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Carrie Zaremba
U.S. Universities Spent the Summer Strategizing to Suppress Student Activism. Here is their Plan.
11 Sep 2024
Schools across the U.S. have altered policies and even landscapes in an attempt to make a repeat of last spring’s Palestine protests impossible. The result is a far-reaching war on free expression…
Jacqueline Luqman
Defeat The Fascist War On African People In The US And Abroad!
19 Jun 2024
The struggle to defeat the war on African people can be understood through an analysis of the ongoing relationship between African people and the state.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Eric Adams and the NYPD Repress Dissent
08 May 2024
New York City Mayor Eric Adams may well be the very worst of the Black misleadership class. He takes great pleasure in supporting apartheid Israel and he conducted police raids and intelligence…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
R.E.A.L. Youth Initiative Works for Prison Abolition
10 Feb 2023
R.E.A.L. Youth Initiative develops revolutionary consciousness and community among current and formerly incarcerated youth towards abolition of prisons and the conditions that reproduce them.
Heather Ann Thompson
Saying Her Name
19 May 2021
Remains that were found to be those of a Black MOVE teen-ager who was killed by Philadelphia police in 1985 were treated as an anthropological specimen.
J. Lester Feder
The Police “Just Launched a War”
19 May 2021
Do some, most or all US police departments have a pattern and practice of racial bias that makes them fundamentally unable to regulate themselves?
Matthew D. Lassiter
Police and the License to Kill
12 May 2021
Detroit’s wanton killing of hundreds of Blacks in the civil right era shows why most of today’s proposals to make police more accountable are bound to fail.
Eric Umansky
What Police Impunity Looks Like
21 Apr 2021
They came into his own home and took his life for no reason.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Murder of Daunte Wright Ruined Derek Chauvin Show Trial
15 Apr 2021
The Black-murder-by-cop next door to Minneapolis shows the world the dehumanization that is built into the white supremacist DNA of settler-colonialism will continue to produce crimes against our c
Anoa Changa
More Surveillance Won’t Stop White Supremacy -- It Will Target Activists of Color
17 Mar 2021
Violence from people of color and other marginalized groups – or even simply fear of such violence -- is dealt with immediately and with the harshest of consequences.