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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ana-Maurine Lara’s “Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty” and “Streetwalking”
02 Dec 2020
The author wants us to deepen our analysis of how power moves through the world to constrain Black life, and how queer Black people resist these constraints. “This book reiterates that there are communities all over the world who are mobilizing resources, stories, and…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jessica Gordon Nembhard’s “Collective Courage”
02 Dec 2020
Many of the great African American thinkers, movers, and shakers were also leaders in the Black cooperative movement. “Co-ops help to anchor economic activity in a community and keep resources recirculating in communities.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
02 Dec 2020
This week the ideological education of the working class, the need for socialism, and the aims of a Biden administration were on your minds. We share your letters for “V.I. Lenin and W.E.B. Du Bois: Class Struggle and Civilization,” “’America’ Doesn’t Need Healing.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
"Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens" Demonstrates the Depths of New Cold War Propaganda against China
02 Dec 2020
In the season finale, the liberal mask comes off and the program morphs into a screed for the U.S.’s New Cold War on China. “Racism toward Asian Americans has intensified in the U.S. in conjunction with a massive anti-China propaganda campaign led by the corporate media.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
People Power (Or 30 min. men and women every 4 yrs?)
02 Dec 2020
The People earned a dancing in the streets day, horn honking, slogan shouting day—collective sigh/exhale of relief day…Yes, The People deserve A day of celebration— just remember: It took 71 searing street heat days—Amazons of tears, Mississippis of blood, bowling alleys of eyeballs/…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Will This Be the Radicalization of Black Lives Matter?
02 Dec 2020
Ten Black Lives Matter chapters are demanding that those who have amassed millions of dollars in the movement’s name submit to both a financial and political accounting. “It is clear that the chapters raising questions about BLM from the frontlines are doing so not out of a desire to destroy but to…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
The Black Agenda Review: A Manifesto of First Principles
02 Dec 2020
The Black Agenda Review will function as a weekly supplement to the regular editorial content of the Black Agenda Report. “The Review will be proactive in outlining and examining the themes, topics, and debates of concern to the Black radical left.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Israel and the U.S. Assassinate Peace
02 Dec 2020
Israel and Saudi Arabia are doing everything in their power to prevent Biden from rejoining the nuclear agreement -- and Biden’s team has nothing to say. “The goal is to show the world that Israel can do what it wants with impunity.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Ethiopia: Civil War and Nation Building in the 21st Century
02 Dec 2020
In light of the Ethiopian central government’s military clash with regional forces in Tigray province, Ann Garrison speaks with a member of the Oromo people, the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia. “The U.S. government’s narrow mindedness about stability limits possibilities for alternative…
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
BLM Chapters Demand “Accountability” from Trio that Cashed in on the Movement
03 Dec 2020
Ten chapters of the national Black Lives Matter organization are in open revolt against the individuals that have treated the mass movement as their personal vehicle for upward political, professional and financial advancement. “The BLMGNF became the principal beneficiary of millions…