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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
20 Years of Post-9/11 Amnesia
15 Sep 2021
Memories of the last 20 years are rarely focused on increased state violence and repression in the post-9/11 world. The damage has largely been forgotten.
Peoples Dispatch
Latin American and Caribbean Leaders Approve Historic Agreement at CELAC Summit
21 Sep 2021
The heads of state of the regional block agreed on a 44-point declaration which addressed the strategy against COVID-19 and climate change and took a stand against the blockade on Cuba.
Julie Yixia Cai, Dean Baker
Black and Asian American Workers Falling Behind in Getting Back Jobs
22 Sep 2021
Economic recovery is uneven, with Black workers least likely to be employed in the wake of the covid pandemic. In the first half of 2021, the economy added more than 4.2 million jobs, a rise of almost 3.0 percent, as it rapidly added back jobs lost during the pandemic-related recession.
Rosa Miriam Elizalde
The Money That Never Arrives in Cuba
22 Sep 2021
The United States has cut off channels for sending remittances to the island, leaving families who rely on the help – especially during the pandemic – without desperately needed resources.
Nick Estes
Indigenous People of Brazil Fight for Their Future
22 Sep 2021
Brazil's indigenous people struggle against an entrenched oligarchy determined to drive them from their lands and a right wing president who is supported by the U.S.
Marjorie Cohn
Samuel Moyn’s Unprincipled Attack on Human Rights Giant Michael Ratner is Shameful
22 Sep 2021
Michael Ratner and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) were intimately connected to the Black Liberation Movement representing a number of activists in the crosshairs of state repression. I knew Ratner and served on the CCR board of directors for nine years during which CCR took on the Bush…
Netfa Freeman
Biden’s DOJ Sleight of Hand on Police Reform
22 Sep 2021
DOJ "reforms" are a smoke screen covering up systemic complicity with law enforcement. Police killing Black and Brown people hasn’t let up even though the public's attention may have been diverted from it as a constant nationwide tragedy for which the federal government shares responsibility.…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Eric A. Stanley’s “Atmospheres of Violence”
22 Sep 2021
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Eric A. Stanley. Stanley is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Their book is Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism…
Black Alliance For Peace
Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Biden Administration’s Order to Deport Haitians as Illegal and Racist
22 Sep 2021
U.S. policies have created the conditions in Haiti that have compelled tens of thousands to flee.
Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor
Borders, Blackness, and Empire
22 Sep 2021
The spectacle of violence against Haitians at the U.S.-Mexico border needs to be seen in light of ongoing U.S. imperialism in Haiti.