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Mireille Fanon Mendes France
Can We Listen to the Voice of the Haitian People?
17 Mar 2021
The West’s treatment of Haiti confirms that white supremacy has still not abandoned its plan to impose a racially racist, violent, capitalist and imperial world order. “The Haitian people are right to fear the abuses of a president who constantly destroys the legislative apparatus and who…
Lucas M. Koerner
Who’s Afraid of Hugo Chávez? Race, Empire, and Chavismo’s Revolutionary Subjectivity
17 Mar 2021
What is it about Chávez and the national-popular movement bearing his name that is so threatening to the US Empire to this day? “Embodying at once the ‘red’ and ‘black’ scares, Venezuela is cast as a global socialist narco-terrorist ‘superpredator’ capable of stealing the 2020 election as well as ‘…
Abdirahman A. Abdalla
The Somali Election Impasse in Historical Context
17 Mar 2021
Somalia’s current corruptionist comprador bourgeoisie has no independent socio-political base and is therefore totally beholden to Western imperialist interests. “The country’s enormous untapped oil wealth and its crucial geographical location at the intersection of the Red Sea, the Gulf of…
Anoa Changa
More Surveillance Won’t Stop White Supremacy -- It Will Target Activists of Color
17 Mar 2021
Violence from people of color and other marginalized groups – or even simply fear of such violence -- is dealt with immediately and with the harshest of consequences. “The FBI umbrella term ‘racially motivated violent extremist’ lumps Black and other organizers of color with white nationalists.”
The Jamal Journal staff
Mumia Abu-Jamal's Health Emergency: The Only Treatment is Freedom
17 Mar 2021
An interview with Ricardo Alvarez, Mumia’s “movement” doctor. “The most important point of advocacy is for the release of all our elders in COVID prisons.” Mumia Abu-Jamal, the internationally renowned journalist, Pennsylvania inmate, and former Black Panther widely considered to be a political…
Zophia Edwards
Racial Capitalism and COVID-19
17 Mar 2021
States continue to reproduce inequalities based on race and citizenship through their COVID-19 relief and welfare programs. “Middle-class white support for Donald Trump in the United States and for Brexit in the United Kingdom appears to be driven more by anxieties around preserving their relative…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alison M. Parker’s Book, “Unceasing Militant”
17 Mar 2021
The author explores Mary Church Terrell’s long history of activism, to remind us that movements for social justice do not happen overnight. “Although she was never a member of the Communist Party, Terrell willingly worked with left wing activists.”
L.H. Stallings
BAR Book Forum: L.H. Stallings’s“A Dirty South Manifesto”
17 Mar 2021
Regulation of sexuality in the United States has been predominantly shaped by and largely dependent upon safeguarding or interpreting the First Amendment. “Listen to and refuse to be outraged by the slow tongue, practice the slow tongue, devise different ways of going down, and become connoisseurs…
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
Black Alliance for Peace: We Fight for Haiti Because We Are Haiti
17 Mar 2021
“We stand with the Haitian people because it is our responsibility as believers in self-determination and people-centered human rights, to do so.” “We will never retreat, even when they attempt to confuse us with intersectional imperialism and identity reductionism.”
Mark P. Fancher
Were Jesus and his Followers the First Black Panthers?
17 Mar 2021
“Yeshua (Jesus) instructed his followers to arm themselves for self-defense and to address the community’s survival needs by providing health care, free meals, therapeutic counseling, and of course spiritual guidance.” “Black Christians have the ever-present potential to reclaim a pivotal position…