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Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
No kings and things (Of mobilized masses)
25 Jun 2025
"No kings and things (Of mobilized masses)" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Jon Jeter
Making a Mountain out of a Mole Hill, Trump Sends Troops to Los Angeles, Hoping to Energize His MAGA Base
11 Jun 2025
Trump deploys Marines against LA protesters, echoing Nixon’s Kent State crackdown. But this time, he faces a broader, greatly disaffected opposition ready to fight back.
Struggle La Lucha
ICE Raids Escalate in LA As Community Fights Back
11 Jun 2025
While ICE and law enforcement unleash raids across LA, protesters stand firm, exposing the brutal machinery of deportation and the state’s violent response to dissent and resistance.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Fall of 2020: How Liberals Ceded Solidarity and Engineered Social Justice Solitude
28 May 2025
The 2020 uprisings could have sparked a multiracial working-class movement against systemic oppression, but liberal elites defanged its radical potential. By reducing Black liberation to performative…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
HANDS OFF NATO? Not Palestine? Who got the memo?
09 Apr 2025
The Democrats’ HANDS OFF rallies included “HANDS OFF NATO” and excluded “HANDS OFF PALESTINE,” but not all rally goers got the memo.
Joel Mukisa
The problem is systemic: understanding the #OccupyParliament movement in Kenya
09 Oct 2024
Reflecting on the mass protests that recently shook Kenyan society from top to bottom, Joel Mukisa argues that we must go much further than a choiceless democracy to find answers. A systematic…
Salvador Ousmane
Nigerian government unleashes massive repression after #endhunger protests
25 Sep 2024
At the beginning of August this year, tens of thousands of Nigerians rose up to denounce the government in a movement that was organised under the slogans #endbadgovernance and #endhunger. For too…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Love My Black Job
11 Sep 2024
"Love My Black Job" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Protests for Palestine at the DNC
28 Aug 2024
DNC protest organizers kept Democrats’ responsibility for the Gaza genocide in the news from October to August.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Chicago Authorities Want a “Conversation” with the Poor People’s Army about the DNC 2024
24 Jul 2024
The Poor People’s Army has a permit to march to the steps of the Democratic National Convention in August, but now Chicago authorities want to have a “conversation” with them.