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The Jamal Journal staff
Mumia Abu-Jamal's Health Emergency: The Only Treatment is Freedom
17 Mar 2021
An interview with Ricardo Alvarez, Mumia’s “movement” doctor. “The most important point of advocacy is for the release of all our elders in COVID prisons.” Mumia Abu-Jamal, the internationally renowned journalist, Pennsylvania inmate, and former Black Panther widely considered to be a political…
Zophia Edwards
Racial Capitalism and COVID-19
17 Mar 2021
States continue to reproduce inequalities based on race and citizenship through their COVID-19 relief and welfare programs. “Middle-class white support for Donald Trump in the United States and for Brexit in the United Kingdom appears to be driven more by anxieties around preserving their relative…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alison M. Parker’s Book, “Unceasing Militant”
17 Mar 2021
The author explores Mary Church Terrell’s long history of activism, to remind us that movements for social justice do not happen overnight. “Although she was never a member of the Communist Party, Terrell willingly worked with left wing activists.”
L.H. Stallings
BAR Book Forum: L.H. Stallings’s“A Dirty South Manifesto”
17 Mar 2021
Regulation of sexuality in the United States has been predominantly shaped by and largely dependent upon safeguarding or interpreting the First Amendment. “Listen to and refuse to be outraged by the slow tongue, practice the slow tongue, devise different ways of going down, and become connoisseurs…
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
Black Alliance for Peace: We Fight for Haiti Because We Are Haiti
17 Mar 2021
“We stand with the Haitian people because it is our responsibility as believers in self-determination and people-centered human rights, to do so.” “We will never retreat, even when they attempt to confuse us with intersectional imperialism and identity reductionism.”
Mark P. Fancher
Were Jesus and his Followers the First Black Panthers?
17 Mar 2021
“Yeshua (Jesus) instructed his followers to arm themselves for self-defense and to address the community’s survival needs by providing health care, free meals, therapeutic counseling, and of course spiritual guidance.” “Black Christians have the ever-present potential to reclaim a pivotal position…
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…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Prominent Black Lives Matter Activists Stand in Solidarity with Deposed Tigrayan Puppets for US Imperialism
17 Mar 2021
Not only confused white “leftists,” but also Black Lives Matter activists have been conned into mouthing vicious CIA and State Department propaganda against Ethiopia and Eritrea, writes Ann Garrison. “The propaganda used to lure First World leftists to imperialism against the Third World…
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?”