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Paul Street
Chicago Racist Police-State Blues: Sixteen Shots for Laquan, Three Years for Van Dyke
23 Jan 2019
Street activism led to an historic murder conviction of a killer cop, but then a racist judge let him off with a light sentence. “There is one law for the police and another law for those on the wrong side of the racial and socioeconomic oppression structures the police serve and protect.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Anti-imperialist Dilemma: What If the US is “Right” About the Election in DR Congo?
23 Jan 2019
The US may, for once, be doing the right thing in the Congo, although undoubtedly for its own imperial reasons. “The Congolese people no doubt voted to reject the Kabila regime as much as anything else, not to elect a Kabila collaborator.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Free Marzieh Hashemi
23 Jan 2019
A Black American journalist languishes in a DC jail, imprisoned without charge as part of the US vendetta against Iran, yet the Black political class has not raised a peep in protest. “No one knows what the grand jury is investigating or when its work will be done.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Bernie Sanders vs Kamala the Jailer and Her Corporate Backers
24 Jan 2019
The best thing that can happen in 2020 is for Bernie Sanders to do fantastically in the primaries and be cheated out of the nomination, once again, thus giving millions of leftish Democrats a chance to do something useful with their lives: leave the party. “Kamala Harris is by far the most…
Mary Serumaga
Bio-piracy: the Sale of Uganda’s Lakes to Investors
26 Jan 2019
The fishermen of Kabarole District appear to have blown the whistle on an audacious act of bio-piracy. They brought to the attention of the authorities that they were being barred from access to the 53 crater lakes that they have fished in from time immemorial. In law this is known as a customary…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Riddle of National Sovreignity
30 Jan 2019
Brown body writhing in orange flames; scents of burning hair and flesh—so, how do you say Lynching in Spanish? Torched clinics were hollowed out shells without medicines and Hoarders warehouses stay stuffed like piñatas while shelves and bellies stay stuck on empty—so, how do you say sabotage in…
Eric Blanc
Never Trust a Billionaire’s Antiracism
30 Jan 2019
The LA teachers strike was a tale of two competing antiracist visions — one upheld by privatizing billionaires and another pushed by working people. “To fight racism in the city’s schools, they turned to their union and mass strike action.”
Julian Vigo
Humanitarian Aid is Broken: Haiti, a Look Back
30 Jan 2019
Much of the money sent to help Haiti ended up being spent on western citizens at the expense of Haitian suffering. “These organizations were merely there to colonize anew.”
Kimberley Richards
Angela Davis Reoffered Award By Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
30 Jan 2019
An embarrassed and shamed Institute reinstates award “in keeping with its commitment to learning from its mistakes.” “Reversal based on ‘new input from the community.’” Angela Davis has been reoffered an award from an Alabama civil rights museum after it sparked controversy for rescinding the honor…
Mark P. Fancher
The Diary of a Trumpy Kid
30 Jan 2019
The formative years of the future Commander-in-Thief. “Hail, Comandante Idiota!” While rummaging through a bin of old journals in a used book store, I stumbled upon a 1959 camp diary authored by a kid named “Donnie.” As I read the entries I began to wonder whether this might be the literary product…