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Black Alliance For Peace
Afghanistan is No 'Graveyard' for U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination
25 Aug 2021
Black Alliance for Peace analysis on Afghanistan, Haiti and the U.S. effort to maintain hegemony. Some have asserted the U.S. empire has reached its historic endpoint because of its defeat in Afghanistan. However, that call is as premature as political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s proclamation…
Netfa Freeman
Nicaragua at a Revolutionary Crossroads and in Imperialist Crosshairs
25 Aug 2021
U.S. attack on Nicaragua targets its Black community. There is a page in the playbook for U.S. imperialist regime change in Latin America that includes exploiting the identity politics of Blackness. A recent example was the unrest in Cuba a month ago that included a sophisticated attempt to paint…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Summer of Soul/Summer of Struggle…
25 Aug 2021
BAR's poet in residence pays tribute to fallen Black Panther Party comrades. Chalk silhouettes, bullet-violated bodies of Bunchy and John—UCLA, cold Campbell Hall floor—Punctuated January ’69…like a loud Prelude to December’s death squad symphonies: Silencing Chicago songs of spring; Meeting riffs…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sharon Lynette Jones’ “Conversations with Angela Davis”
25 Aug 2021
BAR Book Forum delves into Conversations with Angela Davis. In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Sharon Lynette Jones. Jones is professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at Wright State University.…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: An Yountae and Eleanor Craig’s “Beyond Man”
25 Aug 2021
"Beyond Man" is an analysis of race, religion, and activism.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Document: Notes of a Prison Collective: Marion Political Collective, 1976
25 Aug 2021
In 1976, prisoners in the United States Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois wrote a collective document explaining the status of the prisoner within the prison—and the role of the prison in society at large.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Somalia, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
25 Aug 2021
Cold War and War on Terror destabilize Somalia and cause great suffering for its people. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, aka Farmaajo, is currently the Interim President of Somalia, pending parliamentary elections that have been repeatedly postponed since February. He first became the president of…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Gentrification and the End of Black Communities
25 Aug 2021
Census data show that gentrification is accelerating Black displacement.
Curry Malott
How Amilcar Cabral Shaped Paulo Freire's Pedagogy
01 Sep 2021
Frantz Fanon’s influence on Paulo Freire’s thought is well known, but the Brazilian educator also drew considerably from Amílcar Cabral, the revolutionary intellectual from Guinea-Bissau. Amílcar L Cabral was born 12 September 1924 in Bafatá, Guinea-Bissau, one of Portugal’s African colonies. He…
All-African People's Revolutionary Party
Out of Afghanistan Today, Out of Africa Tomorrow!
01 Sep 2021
The U.S. departure from Afghanistan is a victory against imperialism.