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Wilmer J. Leon III
The Hypocrisy of “American Democracy”
15 Apr 2021
The US is the anti-democratic force undermining the will of Venezuelans as the US steals their resources and money. “Why is the US directly working to subvert the “will of the people” in countries around the globe? “In a democracy, force should never seek to overrule the will of the people or…
Riva Enteen
Reality Police Erase Lesbians, Covid-skeptics and Democracy
15 Apr 2021
Corporate reality police have stablished themselves as the authorities on what constitutes “information” or “disinformation.” “Another insidious and oppressive new normal enforced by the Reality Police is that lesbians, and even feminists broadly, must be invisible,” If there be time to expose…
Joseph B. Atkins
Organizing in the South
15 Apr 2021
Strong condemnations from the NAACP and Black Congressional Caucus of Amazon’s treatment of its workers might have made a difference in the strike vote, It took decades before unions successfully organized in the textile industry in the South,”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tracey L. Walters’ “Not Your Mother’s Mammy”
15 Apr 2021
The assumption is these women are uneducated or without skills beyond cleaning or caring for children and adults. “There’s a misconception that these women are uneducated or without skills beyond cleaning or caring for children and adults. “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Walter Johnson’s “The Broken Heart of America”
15 Apr 2021
The Black future is already unfolding under your feet, and the narrow possibility that you might grab ahold of that leading edge of the asphalt and turn it in a different direction. “I hope people will un-learn either/or Race-or-Class binarism.”
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
15 Apr 2021
This week the war in Afghanistan was on your minds. We share your letters for “Biden-Harris Look Ready to Keep U.S. In Afghanistan—Say No!”
Adofo Minka
Spirit of Self-Emancipation Continues to Rise at the St. Louis City Justice Center
15 Apr 2021
Like Christ on the third day, detainees in St. Louis jails have risen to challenge state oppression. “Apparently, Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner fights racism by sustaining it, while presiding over the mass incarceration of hundreds of inmates, a majority of who are poor and Black.”
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Murder of Daunte Wright Ruined Derek Chauvin Show Trial
15 Apr 2021
The Black-murder-by-cop next door to Minneapolis shows the world the dehumanization that is built into the white supremacist DNA of settler-colonialism will continue to produce crimes against our collective humanity. “The murder of George Floyd was no more an aberration in U.S. society than…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Reese Piece…
15 Apr 2021
Salute to City of Angels’ son! He wrote, he wrote, he wrote And he wrote… Ramparts, The Progressive, The Nation, Mother Jones, Dateline Havana, 48 hills… Oakland 7 anti-draft defendant He wrote, he wrote, he wrote And he wrote… Untangling silly putty propaganda of swollen multibillionaire media—…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Fordham University Is One of Many Canaries in the Zionist Coal Mine
15 Apr 2021
A Blacklist against those who oppose Israeli policies is now in effect at Fordham University, and can be expected to grow. The students’ filed the first lawsuit in the country that challenged censorship of students advocating for Palestinian rights.”