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Black Alliance For Peace
The Black Alliance for Peace Demands U.S. Out of Africa
30 May 2018
“We demand that the Congressional Black Caucus take a public stand in opposition to AFRICOM.” African Liberation Day (ALD) grew out of the attempts to establish the continental unity of Africa and all African people 55 years ago and is now celebrated every May 25th around the world.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sami Schalk’s Bodyminds Reimagined
30 May 2018
“Concepts of able-mindedness are historically based within gender and racial norms of masculinity and whiteness—with damaging and deadly results for black people.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nell Painter’s Old in Art School
30 May 2018
“The ideology I’d like to dismantle makes every black person the same as every other black person, assumed to be a man or woman under the age of sixty-five.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
As Sharpton Drooled Over Royals, Righteous Folks Celebrated the Real Heroes of May 19th
30 May 2018
“The revolutionary heroes of May 19th would find Sharpton and his clique not just repulsive, but criminal as well.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: When Uncle Tom Falls
30 May 2018
“Fryer posited that perhaps black people are genetically inferior to whites or that black children don’t succeed in school for the same reason.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Divide and Rule: Balkanizing the Democratic Republic of Congo
30 May 2018
“The Belgians had made it clear, before independence, that they did not intend to cede control of its wealth to the Congolese.”
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Why Our Green Parties Haven't Taken Off
30 May 2018
A solid majority of Americans polled want to see a third party compete with Republicans and Democrats. On a range of issues too, the public is well to the left of both the ruling class parties. So why hasn’t the Green Party taken off and made itself a contender? The answer is a mix of internal and…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
How the “Progressives” in the Black Caucus Have Shrunk to Almost Nothing
30 May 2018
“The Democratic Party is a people-suppression mechanism.”
Jon Jeter
Racist Roseanne Was Way Off: Valerie Jarrett Hailed from Planet of the Rich
06 Jun 2018
“Throughout her public life, Jarrett served the Empire and not the people, African-Americans least of all.” The meeting at the White House in the spring of 2012 was not going well.
The Public Archives
Imperialism and Apocalypse: An Interview with Gerald Horne
06 Jun 2018
“U.S. Imperialism is formidable and violently vindictive simultaneously.”