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Sam Levin
'They Executed Him': Police Killing of Stephon Clark Leaves Family Shattered
28 Mar 2018
“I shouldn’t have to defend my brother. They should be proving their innocence.” “They gunned him down like a dog,” Stevante Clark said of the police shooting of his brother, Stephon. “They executed him.” Stevante was in the back seat of a car, his voice quivering. He stomped his feet 20 times –…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Maria Felipa of Frente Favela Brazil
28 Mar 2018
“Slavery is the factor that better explains the social problems in the country.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
March for Eight Billion Lives: An Interview with Riva Enteen
28 Mar 2018
“Of course we support the cause of protecting lives, but there is an exceptionalism to believing it only applies to American lives and especially white lives.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Stephan House, Draylen Mason, Stephon Clark: Terror Victims
28 Mar 2018
“Business should not go on as usual when the police act as the 21st century slave patrol.” The word terrorism is both over used and useless. It generally refers to the actions of the American government’s political enemies. It is rarely used to describe the wanton killing that is committed by this…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Rouge State
28 Mar 2018
Nuclear bully’s roaring for war Thru the mouth of its dinosaur— At war ever since its bloody birth Now, threatening the entire earth! Rouge State— warlike deadweight you annihilate Subjugate Expropriate— you devastate Rouge State— Land of the inmate you incarcerate Infiltrate Assassinate— you…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Building Movement Politics Means Fighting Democrats
29 Mar 2018
“In the absence of a renewed, grassroots street offensive against the armed occupation of Black communities, there will be no relief from the daily slaughter.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Marching for the Democrats: Another Farce on Washington?
29 Mar 2018
“The opportunism of the Democrats made these students and their pain easy targets.” “They called in [Roy] Wilkins; they called in [A. Philip] Randolph; they called in these national Negro leaders that you respect and told them, ‘Call it off.’ Kennedy said, ‘Look, you all are letting this thing go…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Gun Debate A Narrow Opportunity For Democrats, A Wide One For the Left
29 Mar 2018
Last weekend the March For Our Lives mobilized half a million on the DC mall and a few hundred thousand more combined in dozens of cities across the US. Lyft donated a million free rides to marchers, and a long list of celebrity endorsers wrote checks and cut spots. Broadcast and cable media gave…
Zwelinzima Vavi , Ncedisa Mpemnyama
Two Salutes to Winnie Mandela
04 Apr 2018
South African Federation of Trade Unions mourns passing of Comrade Winnie Mandela by Zwelinzima Vavi “She will always be an inspiration for future generator of women revolutionaries.” On April 2, Winnie Mandela, the South African freedom fighter in the anti-apartheid struggle and the ‘Mother’ of…
Jonathan Cook
If This Happened in Alabama There Would Be Uproar: In Israel, it’s the Norm
04 Apr 2018
“Half of Israeli Jews confess that they do not want ‘Arabs’ as neighbors.” How would you describe a white town in a southern state in the United States that froze the tender for plots of land in a new neighborhood because it risked allowing blacks to move in? As racist? What would you think of the…