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Jim Daley
Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests
17 Mar 2021
A new study shows police homicides have significantly decreased in most cities where BLM-type protests occurred. “Police killings fell by 16.8 percent on average in municipalities that had BLM protests, compared with those that did not.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
No mo’ Cuomo? (Kind of an apology)
17 Mar 2021
Kind of an apology: To the 15,000 families it was never personal— It was always business… To the 5 Families Q2 was better than Q1 Q4 better than Q3—though not reflecting Family Values To the people of The Big Apple who lost loved ones while lockdown-less: Petty politics and ego got in the way and…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Black Citizenship Forum: On Identity and Empire: France and the Colonial Roots of Black Citizenship
17 Mar 2021
You cannot simply declare yourself race free, racism free, and simply think that it will generate a race free or colorblind society. “How do you fight racism in a land where racism obviously exists, but race is not accepted as a category?”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
New Cold War is Built on Humanitarian Interventionist Lies and Dismissal of Actual War Crimes
17 Mar 2021
To manufacture consent for its own constant aggressions the US claims its competitors are guilty of even greater crimes – sheer inventions that never happened. “Humanitarian interventionist lies represent the most dangerous form of misinformation currently fueling the U.S.’s New Cold War.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Ending Poverty in the United States
17 Mar 2021
President Franklin Roosevelt made profound changes in the US political-economic structure, while Joe Biden only does temporary patchwork on the late-stage capitalist carcass. “There isn’t even a pretense of ending poverty in the United States.” The propaganda campaign is in high gear on…
Reviewed by Michael Steven Smith
Bruce Levine’s “Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice“
24 Mar 2021
Rep Thaddeus Stevens was an unyielding proponent of the nationalization of the large southern plantations and the redistribution of that land to Black people. “It was clear to Stevens that the North could not win the war against the slave owners without the participation of former slaves…
Dr. David Pleasant
That New Old Spook Show
24 Mar 2021
Savannah is is trying to create a renaissance of profit with live bodies portraying Gullah Geechee, enslaved Africans or immigrant indentures plodding through a mod-gothic spook show. “Tragic political and cultural history is paired with ghosts, ghouls, fried food and zombies.”
Franklin Frederick
Cuba’s Contributions in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic
24 Mar 2021
The Cuban Revolution has shown that when limited resources are distributed equitably and with an emphasis on people and prevention, public health outcomes previously unimaginable can be achieved. “Income generated by vaccine sales abroad will pay for healthcare, education, and pensions in Cuba.” “…
Sara Abbas
Sudan: the Second Wave of Revolt
24 Mar 2021
The not-yet-triumphant Sudan popular uprising was both sophisticated and thorough; it tried to learn from past mistakes and internalize lessons from revolutions of the first wave and elsewhere. “By 2012 all hope for reform by the regime had been lost.”
Dr. Kweli Nzito
Is Systemic Racism a True Indicator of Cowardice?
24 Mar 2021
The craven fear of truth in imperial zones, bordering on psychopathic dread, has sustained systemic racism and hegemonic power domestically and globally. “In America especially, the false promotion of democracy, the rule of law and human rights, do not tally with realities at home or abroad.”