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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Vince Schleitwiler’s “Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific”
11 Jul 2018
“The constraints empire placed on its racial contradictions are falling away.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Vince Schleitwiler. Schleitwiler is Acting Assistant Professor of American Ethnic Studies at the…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ari Heinrich’s “Chinese Surplus”
11 Jul 2018
“Cutting-edge biomedical technology actually perpetuates certain inequalities.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
On July 4th, American Exceptionalism, and Ruling Class fear of Trump
11 Jul 2018
“With each passing day under Trump, the mythology of US exceptionalism becomes more fragile.”
Paul Street
Bernie Sanders: “Don’t Be Rude to White Nationalists, Do What Alexandria Did”
11 Jul 2018
“People Have a Right to Go Into a Restaurant and Have Dinner” Bernie Huckabee-Sanders said he did not support being rude to “people” when he was asked about incidents in which Trump administration officials were publicly harassed because of their vicious policy of kidnapping migrant children at the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: British Collusion and Criminality
11 Jul 2018
“Collusion continues not between Trump and Russians, but between intelligence agencies, the media and American politicians with hidden agendas.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Nuclear Power in Africa?
11 Jul 2018
“Sub-Saharan Africa faces an extraordinary level of energy poverty.” Rosatom—Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation—has recently signed Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with a number of African nations to build nuclear power plants within their borders. I spoke to David Himbara, a professor…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
California Leads the Way in Resistance to the Rule of Bankers
12 Jul 2018
“There can be no reversal of the corporate “race to the bottom” unless the Lords of Capital are dethroned.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
All Lives Matter?
12 Jul 2018
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne Two celebrities died this week Pundits pooled barrels of ink coast to coast; Kleenex flew from shelves; and Facebook filled…
Victoria McKenzie and Steven Cohen
USAID Helps Colombia Mine Owners Prey on Blacks and Indigenous
18 Jul 2018
“If I say I’m black, I’m black.” In April 2013, the northeastern department of La Guajira, Colombia was suffering its worst drought in three decades. The streams that flow down from the Sierra Nevada and Serranía del Perijá had reduced to a trickle, and the scattered wells on the already arid…
Adam Hudson
Black Americans’ Median Wealth Could Disappear in One Generation
18 Jul 2018
“Neighborhoods that were redlined in the 1930s are still predominantly nonwhite, lower-income and economically disenfranchised.”