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André Brock Jr.
BAR Book Forum: André Brock Jr.’s “Distributed Blackness”
15 Jul 2021
The online aggregation and coherence of Blackness online, absent Black bodies, is what inspired the author’s book. “Black folk have a natural affinity for the internet and digital media.”
Branko Marcetic
The Julian Assange Media Blackout Must End
15 Jul 2021
Embarrassed by revelations, the Biden administration has now offered several “assurances” they would allow Assange to apply for transfer to a prison in his home country of Australia to serve out his time. “The establishment press has decided to simply ignore the story.” A couple weeks back, the US…
Seth Donnelly
The Assassination of Jovenel Moise: What Next for Haiti?
15 Jul 2021
Expect the Biden Administration to provide ongoing funding for Haiti’s brutal security forces. “Since Moise took power, the Haitian people have taken to the streets by the hundreds of thousands.”
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Defend the Cuba Revolution and Struggle for More Socialism, Not Less!
15 Jul 2021
Millions have turned away from the illusions and corruption of capitalism toward the possibility of organizing a society informed by the values of cooperation, equality, community, peace, and life. “Capitalism transforms water into a commodity, food into a luxury, education into an impossibility…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Pigment of your Imagination: Black magic mascots, props and sops?
15 Jul 2021
Could the pigment of your imagination cause Black magic mascots, props, sops— Black faces in high places— to short-circuit electrical gray spaces? Are you bamboozled by black cat dander- goober dust-rabbit foot-spook-ism—like The Audacity of Dope? Did you happy dance on ice twice—dangling…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan Clash as River Waters Fill the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
15 Jul 2021
Three nations share the same water, but not the same foreign connections, which makes for a dangerous mix. “Russia is rumored to be helping Ethiopia guard the dam.”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DOCUMENT: James Weldon Johnson, Self-Determining Haiti, 1920
15 Jul 2021
Published in 1920, Self-Determining Haiti remains a remarkable example of investigative journalism and advocacy and a damning testament to the perils and pitfalls of US military intervention. “When the United States found itself in a position to take what it had not even dared to ask, it…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
What Did We Learn from the CPC’s 100th Anniversary? Leadership Matters
15 Jul 2021
There is a lesson to be learned from the differences in recent U.S. and Chinese historical celebrations. “The U.S. model of neoliberal capitalism, characterized by racial antagonism and military aggression, is losing legitimacy.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: U.S. Out of Haiti!
15 Jul 2021
The United States playing any role in Haiti’s future is akin to the fox being left in charge of the henhouse. “Every step Haitians take towards true independence has been systematically subverted.”
Sarah Ruiz-Grossman
People Working A Minimum Wage Job Can’t Afford Rent Anywhere In The U.S.
22 Jul 2021
Over 40% of Black and Latinx households pay more than 30% of their income on rent, compared with 25% of white households. “’One full-time job should be enough,’ the report says.” A full-time, minimum-wage worker can’t afford even a modest one-bedroom apartment in 93% of U.S. counties,…