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Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Black Friday’s gift
23 Nov 2021
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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Caroline H. Yang’s Book, “The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery”
23 Nov 2021
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Caroline Yang. Yang is Associate Professor of English at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her book is The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery: The Chinese Worker and the Minstrel Form.…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Ethiopians Rally Against CNN, the TPLF, and US Aggression
23 Nov 2021
Ethiopians and Eritreans are decrying CNN’s slander of their nations and peoples, but CNN’s just fulfilling their mission, manufacturing consent for aggression, deprivation, and war, most of all in the Global South. On Sunday, I attended the San Francisco manifestation of the Ethiopian…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Stop Confusing the Fight Against Racism with Neoliberalism
23 Nov 2021
The electoral appeal of anti-Black racism is a constant in the U.S. It is the perennial contradiction, producing political dynamics which ensure that the people's needs are never met and the ruling class have little opposition due to the lack of class consciousness.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Interview: Queen Mother Moore, Westindian Digest, September 1982
23 Nov 2021
In a 1982 interview, Queen Mother Audley Moore raps on imperialism, neocolonialism, emancipation, and reparations -- and the need for Black people to get in our “right mind” to understand our domination.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The Delusional Commitment to the Doctrine of “Full Spectrum Dominance” is leading the U.S. and the World to Disaster
23 Nov 2021
U.S. actions around the world seem mysterious unless the commitment to white supremacist notions of domination is clearly understood.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Rittenhouse and Verdict Mania
23 Nov 2021
Black people give great attention to certain court cases in hopes of receiving justice when the system is designed to be unjust. That recognition and the commitment to fighting back will be of greater use than divining conclusions about a racist nation when juries reach verdicts.
Center for Constitutional Rights
Kenyan Families Say U.S. Government Fueling “War on Terror” Disappearances and Killings, Demand Records
24 Nov 2021
Security forces trained by the CIA and the UK's MI6 use the "war on terror" as justification for killing and abducting Kenyans. In fact, the US/EU/NATO axis wage a war of terror against African people. The Center for Constitutional Rights, MUHURI, and the Global Justice Clinic…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Racist, Imperialist War on Venezuela
24 Nov 2021
We are reprinting Glen Ford’s 2019 article on Venezuela not to demonstrate that he was prescient on the issue of U.S.-Venezuela policies, but because it is still relevant and demonstrates the timeless importance of a clear, sober analysis of material forces from a Black radical, internationalist…
Justin Hosbey, J.T. Roane
A Totally Different Form of Living: On the Legacies of Displacement and Marronage as Black Ecologies
01 Dec 2021
This is a brief reflection on water, swamps, bayous, wetlands, and Black life in the United States, and the forms of freedom and racialized unfreedom that these ecologies have facilitated. Our ongoing collective project is to produce “deep maps” that center Black ecologies in the ways we think…