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Philippe Gendrault
The Black Struggle and the Future of Humankind
10 Mar 2021
Exploited within the belly of the beast, the struggle for Black emancipation cannot avoid its global ramifications when it comes to ending the hegemon’s domestic violence and global destructiveness. “The rise of English manufacturing and capitalism was indeed promoted from cotton fields the…
Rosa Miriam Elizalde
The Attack That Never Happened: Cuba and the US Fantasy of Sonic Attacks
10 Mar 2021
Renowned Cuban journalist Rosa Miriam Elizalde discusses the long-lasting impact of the US allegation that “sonic attacks” were carried out against US embassy staff. “How could the waves have been perceived by certain people gathered in the same place and not others?”
Amelia Pollard
The Rise of the Private Police
10 Mar 2021
South Africa is leading the way into the horror of policing for profit. “The government itself invests in the firms that are undermining its own authority.”
Marian Jones
What Are Identity Politics? A Vision of Solidarity Rooted in Black Feminism
10 Mar 2021
The CRC never defined identity politics as exclusionary or intended to mean that only those who experience a certain oppression can fight to end it. “If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the…
Jordan Flaherty
Black Civil Rights Lawyer in New Orleans Fights Back Against Exploitative Media Organization
10 Mar 2021
Well-meaning whites think its quite alright to steal Black activists’ words – as long as their intentions are good, which is up to them to decide. “The producers and editors at The Conversation never spoke to Washington or asked her permission to base the name of their podcast after her words…
Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagher
Newly Obtained FBI Files Shed New Light on the Murder of Fred Hampton
10 Mar 2021
That all this time later we are still learning new information about Hampton’s killing is testament to the sheer volume of the effort aimed at this young revolutionary. “This was a masterplan for destroying radical black nationalist groups.”
Rinaldo Walcott
BAR Book Forum: Rinaldo Walcott’s “The Long Emancipation”
10 Mar 2021
“Black freedom” as a claim, as a possibility, challenges us to imagine and to produce new modes of life. “We can conceive of anti-Black racism as the crucially important element of the production of nationalist coloniality in which the Black subject is never able to occupy the site of incorporation…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Amy Cooper’s “State of Health”
10 Mar 2021
Unlike the US and other corporate-ruled countries, activists inside and outside of government collaborated to bring about radical social change in Venezuela. “People viewed the state as a source of immense wealth that rightly belonged to them.”
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
10 Mar 2021
This week Pan Africanism and the Black Panther Party were on your minds. We share your letters for “Black Citizenship Forum: The Roots of Xenophobic Violence in South Africa---A Pan African Response” and “Judas and the Black Messiah: A Missed Opportunity.”
Netfa Freeman and Jemima Pierre
Movements Not Saviors: Lessons from Bobi Wine’s Tweet for Juan Guaido
10 Mar 2021
Bobi Wine’s flirtation with US Venezuelan puppet Juan Guaido indicates that the Ugandan is also auditioning for the imperial puppet job. “A return to the oppressive conditions for the people will be inevitable if a dictator is removed but not the West’s ultimate control.”