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Erica Caines
The Class Collaboration of “Justice”
29 Apr 2021
After the guilty verdict, the clarity that was collectively growing became squandered with the words “it’s not justice, it’s accountability.” “The Black petty-bourgeoisie have established enclaves around themselves using one another’s platforms to avoid directly addressing the Black masses they…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Justice was served from Warfare States’ gaslit woks
29 Apr 2021
Justice was served sweet and sour in pepper spray soup—tear- gas gumbo—tears mixed with milk and milk of magnesia in crimson curry sauce; Served from warfare states’ woks on beds of ‘rubber’ bullets/flash-bang grenades Justice was served on baton-bruised ribs; golfball-sized wounds; contusions,…
An Interview with Johanna Fernandez
Mumia Abu-Jamal: State Running Scared, Trying to Make Sure He Dies in Prison
29 Apr 2021
Mumia’s case always raises larger questions about the barbarism of the criminal justice system. “The state wants to make an example of people who resist the state to send a message that this is what might happen to you.” Ann Garrison: Mumia has finally had the open-heart surgery that his…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL:ON THE MOVE: The MOVE Organization and the Teachings of John Africa, June 28 and July 1, 1975
29 Apr 2021
The MOVE organization’s protests provoked some of the most intense forms of police brutality and repression witnessed in the country. “Politicians who build armies to so-called police one country from the invasion of another, ignore the cries of police brutality coming from the citizens…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Russia-China Alliance: More than a Bulwark Against Imperialism
29 Apr 2021
China’s communist party-led government and enormous non-white population strikes fear in the heart of the hegemon in ways that Russia alone simply cannot. “Growing ties between Russia and China present a new vision for global development which is not bound to the violent limitations of U.S. empire…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: No Justice Without a Movement
29 Apr 2021
The changes needed are fundamental to a country which puts anti-black racism at the center of politics, law and economics. “There is little in the way of justice, and focusing solely on police snuff films is a poor substitute for meaningful analysis.”
Santi Elijah Holley
The Black Panther Party Has Never Been More Popular, but Actual Black Panthers Have Been Forgotten
06 May 2021
The name Black Panther is a box-office draw, but can cinematic sympathy be extended to the Panthers who are still living and breathing in this country’s prisons? “In the last two decades, at least eight Panthers have died in prison.”
Adam Mahoney
The US’s Biggest County Jails Are Sites of Extreme Environmental Injustice
06 May 2021
After first being forced to live in chemically toxic communities, Black and Brown people are then incarcerated in jails where they cannot escape some of the worst pollution in the nation. “Jails worsen things like traffic pollution and the degradation of natural resources.”
Matthew D. Lassiter
Police and the License to Kill
06 May 2021
Detroit police killed hundreds of unnamed Blacks in response to the civil rights movement, revealing why most of today’s proposals to make police more accountable are bound to fail, and how we can do better. “Having a full account of how the state has historically devised ways of excusing its own…
David Zirin
Voices Are Raised Against the NBA Launching Its New African League in Rwanda
06 May 2021
Human rights groups are concerned that using Rwanda as a backdrop would provide a public relations boost for its autocratic leader. “The command of Paul Kagame committed in the Congo ‘war crimes, crimes against humanity and possible genocide if proven in a incompetent court’ in the conflict which…