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Roberto Sirvent
BAR Book Forum: Nitasha Sharma’s Book, “Hawaiʻi Is My Haven”
15 Sep 2021
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Nitasha Tamar Sharma. Sharma is Professor of African American Studies and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. Her book is Hawaiʻi Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
For My Friend Keasley (Autumn and E-Crew, 25/22)
15 Sep 2021
For My Friend Keasley (Autumn and E-Crew, 25/22) I. In my mind—and sometimes sub-vocally—I say his name almost every day. You see, I call my wallet, “Wally Gator;” my keys, “Keasley Jones.” I don’t leave home without them— A memory trick for remembering things essential. II. Moist…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Racial Prejudice in Cuba
15 Sep 2021
Contemporary conversations about racism in Cuba appear to have forgotten what it was like for Africans on the island republic before the Revolution. Afro-Cuban architect and journalist Gustavo E. Urrutia provides a stark historical reminder.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The Gorgon Staring at You
15 Sep 2021
U.S. wars in foreign countries always come home. The latest is the “Gorgon Stare,” wide angle surveillance planes, used in Iraq and Afghanistan, that have now been brought home, to an urban area near you.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Durban and 9/11: The Implications for a New Politics of Resistance
15 Sep 2021
Another twenty-year anniversary is the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) that took place in Durban, South Africa between August 31, and September 8. The George W. Bush administration walked out of that meeting and the Obama administration boycotted the 10th anniversary. BAR contributor and…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Austerity and Mass Murder: An American Pastime
15 Sep 2021
The race to the bottom is an imperative of austerity, which is foundational to the history of state violence in the U.S.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
20 Years of Post-9/11 Amnesia
15 Sep 2021
Memories of the last 20 years are rarely focused on increased state violence and repression in the post-9/11 world. The damage has largely been forgotten.
Peoples Dispatch
Latin American and Caribbean Leaders Approve Historic Agreement at CELAC Summit
21 Sep 2021
The heads of state of the regional block agreed on a 44-point declaration which addressed the strategy against COVID-19 and climate change and took a stand against the blockade on Cuba.
Julie Yixia Cai, Dean Baker
Black and Asian American Workers Falling Behind in Getting Back Jobs
22 Sep 2021
Economic recovery is uneven, with Black workers least likely to be employed in the wake of the covid pandemic. In the first half of 2021, the economy added more than 4.2 million jobs, a rise of almost 3.0 percent, as it rapidly added back jobs lost during the pandemic-related recession.
Rosa Miriam Elizalde
The Money That Never Arrives in Cuba
22 Sep 2021
The United States has cut off channels for sending remittances to the island, leaving families who rely on the help – especially during the pandemic – without desperately needed resources.