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David A Bell
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
09 Sep 2020
The fierce fighter against slavery defeated European armies but died in a cold French prison. “Only in the past quarter-century has the Haitian revolution attracted sustained scholarly attention in North America and Europe.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jasmine Mitchell‘s “Imagining the Mulatta”
09 Sep 2020
The mulatta serves as a strategy of containment of Blackness through logics of racial management. “Racial mixing does not solve racism and we do not need to hope for a distant future of racelessness.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: R.A. Judy’s Book, “Sentient Flesh”
09 Sep 2020
The long tradition of radical black critique in popular forms of expression gives us material on which to model our re-imagining of the world. ‘With these performances of poiēsis in black, we make the leap of invention Fanon called for.’
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
09 Sep 2020
This week the Democratic Party presidential ticket was on your minds. We share your letters for “'Kamala Auntie': On the Vulgarity of Bourgeois Identity Politics in 2020” and “Biden Offers Nothing But More War, Austerity and White Supremacy - Without Trump.”
Black is Back Coalition
Join the Black Peoples March on Trump’s White House -- Just Like We Did Obama’s
09 Sep 2020
The Black Power Matters March directs us to fight against colonialism, for Black Community Control of the Police, and for a Black Agenda for Self-Determination. “They assault Africa confidently based on the assumption of no opposing constituency within the U.S.”
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Kevin Zeese, the Passing of a Warrior for Peace and Justice
09 Sep 2020
The human rights community mourns veteran activist Kevin Zeese, my friend and comrade. “He stood his ground and left an indelible mark in our memory and the landscape of the fight for human decency and liberation of the human spirit.” “For the Anniversary of My Death” by W.S. Merwin…
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Olympics of Lying: Lipsticking a pig
09 Sep 2020
Red, white, blue burning crosses light up Capitalist Hill, War House, White Supreme Court sky. A 500 ft phallic symbol middle fingers poor People pinned down resisting crossfire: Pandemic, Depression, Mengele Medicine… It’s the Orange Age Olympics of Lying! Let the games begin—again and…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
It’s Time to Acknowledge Hutu Genocide and Rwandan Occupation of DR Congo
09 Sep 2020
“Global power elites are silent about Hutu genocide and Rwanda’s ongoing occupation of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),” writes Ann Garrison, “because it has served their interests for many years." “The truth would embarrass them.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The NBA Strike Brings the Counterinsurgency War on Black Liberation Movement to Basketball
09 Sep 2020
When NBA players threatened to disrupt business as usual the ruling class deployed perhaps its most effective weapon of counterinsurgency: Barack Obama. “The system is organized to strangle movements before they emerge.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Losers, Suckers and War
09 Sep 2020
Democrats are up in arms over Trump’s latest mouth-burst, but the truth is that both corporate parties have made the people suckers for endless, “bipartisan” wars. “The suckers were always those who could not get out of military service when there was still a draft.’