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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.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Capitalism’s the problem, not Kaepernick… NFL: Naked Fascist Labor (‘Relations’)
14 Sep 2017
32 mastuhs, versus 3 in the N-word industry fielding cyanide-tongued Toms. 32 money-worshipping medieval men with miniature Hearts—constipated souls: Extorting broken bridge and train towns; Extorting shuttered school, cardboard colonies; Extorting poisoned water protectorates with threats of…
Solomon Comissiong
Donald Trump and the Fraudulent Democratic Party
20 Sep 2017
“The system has to be deconstructed to be reconstructed into something that is actually equitable and democratic.”
Ken Morgan
Police Brutality: No End Under Capitalism
20 Sep 2017
“Hiring more black police officers probably doesn’t offer a direct solution to this problem.” Recently, another cop -- former St. Louis officer, Jason Stockley -- was acquitted for the 2011 first-degree murder of Anthony Lamar Smith. The police video caught most of the incident. It included the…
Alvaro Reyes
Fascists Will Fester Until We Get Rid of Capitalism
20 Sep 2017
Ana Curcio interviews Alvaro Reyes about Charlottesville, white supremacy, and contemporary challenges for politics in the US. Curcio is a militant scholar and coordinator of Commonware.org. Reyes is an author and activist with El Kilombo, in Durham, North Carolina. Ana Cucio: Could you briefly…