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Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
19 Dec 2019
This week readers discussed police brutality and the Trump impeachment proceedings. We share your letters for “Liberalism Will Get Us Killed,” “Many Blacks Would Welcome Police Exit From Their Communities,” and “The Issue-Less
April Anson
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
08 Jan 2020
Author Gerald Horne demonstrates that modernity arrived in the 17th century on the three horsemen of the apocalypse: slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism. “Horne makes clear that transnational solidarity is as old as colonialism and remains the greatest opponent of transnational…
From Enzo Calandra and Jelani Cobb
Two Views on Queen & Slim
08 Jan 2020
The film is either “a meditation on a system of justice that treats innocent people as outlaws,” or “a bourgeois representation of the struggle against police oppression.” The Problem With Queen & Slim by Enzo Calandra
Netfa Freeman
The US Surges Into A Police State While Media White Out Structural Racism
08 Jan 2020
Trump wants to “surge” against urban Black and brown Americans in the same way that the US surged against Iraq and Afghanistan. “No matter how many cases of murderous police brutality there are, each is treated like an isolated incident.” If withholding US military aid from a neo-Nazi friendly…
Leonard C. Goodman
Assange and Manning are Being Persecuted for Speaking Truth to Power
08 Jan 2020
Had WikiLeaks existed in 2002, a patriotic officer like Chelsea Manning might have leaked the official intelligence reports and stopped a war. “Assange's actions were no different than the actions of the New York Times and the Guardian.” The most important stories of the year for…
Wilmer J. Leon III
Will the Assassination of Gen. Soleimani Be Trump’s 1914 Moment?
08 Jan 2020
It appears that lies and/or false narratives are being used to rationalize this latest heinous act that may also result in another senseless war. “One must ask Speaker Pelosi and the 188 Democrats that joined the GOP about handing Trump a $738B military budget devoid of the bipartisan…
Kevin Alexander Gray
The Soul Will Find a Way
08 Jan 2020
Even in the era of the “African-American” tag, there’s no shaking black – because James Brown made it cool to be black. “Brown made bad good and then declared himself ‘Superbad.’”
Alaina Morgan
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
08 Jan 2020
The question of where to search for the histories of Black people in the diaspora, is of paramount importance. “Freedom and unfreedom are not binaries.”
Erica Caines
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
08 Jan 2020
Black adults must not allow “Hollywood to fill in the blanks” in our children’s understanding of Black history. “We are in a time where individualism is encouraged over community.”
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
The Anti-War Movement is Fired Up!
08 Jan 2020
It is imperative that the antiwar movement grows exponentially very quickly and becomes a major force in 2020. “The US is losing imperial power and cannot continue to be a bully that violates international law.”