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Ann Garrison , BAR contributor , #LandWithoutLandlords in Black Oakland: An Interview with Noni Session
#LandWithoutLandlords in Black Oakland: An Interview with Noni Sessions
05 Dec 2018
A dynamic new community project has been launched to halt the push-out of Black and brown people from Oakland by taking land and housing out of the speculative market.
Mychal Denzel Smith
The Gatekeepers: The Burden of the Black Public Intellectual
05 Dec 2018
Black intellectuals wind up offering mainly white audiences a “foreign experience” to savor from a comfortable distance.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jason Borge’s “Tropical Riffs“ and John Gennari’s “Flavor and Soul”
05 Dec 2018
Our authors explore how jazz once proved the “border-hopping mobility” of African American culture, and arenas of conflict and collaboration between Blacks and Italian-Americans.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
28 Nov 2018
This week readers share their reflections on White America beyond its borders, challenge one writer’s take on Russiagate, and give their take on spirituality in the Black movement.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Keisha Lindsay’s “In a Classroom of Their Own”and Dixa Ramirez’s “Colonial Phantoms”
27 Nov 2018
Our authors address global anti-Blackness and the particular Dominican Republic variety, and examine the pros and cons of all black male schooling.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Abolition Spotlight Editor
BAR Abolition Spotlight: Derecka Purnell
27 Nov 2018
Police abolitionists “want a society that works to eliminate harm and promote liberation and self-determination.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Policing is More Than Clubs and Guns
26 Nov 2018
For Black people, policing is spread “across multiple state institutions,” including social welfare agency surveillance and school-to-prison pipelines, “and we can trace that history back to slaver
Critical Resistance
A National Abolitionist Victory for Public Health!
22 Nov 2018
Stop using police to deal with social problems and contain marginalized communities, says a report by a group representing 25,000 public health professionals.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Prison Officials Encourage Recidivism
19 Nov 2018
The nation’s best known political prisoner says prison officials don’t want to break the cycle of recidivism that sends former inmates back to confinement.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Liberation Theology is a Force in Islam
19 Nov 2018
Throughout the Muslim world, the poor struggle against entrenched elites over the nature of a just society,” said Shadaab Rahemtulla, a professor at the University of Jordan and au