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Jeff Bryant
Exposing the Motive for the Sudden Wave of Attacks on Schools That Teach Critical Race Theory
09 Jun 2021
What appears to be a dispute about academics is really a political tactic in the ongoing campaign to privatize public schools. “The people behind all these bills are overwhelmingly white, wealthier folks.”
Pascal Robert
The Great “Awokening” and Ruling Class Uses for Racial Grievance Discourse
09 Jun 2021
The Black political class is wedded to the centrist Democrats for its “fatback and biscuits” patronage. “Racism is the linchpin tool in keeping capitalism functioning in America.”
Tiffany N. Florvil
BAR Book Forum: Tiffany N. Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany”
09 Jun 2021
Black History Month strengthened Black German claims of kinship with their nation and the larger diaspora. “Black Germans showed that Berlin and Germany were not monoracial or homogenously white, only constructed as such.”
Rachel Afi Quinn
BAR Book Forum: Rachel Afi Quinn’s “Being La Dominicana”
09 Jun 2021
Dominican racial logic frequently contradicts what US scholars think they know about how race works. “Every day decisions have to be made about what aspect of one’s identity would dominate at which moment.”
Joy James
“New Bones” Abolitionism, Communism, and Captive Maternals
09 Jun 2021
Joy James uses poet Lucille Clifton's image of “new bones” to reflect on a series of revolutionary anniversaries in 2021 and the nature of political leadership. “Elites do not invest in popular mechanisms that could replace them.” For the fearful bravely laughing as we fall into liberation…
Taytu Bitul
How to Wreck a Black Nation In the Age of “Black Lives Matter”
09 Jun 2021
Today’s colonialists recruit Black politicians and Black terrorist groups who are willing to play along. “The ‘poor hapless victim TPLF’ narrative quickly evolved into the ‘genocide in Tigray’ narrative.”
Too Black
From Black Wall Street to Black Capitalism
09 Jun 2021
Contrary to the Black capitalist myth, most Greenwood residents were low wage working people employed by whites and living in substandard housing. “It was the super-exploitation of poor Black labor that facilitated both the function of Tulsa as a whole and the Black Wall Street District.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Ladee Blu: Another Monroe Doctrine delivery system
09 Jun 2021
Raytheon’s craven raven Co-signing for mass murder: “Mowing the grass…” Now… Ladee Blu on a fool’s errand dis- seminating The Monroe Doctrine—this is what Black faces in high places look like: CAPITAL FLOWS AS IT PLEASES. EXTRACTIVE AND RAPACIOUS, IT CROSSES BORDERS WHEN IT WISHES. BUT YOU—LABOR—…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
TRANSCRIPT: Gerald Horne: Haiti and African Liberation in the Americas
09 Jun 2021
The Haitian Revolution was not only a victory for the millions of enslaved Africans in the Americas, it was a victory for all working class people.” “Abolitionist Haiti was the main campaigner against enslavement of Africans before 1888, when the enslavement process came to a kind of halt in Brazil…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Corporate Think Tank Reveals How Profit-Driven Motives Drive New Cold War against China
09 Jun 2021
The same report paradoxically acknowledges the failure of the economic model the U.S. has tried to impose on the rest of the world. “The Biden administration and its allies have been just as aggressive as Trump in their attempts to forestall China’s technological development.”