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Paul Prescod
Defend the Post Office, Defend Black Workers
10 Jul 2019
The history of black postal workers demonstrates the critical importance of government employment and a robust public sector. “One in five black workers is employed in a government job.”
Martino Mazzonis
What Bronx’s “Decade of Fire” Teaches Us About Housing Racism in America Today
10 Jul 2019
Between 1968 and the end of the ‘70s, the Bronx was the scene of thousands of fires. “The owners of the buildings were paying local gangs to set fire to buildings.” It’s been some time since The Warriors portrayed the Bronx for the world as an infamous and dangerous neighborhood ruled by…
Marjorie Cohn
Kamala Harris Has a Distinguished Career of Serving Injustice
10 Jul 2019
Harris favored criminalizing truancy, raising cash bail fees and keeping prisoners locked up for cheap labor. “Harris’s prosecutorial record, however, is far from progressive.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ashanté Reese’s “Black Food Geographies”
10 Jul 2019
“Deserts are natural phenomena, but the lack of food services in Black communities is a systemic, man-made evil. “The unequal distribution of food resources is more evidence that this society is fucked.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ralina Joseph’s “Postracial Resistance”
10 Jul 2019
“Code speaking” in the presence of Power can be strategic, but it is also fraught with perils for Black folk. “It’s important for us to create our own tables where we can say whatever we want.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
10 Jul 2019
This week readers discussed the presidential primary, the rise of neoliberalism, and the passing of Bruce Dixon. Your letters are printed for “The Democratic Party’s Fatal Contradiction,” “The Capitalist Coup Kno
Mark P. Fancher
Theft of a Continent -- America’s Real Original Sin
10 Jul 2019
Before slavery there was the theft of territory from indigenous nations followed in short order by a campaign of genocide. “Though the surrender of the settlers’ nation building project may seem unreasonable, it is precisely what the settlers demanded of America’s indigenous first nations.”
Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal
DSA “Socialism” Conference Features US-Funded Regime Change Activists
10 Jul 2019
The DSA Socialism Conference combines calls for radical economic transformation with demonization of governments targeted for regime change by the US. “One DSA conference panel rails against the socialist governments of Nicaragua and Cuba with outspoken proponents of regime change.” Socialism…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Farewell, Comrade Bruce
10 Jul 2019
Bruce Dixon was anti-empire, anti-capitalist, and a champion of working-class Black America and the people at large. “His organizing expertise is needed now more than ever in a period when leftist organizations are either non-existent, wed to the Democratic Party, or barely functioning.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Bruce Dixon: A Giant Walks On
10 Jul 2019
Our beloved Managing Editor is a permanent presence in BAR and in the people’s struggle for social justice. “He was kind, compassionate, loyal, and humble despite his many achievements.”