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Tryon P. Woods
“Stand Your Ground”: Siwatu-Salama Ra and Black Self-Defense, Part 2
16 May 2018
“In a slaveholding society such as ours, even after the formal institution of chattel slavery has ended, each and every legal principle ultimately expresses the foundational antagonism between non-black and black.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power
16 May 2018
“All of the women in the book envisioned new and expansive visions of black liberation.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. Today’s featured author is Ashley D. Farmer. Farmer is Assistant Professor of History at Boston University. Her book is…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Spill
16 May 2018
“Spill is about freeing up our imaginations and our bodies for a world we deserve and yet don’t know how to narrate.”
Black Alliance For Peace
Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza
16 May 2018
“The systematic violence could not have occurred without the ongoing support from the U.S.” While the delegation from the Trump administration and leaders from various parts of the world gathered in Jerusalem to witness the illegal and immoral move of the United States embassy to that beleaguered…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
What does Kanye West Have to do with the Jobless Rate? A Lot
16 May 2018
“Kanye West merely represents what happens when the Black misleadership class begins to reflect the crisis of the US system.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Black Support for the Police State
16 May 2018
“If having black faces in high and not so high places doesn’t save our lives why should we support them at all?” The worst hate group in the United States is not the Ku Klux Klan or any self-proclaimed alt-right group. The most racist, vicious, and deadly menace to black people in this country is…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Challenging Democratic Party Corruption in Pennsylvania’s District 197
16 May 2018
“It's time for us to grow up and join the rest of the world that has several different political parties.” In 2017, Cheri Honkala was the Green Party’s candidate for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in Philadelphia’s District 197. I spoke to her about what happened. Ann Garrison:Cheri,…
Tafi Mhaka
On Trump, Gaza and White Supremacy in South Africa
23 May 2018
“Our experiences of white supremacy oppression are real and they don't end with the end of slavery.” On May 2, representatives of Afriforum, a controversial South African organization, traveled to the US on a mission to lobby the US government to take a stance against what they called a "racist…
Yves Engler
The French Imperial Role in Africa
23 May 2018
“Criticizing France’s role in Rwanda dovetails with the interests of Kigali, Washington, London and Ottawa.” Left criticism of French imperialism in Africa provides a stark example. Incredibly, the primary contemporary criticism North American leftists make of French imperialism on that continent…
Mark P. Fancher
Africans Can Become a People Not to Be Trifled With
23 May 2018
“One effective method of attacking the imperialist infrastructure is to drain its pool of enforcers by organizing a total boycott of the U.S. military.” In 1835, poet Alfred Tennyson penned the oft-quoted verse: “…in the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love…” In 2018, “Gator…