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Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Solidarity with Moms 4 Housing
15 Jan 2020
Black women in Oakland confronted the austerity regime head-on, by seizing the housing their families need. “Hopefully this tactic will spread and others will take the same action.” The four women in Oakland, California known as Moms 4 Housing have been evicted from the home they seized…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
MLK and the Black Misleadership Class
16 Jan 2020
Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday is the greatest sheer spectacle of hypocrisy and historical duplicity of the year, as Black misleaders take center stage to claim his mandate and mission on behalf of a corporate party. “While Dr. King rejected an alliance with the ‘triple evils,’ Black Democratic…
Anna Wolfe and Michelle Liu
Want Out of Jail? First You Have to Take a Fast Food Job
22 Jan 2020
The convict labor system was once notorious in Mississippi – and it still is, under the guise of debt restitution. “Many inmates have no idea how much money they are accumulating or how long it will take to pay their way out.” During her shifts at a Church’s Chicken, Annita Husband looked like the…
Archishman Raju
Huey P. Newton and Martin Luther King Jr.: Revolutionary Love and Unity
22 Jan 2020
Both Newton and King sought to create a united front for peace and socialism. “Both refused to be dogmatic and creatively synthesized ideas to apply them in their struggle.”
Aaron J. Leonard
In Anti-Communist Fervor, FBI Built a 500-Page File on Coretta Scott King
22 Jan 2020
Scott King was spied on constantly by the FBI – surveillance that was authorized by the Kings’ “friends,” the Kennedy brothers. “The bureau was fixated on determining whether she and her husband were consorting with or being influenced by Communists.”
Francisco Dominguez
Venezuela: A Successful Year of Resistance
22 Jan 2020
Washington’s strategy throughout 2019 was aimed at bringing about chaos and mayhem sufficient to justify US military intervention. “The Bolivarian socio-economic model is structured to defend the poorest and most vulnerable.” The failure of Juan Guaido to be re-elected as president of the…
Michelle Alexander
The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an "Aberration"
22 Jan 2020
Yes, Trump is an inveterate liar, but American politicians have always told lies about the Black and brown people they demonize and mass-imprison. “Highly racialized and punitive systems thrived under liberal presidents who were given the benefit of the doubt by those who might otherwise have…
Steve Nathans-Kelly
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
22 Jan 2020
White supremacist Democrats staged a military assault on the last bastion of biracial government in the South, killing scores of Blacks and driving thousands out of North Carolina’s largest city. “White supremacy consolidated its power through political calculation, racist defamation, intimidation…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Aydogan Kars’ “Unsaying God“
22 Jan 2020
Islam’s association in the West with “terror” makes it nearly impossible Islamic theology as a force for racial or social justice. “Medieval Islamic theology was a pluralistic field of rich discussions full of original ideas.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Margaret Kimberley’s “Prejudential”
22 Jan 2020
The history of enslavement and American apartheid segregation has permanently disfigured politics in this country. “Abraham Lincoln hoped to win the war and then send black people out of the country.”