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Vincent Lloyd
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Achille Mbembe's "Critique of Black Reason" (Part 1)
01 May 2019
The challenge for Black Study is to hold up examples of blackness that evade capture by the thought and institutions of the West. “Advocates of Black Study are often very suspicious of any institutional configuration.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Bénédicte Boisseron’s “Afro-Dog”
01 May 2019
Racialization in this country often goes through a disguised process of animalization. “Canine weaponry against racialized subjects is a long-standing tradition in the Americas.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Pentagon Manhunt for Julian Assange Preceded Swedish Rape Allegations
01 May 2019
The US government has disregarded due process and elemental honesty in pursuing its vendetta against Julian Assange. “We are complicit in crimes against humanity when we know about them and when we don't stop them.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
If Trump Wins in 2020, Thank Russiagate
01 May 2019
Leave it to the War Party to lose an election to a celebrity billionaire oligarch and then provide him with favorable conditions for a second-term. “Trump can now say with confidence that he was the ‘victim’ of a witch-hunt.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Solidarity with Venezuela
01 May 2019
When the US targets a government for regime change it brings all its coercive forces into play: military threats, economic sanctions, media slander and treasonous Quislings from the theater of the absurd. “The United States and its puppets care nothing for international law, the sovereignty of…
Jason Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
01 May 2019
This week readers discussed the suppression of WikiLeaks, reactionary black politicians, and the racial roots of capitalism. We share letters for “The War on Wikileaks: Which Side Are You On?,” “Terri Sewell, the Worst of the Black Caucus, Subverts $15 Wage Bill,” and “
Donna Murch
How Race Made the Opioid Crisis
01 May 2019
The demonization of urban, nonwhite drug users played a crucial role in the opening of ‘white’ pharmaceutical markets in the 1990s. “Deeply felt national narratives demarcate the line between white and black, native and foreign, innocent and guilty, medical and recreational, deserving and…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“Color” Revolution USA
02 May 2019
The US press has routinely abused, disrespected and lied about Black, brown and yellow peoples and their heads of state, and now subjects its own top political figures to the same treatment. “The ‘news’ is an element of the crime, since it is not really news at all, but a packet of false…
by Glen Ford
Black Caucus Blasted for Turning Its Back on Rep. Omar
07 May 2019
It’s been more than a generation since the Congressional Black Caucus stood up for Black people, or progressive political principles, anywhere. “The Black Caucus remains silent on the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine and the creation of a system of apartheid in both Israel and the…
Adolph Reed , Cornel West
Joe Biden Wants Us to Forget His Past. We Won't
08 May 2019
Joe Biden is the purest example of the corporate Democrats that turned the party decisively towards war, austerity and race-baiting in a previous era. “He remains as much as ever a tool of Wall Street and corporations.”