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Robin D.G. Kelley
Why Cornel West’s Tenure Fight Matters
10 Mar 2021
Harvard’s administrators completely miss the point of tenure, which was created to allow scholars to do their work, speak their truth, and stand up for something without risking their jobs. “It never occurred to me that Harvard would bring Cornel West back as a contract laborer.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Meet me at Mary’s Place…
10 Mar 2021
“…he said if you can enjoy A real nice affair (Over at Mary's place—oh) Then you'll make it Your business to be right there… (Over at Mary's place— oh)” —Sam Cooke All her friends were brilliant. Brilliant bakers, bus drivers, plumbers, poets, professors, lawyers, filmmakers,…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: African LGBTI Manifesto/Declaration, April 18, 2010
10 Mar 2021
The manifesto claimed the LGBTI struggle as an indelible and urgent part of the history of Pan-Africanism and the ongoing movements for Black sovereignty. “As long as African LGBTI people are oppressed, the whole of Africa is oppressed.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Keep Victoire Ingabire in Your Hearts
10 Mar 2021
Victoire risked her life to establish that Hutu people were also killed by the Tutsi army, before, during, and after the Rwanda genocide, writes Ann Garrison. “The people of the Democratic Republic of Congo must be the first beneficiaries of their resources."
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Anti-Asian Racism Never Stopped Being an Outgrowth of U.S. Imperialism
10 Mar 2021
Scant attention has been placed on the context of anti-Asian racism and its roots in the history of U.S. imperialism. “The rise of China has placed the hegemony of U.S. imperialism into question on the highest stage possible.” “Gimme that ball, gook.” “Can you see with those eyes, chink…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Trump/Biden Foreign Policy
10 Mar 2021
Biden rules like Trump regarding Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Haiti, because the two imperial parties serve the same masters. “The U.S. continues its tradition of keeping puppets in power like Jovenel Moise, in Haiti.”
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.”