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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—…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Prelude to War? The US/NATO, Egypt, and Ethiopian Sovereignty
09 Jun 2021
Ethiopian American activist and community organizer Benyam Kitaw tells Ann Garrison that US hostility toward Ethiopia could lead to further sanctions, economic pressure, and perhaps even war. “The primary issue is Ethiopian sovereignty vs. US/NATO military hegemony.”
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.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Truth About Defunding Police
09 Jun 2021
“Defunding” the police has often turned out to be an accounting trick, but community control of police – a righteous demand – must also ensure that all government functions address human needs. “The armed forces of Russia, Germany, France, the U.K. and Japan all receive less money than…
Roberto Lovato
The Kids Are Reimagining International Solidarity
16 Jun 2021
Millennial and Gen Z activists are aligning their struggles at home with the fights against US empire in the streets of Palestine, Haiti, Colombia, and other countries. “This solidarity is being shaped by demographic shifts and immigration, militarized policing, the rise of neofascism, and BLM.”