Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
    Deja vu—Step 1 and Step 2? 
    02 Sep 2020
    Is this Deja Vu— Step1 and Step 2? The long, long lines breaking with 12 years of Reaganite reaction in  ’92  Slick Willy’s $campaign—his sax-
  • “The Balls in (Y)our Court:” Naomi Osaka and (Continued) Black Genocide 
    P. Khalil Saucier
    “The Balls in (Y)our Court:” Naomi Osaka and (Continued) Black Genocide 
    02 Sep 2020
    Osaka’s statement must be seen as part of a radical tradition too often redacted from sports history.
  • The Invention of Ibram X Kendi and the Ideological Crises of Our Time
    Anthony Monteiro
    The Invention of Ibram X Kendi and the Ideological Crises of Our Time
    02 Sep 2020
    Rich white capitalists may be donating millions to Black Lives Matter, but they’re also funding and praising nonsense like Kendi’s babblings on race and capitalism.
  • Letters from Our Readers
    Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
    Letters from Our Readers
    02 Sep 2020
    This week the Democratic Party presidential ticket was on your minds.
  • BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
    Asha Noor
    BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
    02 Sep 2020
    An abolitionist frame of thought is a rebirth, a spiritual process, a painful undertaking, and an ancestral conjuring for Black and brown people.
  • BAR Book Forum: Vicky Osterweil’s “In Defense of Looting”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Vicky Osterweil’s “In Defense of Looting”
    02 Sep 2020
    Looting and rioting appear as immediately effective tactics in the struggle against whiteness, property and the police.
  • US Facilitates Arms for Killer Cops and Criminals in Haiti
    Jake Johnson
    US Facilitates Arms for Killer Cops and Criminals in Haiti
    02 Sep 2020
    Weapons are flowing to pro-regime gangsters suspected of assassinating opponents of the US-backed regime.
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