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Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
21 Apr 2021
This week pro-Zionist censorship and police brutality were on your minds. We share your letters for “Fordham University Is One of Many Canaries in the Zionist Coal Mine” and “Murder of Daunte Wright Ruined Derek Chauvin Show Trial.”
Eric Umansky
What Police Impunity Looks Like
21 Apr 2021
They came into his own home and took his life for no reason. “As officers converged on the scene where Trawick lay lifeless, two of them told a sergeant that ‘nobody’ had been hurt. ‘Just a perp.’
Ujima People’s Progress Party
The Black Working Class Must Defend Itself, Not the Black Misleadership Class
21 Apr 2021
Black political power is gained by expanding independent Black political institutions and bases around agendas not endorsed by the ruling elite. “Our critiques must be firmly rooted in the concrete class antagonisms Black workers have with Black elected officials who marginalize Black…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Trauma Trivia
21 Apr 2021
We play America’s longest running game, Trauma Trivia—gambling blue— Daily, weekly, monthly, annually—decades, Centuries at a time…We play it again and Again and again and again… and… again… We play: Legal Lynching Blues For 10: Name the cop whose tatted arm snuffed out Eric…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Return to the Source: Trayvon Martin and White Madness, July 18, 2013
21 Apr 2021
Black people cannot change white people’s warped perceptions of the world, although, Lord knows, we’ve tried. “White folks in general do not think it is racist or evidence of malice to believe that Black males are a prima facie threat; it’s just a fact.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Pacifica Radio: Let’s Talk About the Debt
21 Apr 2021
It’s difficult not to imagine that the secret plan is to sell WBAI’s license. “Most people support Pacifica because it’s community radio.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
China and Africa: the Black Alliance for Peace’s AFRICOM Watch Bulletin
21 Apr 2021
Those that call China a colonizer of Africa don’t understand colonization. “US corporate media have called China a ‘new colonizer’ in Africa so many times it has been digested as truth.” The following interview was published on April 8th as part of Black Alliance for Peace’s AFRICOM Watch Bulletin…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Gun Violence Starts at the Top
21 Apr 2021
If the state reserves the right to commit mass murder no one should be surprised that the people follow suit. “No one should be surprised when a well-armed population makes use of their personal arsenals.”
By Jessica Parr
The MOVE Bombing and the Callous Handling of Black Remains
28 Apr 2021
The 1985 MOVE bombing by the Philadelphia Police shocked and devastated a city, leaving destruction that killed 11 people, including 5 children, leveled 61 homes, and rendered over 250 Philadelphians homeless. The bombing, occurring just two days after a shootout involving police, used an…
Alice Speri
The Defund the Police Movement Takes Aim at Fusion Centers and Mass Surveillance
28 Apr 2021
LEGISLATORS IN MAINE could vote as early as next week on the first bill in the country seeking to shut down a fusion center: the intelligence-sharing partnerships between local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, as well as private sector groups, that proliferated following the post-…