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Miles Kampf-Lassin
The Anti-Union Janus Ruling Is Going to Hit Black Women the Hardest
04 Jul 2018
“The public sector provides job opportunities for African-American workers, and women especially, at a rate much higher than the private sector.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Britt Rusert’s “Fugitive Science”
04 Jul 2018
“We are seeing the reemergence of a white supremacist engagement with science that has always existed, but is finding more traction within the public sphere and media.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Deirdre Cooper Owens’ “Medical Bondage”
04 Jul 2018
“American gynecology and obstetrics is intimately bound to American slavery.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Deirdre Cooper Owens. Owens is an Associate Professor of History at Queens College, CUNY. Her book is…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
When Democrats Aren’t the Least-Worst
04 Jul 2018
“The argument that anyone to the left of Donald Trump owes their vote to a Democrat has always been stupid and arrogant.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Political Theater and the Immigration Crisis: A Two-Party Problem
04 Jul 2018
“No oppressed people or group in the US knows what it is like to be separated from their families, locked in cages, and murdered by the state more than Black Americans.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Ocasio-Cortez and the Left
04 Jul 2018
“Ocasio-Cortez deserves credit for beating a corrupt but powerful system.” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a living Rorschach test for leftists. Her primary win over incumbent Joseph Crowley in a New York City congressional district is impressive on many levels. But the reaction to her victory…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Caucus Support for Anti-Lynching Law is a Sham
04 Jul 2018
“The lynchers-in-blue run amuk because they are aided and abetted by the Black Misleadership Class and its Democratic elected representatives in Congress.”
The Public Archive
Labor and Liberation: An Interview with Margaret Stevens
11 Jul 2018
“Black working class militancy is THE essential precondition for the fight against racism, but it is not sufficient.”
Mark P. Fancher
Make a White Turn and Come to a Dead End
11 Jul 2018
“White workers have not only failed to precisely identify their class enemies, they have also held on to the racial baggage of their ancestors.” It has happened to all of us. There are no good games or movies on, so we default to MSNBC. We have entered Talking Head World which is populated by,…
Judith Shulevitz
Forgotten Feminisms: Johnnie Tillmon’s Battle Against ‘The Man’
11 Jul 2018
“Mainstream feminists never quite knew what to do with the welfare rights movement.”