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Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
“This is a Crime Scene:” An African Artist/Activist Journey, Part I
22 Jul 2020
An interview with Dr. Karen Wilson- Ama’Echefu. “As a singer and storyteller, bearing the culture that had raised me as a way of teaching history.”
Don Fitz
A Statue of Hatuey
22 Jul 2020
Hatuey led the first guerrilla warfare against European invasion of the western hemisphere. “I would rather burn in hell forever than spend one day in paradise with Spaniards.”
The Public Archive
Black Struggle and the New Society: An interview with C.L.R. James
22 Jul 2020
In a 1977 interview, the renowned Trinidadian writer, historian and socialist assessed the state of Black struggle in the Caribbean, the United States and Africa. “The big debate is taking place between racialism, nationalism and Marxism.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: LaShawn Harris’s “Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners”
22 Jul 2020
Underground labor allowed many women to sustain themselves and the people and religious institutions that they cared about. “A diverse cross section of New York black women and girls entered underground employment markets for a variety of reasons.”
troizel d.l. carr
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
22 Jul 2020
Required reading for black study and abolition: a syllabus for an abolitionista on the run. “Abolition requires an ongoing radical belief in the impossible.” In this series we ask organizers, artists, and academics to share books that inform their thinking about abolition. This week’s contributor…
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
22 Jul 2020
This week voting in November and the crisis of the Democratic Party was on your mind. We share your letters for “Democrats Will Never Choose Transformative Change – So Give Them No Choice” and “Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: Dump the Democrats.”
Carrie Freshour
Poultry and Prisons: Toward a General Strike for Abolition
22 Jul 2020
Poultry-processing plants are critical sites of racial capitalist accumulation produced through an unequal valuation of people and places. “People cannot be released from prisons only to be put on the streets or to premature disability at the poultry.”
Earl Hazell
Essays on The Cult of White Feminism: Dial M for Bernie
22 Jul 2020
Bernie exposed the white supremacist and imperialist contradictions of white feminism to the disinfecting sunlight of reason. “White feminism was never concerned about the overwhelming majority of the world’s women in the first place.” To Bern or Not to Bern – Take 1 I certainly…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Third Reich Quick Strike: low Barr-Boss Tweet
22 Jul 2020
I remember when they used to play Round ‘em up—bang-bang, baby; I remember when they used to chase Schoolboys—beat ‘em up, lock ‘em up I remember Geronimo’s wife, Sandra Pratt, aka Red Found faraway in a gutter, gunshot wounds to the head—dead Melvin X, BSA leader of Fred-Bunchy and John ilk Found…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
What Are Trump and His Goons Up To?
22 Jul 2020
That’s the question I asked policing and privacy expert Tracy Rosenberg, Executive Director of Media Alliance, and coordinator of Oakland Privacy. Ann Garrison: What do you think Trump and his goons might be up to in Portland and the cities with "liberal Democratic mayors" that he's…