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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Bianca Williams’ The Pursuit of Happiness
06 Jun 2018
“It is crucial for us to understand that what we feel as Black peoples provides useful data that can be turned into critical analysis.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Imani Perry’s May We Forever Stand
06 Jun 2018
“We often reduce Black politics to integrationism vs nationalism, but freedom dreams have always been more robust and complex.”
Adofo Minka
Lumumba Fiddles While Jackson, Mississippi is Ablaze with Police State Killing
06 Jun 2018
“The Jackson police department’s actions expose them as a violent thug operation that needs to be disarmed and eventually disbanded.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Russia's Putin and Israel's Netanyahu negotiate . . . about what?
06 Jun 2018
“Russia has friendly relations with Israel, and more than a million Russian Jews emigrated to Israel, but Iran is a strategic ally of Russia.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Russia-gate and the Crisis of American Exceptionalism
06 Jun 2018
The following is an edited version of remarks delivered to the Black Agenda Report panel on “Russiagate: Muzzling the Black Left and the March to War,”at the Left Forum, in New York City, this past weekend. “Indications of deep unrest that occurred under Obama, such as the Occupy Wall Street…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Real Problem with Joy Ann Reid
06 Jun 2018
“It is interesting that she gets scrutiny for all the wrong reasons.” “One of the more amazing outcomes of the Trump administration is the number of neoconservatives that are now my friends and I am aligned with. I found myself agreeing on a panel with Bill Kristol. I agree more with Jennifer Rubin…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Nationalizing the Banks is a Popular Demand, So Let’s Demand It
06 Jun 2018
“Everybody knows that the bankers are criminal, and everybody hates the banks.” The following is an edited version of remarks Black Agenda Report executive editor Glen Ford delivered to a panel on “Imagining an Authentic U.S. Left for the 21st Century,” at the Left Forum, in New York City, this…
The Editors
Black Agenda Report's Panel Discussion at the 2018 Left Forum
06 Jun 2018
This was the 2018 Black Agenda Report panel at the 2018 Left Forum in NYC. The participants took part in other panels and presentations as well, which we will showcase in coming weeks. Due to a YouTube quirk, the initial display may not show the person in the video, but once you click on it you'll…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
What Would An Authentic 21st Century US Left Look Like?
07 Jun 2018
Let’s face it, the US left is a long way right now from contending for power. One of many useful questions asked at last week’s Left Forum in NYC invited some of us to speculate on what an authentic 21st century US left might look like. Here’s what I came up with. 1. An authentic left must be…
Dr. Kweli Nzito
The Roots of Bigotry: Criminalizing States of Innate Being
12 Jun 2018
“Racist narratives become so thoroughly pervasive as to throw victims of racism themselves into states of confusion.” “What You Say about Somebody Else, Anybody Else, Reveals You”-- James Baldwin, Take This Hammer, Documentary, 1963