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  • Reckoning With Slavery: What a Revolt’s Archives Tells Us About Who Owns the Past
    Marjoleine Kars
    Reckoning With Slavery: What a Revolt’s Archives Tells Us About Who Owns the Past
    10 Dec 2020
    Writing one’s own history is an act of emancipation. “Former slaves organized a government and controlled most of the colony.” The consequences of 400 years of the Atlantic slave trade are still felt today. Untangling the power structures and systemic racism that came with slavery is ongoing, with…
  • Hierarchies of Modern Western Colonialism
    Dr. Kweli Nzito
    Hierarchies of Modern Western Colonialism
    10 Dec 2020
    Imperialists continue to exercise control of former colonies from the comfort of their metropolises as their former subjects appear resigned to their post-colonial fates. “The budding stages of colonialism witnessed the quick obliteration of indigenous languages for formal communication.”
  • The Right to Live in Health and Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution: A Review 
    Kelly Urban
    The Right to Live in Health and Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution: A Review 
    10 Dec 2020
    Cuban medical professionals created a project to join science and statecraft and secure health as a fundamental right of citizenship. “There are deep historical roots to the island’s twenty-first century medical exceptionalism.”
  • Secret Amazon Reports Expose the Company’s Surveillance of Labor and Environmental Groups
    Lauren Kaori Gurley
    Secret Amazon Reports Expose the Company’s Surveillance of Labor and Environmental Groups
    10 Dec 2020
    Dozens of leaked documents from Amazon reveal the company’s use of Pinkerton operatives to spy on warehouse workers, labor unions and social movements. “Amazon intelligence agents track the online activity of workers leading organizing efforts.”
  • Lynchings By Law
    Aaron Greene
    Lynchings By Law
    10 Dec 2020
    The Trump administration plans to execute five people before there is a change of power. “The death penalty is the ultimate human rights violation.”
  • BAR Book Forum: B. Brian Foster’s “I Don’t Like the Blues”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: B. Brian Foster’s “I Don’t Like the Blues”
    10 Dec 2020
    What happens if we really pay attention to what black folks in the rural South are saying and doing in their everyday lives? “Black folks are hopeful and optimistic, but they are also frustrated, skeptical, and exhausted.”
  • BAR Book Forum: Shiloh Krupar’s “Hot Spotter’s Report”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Shiloh Krupar’s “Hot Spotter’s Report”
    10 Dec 2020
    The U.S. military claims it is “green,” but what the Pentagon is really trying to prove is the planetary sustainability of war. “How we can foster care, accountability, and the right to self-determination through means other than such forms of militarized sovereignty?”
  • Letters from Our Readers
    BAR Comments Editor Jahan Choudhry
    Letters from Our Readers
    10 Dec 2020
    This week the role of US elites in controlling resistance by Ugandans and Black Americans were on your minds. We share your letters for “BLM Chapters Demand ‘Accountability’ from Trio that Cashed in on the Movement” and “Uganda’s Youth Majority Brave Police Blockades and Bullets to Rally Behind…
  • What Does the Esau Revolution Despise?
    Don Fitz
    What Does the Esau Revolution Despise?
    10 Dec 2020
    The Democrats’ relentless suppression of the Green Party affected the mind-set of more voters than all the right-wing howls put together. “The birthright of the left is to inspire people with our dreams – just as progressive visions have motivated mass movements for two centuries.” “And…
  • Silencing Black Radicalism Since the Cold War 
    Denise Lynn
    Silencing Black Radicalism Since the Cold War 
    10 Dec 2020
    Anti-communists used the full powers of the state to silence, imprison, or deport radical Black activists. “Harmless ideas like ‘peace and progress’ could be transformed into treasonous conspiracies.”

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