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Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Shell Shocked in Amhara, Ethiopia: “I don't even want to hear the word ‘America’ ”
06 Oct 2021
A displaced person in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region told photographer and human rights investigator Jemal Countess that he didn’t want to talk to him because he was American and “didn’t even want to hear the word America” because of all the damage America has done in Ethiopia.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
“Our democracy:” Dictatorship of death merchants in bipartisan Brooks Brothers suits…
06 Oct 2021
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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
PROCLAMATION: LIBERTY OR DEATH, JEAN JACQUES DESSALINES, 1804
06 Oct 2021
This proclamation by Jean Jacques Dessalines, the first leader of a free Haiti, is one of the most radical declarations of freedom in history.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Thousands of Police Killings Are Unreported
06 Oct 2021
Police killings of Black people are a feature of American law enforcement and they are deliberately under counted.
Houria Bouteldja, Youssef Boussoumah
The Parti des Indigènes de la République - A Political Success and the Conspiracy Against It (2005 to 2020)
13 Oct 2021
Houria Bouteldja and Youssef Boussoumah, co-founders of the Parti des Indigènes de la République in France, detail the party's history, the French anti-racist and anti-imperialist movement, and their own experiences engaging in anti-racist politics over the last fifteen years. This…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Grand Jury Refuse to Charge Police in the Murder of Kwamena Ocran
13 Oct 2021
Police killings in Maryland go unpunished as they do in the rest of the country. Kwamena Ocran was just one of of many Black victims in his community.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Propaganda War against China Aims to Expand U.S. Hegemony and Eradicate Socialism
13 Oct 2021
Anti-China propaganda is intended to indoctrinate Americans with fear and hatred and gain support for war against that country and against socialism itself. This is an edited version of remarks given by the author at the Friends of Socialist China’s webinar entitled, Propaganda War Against China,…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin’s “Anarchism and the Black Revolution”
13 Oct 2021
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin. Ervin is an American writer, activist and black anarchist. He is a former member of SNCC, the Black Panther Party and Concerned Citizens for Justice. His book is…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
San Francisco Court’s Racist Denial of the Constitutional Right to a Speedy Trial
13 Oct 2021
San Francisco Public Defender Manohar Raju spoke to Ann Garrison about why his office is suing San Francisco Superior Court for denying hundreds of Black and Brown people the speedy trial rights guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
STATEMENT: Black Caucus Protest at the African Studies Association, Montreal, October, 1969
13 Oct 2021
Black challenges to white control of African Studies at the 1969 African Studies Association meeting in Montreal exposed the deeply entrenched racism within, and the imperialist leanings of, the field. Has anything changed?