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  • BAR Book Forum: Fikile Nxumalo’s “Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Fikile Nxumalo’s “Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education”
    29 Jan 2020
    The author rejects ways of teaching that distort Black young people’s relationships with the natural world.
  • The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an "Aberration"
    Michelle Alexander
    The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an "Aberration"
    22 Jan 2020
    Yes, Trump is an inveterate liar, but American politicians have always told lies about the Black and brown people they demonize and mass-imprison.
  • Want Out of Jail? First You Have to Take a Fast Food Job
    Anna Wolfe and Michelle Liu
    Want Out of Jail? First You Have to Take a Fast Food Job
    22 Jan 2020
    The convict labor system was once notorious in Mississippi – and it still is, under the guise of debt restitution.
  • Baltimore’s Black Alliance for Peace Demands End to Policing Surge
    BAP-Baltimore
    Baltimore’s Black Alliance for Peace Demands End to Policing Surge
    15 Jan 2020
    Baltimore is among the seven cities targeted by the Trump administration for a high-tech “surge” in police penetration of Black communities.
  • US War on Black and Brown Youth
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    US War on Black and Brown Youth
    31 Dec 2019
    “The term ‘gang’ is used for formations of young Black and brown men, but is never seriously used to describe the greatest purveyor of violence in the world, the US military,” said Justin “
  • A National Movement for Community Control of Police
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    A National Movement for Community Control of Police
    31 Dec 2019
    New York activists look forward to collaborating with the newly established National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression in creating a network to fight for community control of police
  • Many Blacks Would Welcome Police Exit from Their Communities
    Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
    Many Blacks Would Welcome Police Exit from Their Communities
    10 Dec 2019
    “The whole battlefield array of weapons is now deployed in Black and brown communities.”
  • Texas Court Halts Rodney Reed Execution Over Questions of Withheld Evidence, False Testimony
    Jordan Smith
    Texas Court Halts Rodney Reed Execution Over Questions of Withheld Evidence, False Testimony
    20 Nov 2019
    A Black man gets a reprieve from execution in the death of a white woman who may have been killed by her cop husband.
  • Mumia: Even Angela Davis Shocked by US Mass Incarceration
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Mumia: Even Angela Davis Shocked by US Mass Incarceration
    05 Nov 2019
    Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, notes that even trailblazing prison abolition scholar Angela Davis, herself a former political prisoner, underestimated
  • “The Damned Don’t Cry: Pages from the Life of a Black Prisoner and Organizer” -- a Review of a book by Frank Edgar Chapman, Jr. 
    Joe Iosbaker 
    “The Damned Don’t Cry: Pages from the Life of a Black Prisoner and Organizer” -- a Review of a book by Frank Edgar Chapman, Jr. 
    23 Oct 2019
     Frank Chapman’s book should be on the shelf with the Autobiography of Malcolm X and Soledad Brother.
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