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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Elizabeth Foster’s book, “African Catholic”
04 Mar 2020
The decolonization of Africa, and the determined activism of prominent African Catholics, played an important role in diversifying the church. “Catholic claims to universalism and teachings on the dignity of man provided African believers with the tools to criticize the church’s ties to colonialism…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Joshua Myers’s “We Are Worth Fighting For”
04 Mar 2020
The students imagined a new kind of university and a radical transformation of the world. “They coupled their assault against Republican influence with a call for Black Studies.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
04 Mar 2020
This week you had Joe Biden’s electability, Russiagate, and the challenges of building a new peace movement on your minds.
Joy James
Teaching Theory, Talking Community
04 Mar 2020
For centuries, Indigenous and African peoples in the Americas have theorized for their lives and so collectively crafted a revolutionary praxis. “If the axis of the universe remains the same in reform, what would it mean to revolutionize theory?” Erasure in Academic Theory
Linn Washington Jr
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Smacks Abu-Jamal Again
04 Mar 2020
The Justices used extraordinary authority to delay Mumia’s appeal of his murder conviction. “The request for King's Bench intervention came from the widow of Officer Daniel Faulkner.” Recently the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania again underscored its willingness to impede justice in the…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Ask your doctor if Klobuchar is Right for you
04 Mar 2020
“Klobuchar may cause Serious side effects including dry mouth, blindness, deafness, recurring nightmares and suicidal thoughts… Don’t use Klobuchar if You’re allergic to TARP, white phosphorus, depleted uranium, cluster munitions, sanctions, surges, ghost detainees, enhanced interrogation, coups,…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
California Flags Alienated, Idealistic Kids of Color as Potential Violent Extremists
04 Mar 2020
The program deputizes teachers to spy on students and recruits social service agencies to assemble dossiers on them while providing mental health services. “The state is is lipsticking the pig for federal agencies that rely on racist stereotyping.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Why it is Unlikely Sandernistas Will Catch Russiagate Fever and Why He Should Be Held Accountable Anyway
04 Mar 2020
Bernie Sanders’ rise to frontrunner status has done nothing to challenge the endless wars waged by the US, yet he is sure to face more smears and attacks the more his campaign succeeds. “When his opponents smear him with wild Russiagate charges, Sanders take the bait.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: U.S. Continues Its War on the Rest of the World
04 Mar 2020
The duopoly corporate parties enforce silence and ignorance on foreign policy to ensure that Americans have neither the knowledge nor the tools to resist their country’s policy of endless war. “The average voter seldom thinks about foreign policy for the simple reason that they aren’t asked to do…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Fear Pervades Black Politics, and Makes Us Agents of Our Own Oppression
05 Mar 2020
Many Black voters recoiled in abject terror at the very thought that the Democratic Party – “our” party, in many Black folks’ minds – might fracture under the challenge of the Sandernistas. “The screechingly raucous, out-of-control Democratic debate in Columbia just days before the South Carolina…