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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: International African Service Bureau’s Manifesto Against War, 1938
08 Jul 2021
German Nazis, Italian Fascists, British, French, Belgian democracies – all are the same, imperialist exploiters . “The IASB located the causes of the coming conflict in the European contest over the colonized world.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Critical Race Theory Debacle Signals the Collapse of the American Empire
08 Jul 2021
Whatever the strengths and limitations of Critical Race Theory, the debate over its usefulness to establishment circles is indicative of the American Empire’s rapid decline “The months-long protests and rebellions against racist policing forced the establishment to take a position on the United…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: How the Billionaires Rule
08 Jul 2021
Predatory Capitalism Has Driven Down Wages and Created a Dystopia for Workers. “Currently, 25 states out of 50 have rejected additional help for the unemployed.” President Calvin Coolidge said, “The business of America is business.” The expression is memorable because it always rang true. But…
Black is Back Coalition
Black Is Back Coalition Holds Conference on Community Control of Police
15 Jul 2021
“We must deepen the resistance to police terror and all attempts to protect a status quo of colonial domination of our people,” the 17 organizations of the coalition declared.
Ximena Bustillo
“Rampant Issues”: Black Farmers are Still Left Out at USDA
15 Jul 2021
Farmers of color received less than one percent of the payments even though they are five percent of all U.S. farmers. “The average farm for a Black farmer is 132 acres, according to the 2017 Agricultural Census, the lowest of any socially disadvantaged group.”
All Africa
Swaziland Army in “Full Charge” After Protests, Many Killed by King’s Troops
15 Jul 2021
The Swazi military has reportedly warned the population to “obey instructions” or “face full wraith of troops.” “The army is now fully in charge for real .. not even the police knows what the army is doing now.” The Army in Swaziland (eSwatini) has taken full charge after mass prodemocracy protests…
Sarah Leonard
How Amazon Exploited a Weakened America
15 Jul 2021
Amazon will not stop squeezing every drop from workers until those workers have more power. “The book is less an examination of the company than an examination of America through its lens.” Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America Alec MacGillis Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN:…
Cynthia Greenlee
How History Textbooks Reflect America’s Refusal to Reckon with Slavery
15 Jul 2021
Textbooks are a battleground in which the humanity and status of black Americans are contested “Textbooks shaped how generations of white Americans thought about their black compatriots and how black Americans who read such textbooks thought about themselves.”
Erica X Eisen
Blackness and the Bomb
15 Jul 2021
Seventy years after the civil preparedness film Duck and Cover, it is long past time to reckon with the way white supremacy shaped U.S. nuclear defense efforts during the Cold War. “The terror surrounding nuclear weapons seemed to be rooted very specifically in a fear that the target would be…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kyla Schuller’s Book, “The Biopolitics of Feeling”
15 Jul 2021
The very physical category of femaleness was articulated by feminists and non-feminists alike as the sole property of whiteness in the 19th century, “Children are the front lines of state racism.”