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Jon Jeter
Michael Jordan's Sad Legacy as the Plutocrats' Champ, and the Anti-Ali
29 Apr 2020
Ali, the People’s Champ, hurtled into the breach to come to the aid of his community while Jordan did all he could to distance himself. “Jordan turned his back on his tribe, his community and the working class into which he was born.”
Susie Day
Puerto Rico, Protest, Prison: Johanna Fernández and Jose Saldaña on The Young Lords
29 Apr 2020
“There’s something profoundly liberating for people who’ve been told all their lives that they ain’t shit to stand up.” “The Young Lords saved me from a meaningless death.”
Robert Greene II
Debating Black Freedom
29 Apr 2020
Time and again, Black radicals have pressed for an expanded scope of political and economic freedoms, for Americans at home and for people abroad. “Liberator was an important waypoint between resurgent black nationalism and the burgeoning Black Power movement.” Radical Intellect: Liberator…
Granma International Staff
Cuban-Trained Doctor Fights Pandemic in The Bronx
29 Apr 2020
In the South Bronx, Dr Melissa Barber battles COVID-19, putting into practice the lessons she learned in Cuba, at the Latin American School of Medicine. “Dr. Barber has identified the most vulnerable in the neighborhood.” The United States has not been able to control COVID-19. The Donald Trump…
Victoria Law
As Coronavirus Spreads Through Prisons, States Are Failing Incarcerated People
29 Apr 2020
Although prisons have become hot spots of the pandemic, most of the penal overseers have taken only token measures, if any, to evacuate inmates. “If COVID-19 comes into this prison, there is no safe place for anyone.”
Black Oakland Leaders and Allies
Black Oakland Demands in Light of COVID-19 and Rates of Black Death
29 Apr 2020
Unless Black people are healthy and safe then no community is healthy and safe. “The descendants of slaves, Black, African and African-Americans are most impacted by this virus through a racial and class lens.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Candice M. Jenkins’s “Black Bourgeois ”
29 Apr 2020
The zeitgeist of Black literature shifted in the past decade, from Black progress to precarity. “The author hopes readers will gain a clearer sense of how race complicates class for black subjects.”
Dean Spade and Roberto Sirvent, BAR Contributors
BAR Abolition & Mutual Aid Spotlight: Timmy Châu
29 Apr 2020
We need to understand mutual aid work as part and parcel to the work of all radical organizing. “Policing is a necessarily white supremacist and violent system weaponized by the ruling class to contain, maim and murder communities deemed disposable by the state.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
29 Apr 2020
This week readers were thinking about the myths of racial progress, finance capital and primaries, the pandemic in Haiti, and the possibilities of revolution.
Mark P. Fancher
COVID-19 and the War Against Black Detroit
29 Apr 2020
Corporate America and white supremacists have waged merciless war against the Black megapolis that dared to nurture revolutionaries and great music. “For more than 15 years mass water shutoffs were contributing to the spread of a variety of illnesses in largely black neighborhoods.”