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George Yancy
Reaching Beyond “Black Faces in High Places”: An Interview With Joy James
03 Feb 2021
White supremacist culture is a permanent site of predatory consumption, extraction and violation. “Black masses are consistently told by the Black elite pundits, academics, nonprofit leaders or movement specialists to stay in line and follow.” With the advent of the Biden administration, it’s a…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Conspiracy theory 47
03 Feb 2021
It wasn’t led by lineage of Robert E. Lee— it was nuts demanding healthcare for free! It wasn’t a lynch mob, a putsch, or a coup— what good does divisive descriptions do? It wasn’t badges, ‘Bama to Boston, Cali to Idaho— it was common citizens resisting the status quo It wasn’t sergeant, senator,…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World, August, 1920
03 Feb 2021
As part of our mission to supplement BAR’s historical perspective, the Black Agenda Review examines the Harlem meeting and manifesto that shook the Black world, a century ago. “Garvey’s militancy, his global vision, his unapologetically pro-Black, pro-African stance, and his demands for Black…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Joe Biden is a White Supremacist War Hawk, Too
03 Feb 2021
No one in the Biden camp has spoken out against the past, present, and future war crimes which will undoubtedly shape the administration. “The war on Black America is the seed from which the U.S. empire has grown to be an international force of racist terror.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Never Ending COVID Crisis
03 Feb 2021
Profits determine the US response to a health care crisis, so Americans are in trouble regardless of who occupies the White House. “Joe Biden declared that there is nothing he can do about the disease trajectory.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Nightmare Years Will Repeat Themselves – Until the People Kick Out the Cabal
04 Feb 2021
To take on the corporate imperial racial capitalist state, we need a Black-led movement that puts politics in command and names the Democratic perpetrators and collaborators that are culpable in the unfolding, late-stage capitalist disaster. “If the people don’t directly challenge the oligarchy,…
Margaret Flowers
Popular Resistance: The Anti-War Movement Must Not Go Back to Sleep Under Biden
10 Feb 2021
Biden has chosen the most diverse group of war mongers and torture supporters the nation has ever had. “Biden is seeking to reestablish US global domination that faltered under Trump.”
Caitlin Johnstone
Electoral Politics Use The Same Containment Strategies As Alzheimer’s Facilities
10 Feb 2021
The US electoral system is like a dementia facility run by Democratic Party staff members pretending to want the same thing we want. “It’s a locked facility.”
Mya Shone
The Vaccine Distribution Crisis: Capitalism in its Death Agony
10 Feb 2021
The hoarding of existing supply and the refusal to create a vast public infrastructure capable of producing and distributing COVID-19 vaccines are inherent consequences of capitalism. “Every day that passes, the divide grows larger between the world’s haves and have-nots.”
Minkah Makalani
Cedric Robinson and the Origins of Race
10 Feb 2021
An examination Robinson’s body of work can enrich our understanding of racial capitalism and offer additional tools for overcoming our political impasse. “Black radicalism suggests a poetics that can be found in the generative potential of human interaction, with all its historical contingencies…