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Ken Morgan
Blacks, DACA, and Immigration
13 Sep 2017
Donald Trump recently rescinded DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA protects those minors that undocumented family members brought to America -- and keeps them from being deported. The National Association of Social Workers suggests that DACA rescinding effects 800,000…
Don Santina
Why I Will Boycott the NFL
13 Sep 2017
Yes, yes, I know, no one will notice if I don’t attend a National Football League game this season or watch one on television. And the sky won’t fall if I refuse to read about those games in my daily sports section, listen to sports talk radio or discuss the seasonal ups and downs of the 49ers and…
An interview with Christina Schiavoni
People are Radicalizing the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela
13 Sep 2017
Amidst imperialist interference, the people in Venezuela are carrying on the task of reorganizing their society. The real-life picture of Venezuela is far different from the reports the mainstream media continuously circulates. The following interview with Christina Schiavoni, a researcher and food…
Barbara Ransby
Widening the Tent for a Multiracial Labor Movement
13 Sep 2017
I grew up in Detroit in the 1960s and ’70s, which is to say, I grew up in a union town. My father, Charlie Ransby, did backbreaking work most of his life and was a lifelong union member. He worked in a small plant that cleaned industrial gloves for the Big Three auto companies (GM, Ford and…
Manmeet Sahni
How Women Were at the Helm of the Black Panther Party
13 Sep 2017
How Women Were at the Helm of the Black Panther Party “By the early 1970s, women formed nearly two-thirds of the Black Panther Party.” When one looks back at the revolutionary Black Panther Party, one envisions iconic Black leaders sporting black berets and leather coats, with their rifles tucked…
Kristian Davis Bailey
Palestinian Women in U.S. to Connect with Communities of Struggle
13 Sep 2017
Four months ago I sat in the apartment of a family of Palestinian refugees in Burj el Barajneh camp, just outside of Beirut. It was the final night of a trip to examine the potential for relationships and exchanges between Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Black people in the US.
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The United States is a Racist Monument, Tear it Down!
13 Sep 2017
The United States is a Racist Monument, Tear it Down! “Prisons in the US are monuments that enforce terror against oppressed people.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Mercury in Retrograde: Las Vegas Cops Assault NFL Star Michael Bennett
13 Sep 2017
Mercury in Retrograde: Las Vegas Cops Assault NFL Star Michael Bennett “Bennett didn’t speak out for more than a week because he didn’t want to distract attention from the suffering in Houston, his hometown.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Hurricanes and Capitalism
13 Sep 2017
Freedom Rider: Hurricanes and Capitalism “No one can expect a helping hand unless they are already among the haves.” Recent hurricanes in Texas and Florida reveal a great deal about the United States and how little it does for its people. Of course hurricane winds destroy material things and injure…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Black Panthers Didn’t Fight Symbols
13 Sep 2017
“Johnny Reb’s footprint on the landscape is tiny compared to the 5,000 state and federal prisons and jails that crater the nation.”