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  • Beware the Dangers of Reformism
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Beware the Dangers of Reformism
    05 Mar 2018
    Reformers often wind up legitimizing and strengthening police power, said Dylan Rodriguez, professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside.
  • Holding the Line Against Neoliberalism in Jackson MS
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Holding the Line Against Neoliberalism in Jackson MS
    05 Mar 2018
    Cooperation Jackson activist Kali Akuno said the grassroots movement can count on broad aspects of unity with the overwhelmingly Black capital city’s political class.
  • The Great, Bloody Black Dispersal from the Cities
    Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
    The Great, Bloody Black Dispersal from the Cities
    01 Mar 2018
    “The grand plan is to reverse the demography of the Seventies by forcing Blacks out of the central cities and into suburbs and small towns, rendering Black peo
  • Freedom Rider: Why the Shooting Will Continue
    Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
    Freedom Rider: Why the Shooting Will Continue
    28 Feb 2018
    “All the sound and fury about gun control is useless because this society demands that the slave patrol never disband.”
  • Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Elías Gonzalez
    Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
    Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Elías Gonzalez
    28 Feb 2018
    “W.E.B. Du Bois. He really gave us the language; James Baldwin gave us the style.”
  • Good Panther, Bad Panther
    Paul Street
    Good Panther, Bad Panther
    28 Feb 2018
    “Black revolutionary consciousness is merged with white and bourgeois Urban Nightmare
  • “Mass Incarceration” Reform as Police Endorsement
    Dylan Rodríguez
    “Mass Incarceration” Reform as Police Endorsement
    28 Feb 2018
    “The reform of mass incarceration, as it has been absorbed by the cultural ensemble of the state and its distensions, endorses an expansion of policing logics.
  • The FBI's War on Black-Owned Bookstores
    Joshua Clark Davis
    The FBI's War on Black-Owned Bookstores
    28 Feb 2018
    “In Hoover’s eyes, black-owned bookstores represented a coordinated network of hate-spewing extremists.”
  • Mass Incarceration for Profit: The 13th Amendment and National Oppression in the U.S.
    Abayomi Azikiwe
    Mass Incarceration for Profit: The 13th Amendment and National Oppression in the U.S.
    28 Feb 2018
    “Why was it necessary to include language in the Amendment which maintained involuntary servitude within the prison system?”
  • Sundiata Acoli’s “Affirmation”
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Sundiata Acoli’s “Affirmation”
    27 Feb 2018
    Political prisoner Sundiata Acoli, who was arrested with fellow Black Panther Assata Shakur in 1973, is among a host of political prisoners and activists that took part in a readin
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