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Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Trial of Black Activist Dedan Waciuri as a Violation of Human Rights
07 Dec 2021
The state targets Black activists who exercise their right to speak and assemble freely. On December 7 the Pitt County, North Carolina prosecutor again continued the case against Dedan Waciuri. He was criminally charged after protesting against police brutality and for the rights of Black…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jennifer S. Ponce de León’s “Another Aesthetics Is Possible”
07 Dec 2021
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Jennifer S. Ponce de León. Ponce de León is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her book is Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the…
Netfa Freeman
US Still Strong Arming “Democracy” Onto Libya
07 Dec 2021
The Western imperialist forces responsible for the overthrow and assassination of Muammar Gaddafi, as well as the destruction of Libya, are now trying to force elections and so-called “democracy” onto the country.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Enes Kanter’s Name Change and the Pathology of American Exceptionalism
07 Dec 2021
NBA star Enes Kanter embodies the dangers of American exceptionalism rhetoric. Support for oppression around the world is always the end result of this pernicious belief system.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL: Poor Women: Pawns in the Abortion Controversy, The Black Panther, 1980
07 Dec 2021
A 1980 editorial in The Black Panther argues that the war against abortion is a bi-partisan war against poor women.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
People Centered Human Rights and the Black Radical Tradition
07 Dec 2021
The West’s fiction of “human rights” has been weaponized by neoliberals to rationalize naked imperialist interventions. But if human rights are to have any relevance for the oppressed, they must be “de-colonized” and given meaning by the oppressed themselves: a People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHR…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Democratic Party Betrayal, Abortion, and the Supreme Court
08 Dec 2021
Democrats have been fooled into thinking that only the courts can protect abortion rights. In fact, legislation could protect abortion permanently, but their party has refused to do that. Now that SCOTUS control is lost because of their corruption and betrayals, they continue to spin lies that…
Chris Hedges
The Execution of Julian Assange
14 Dec 2021
Julian Assange committed empire’s greatest sin. He exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption and innumerable war crimes. And empires always kill those who inflict deep and serious wounds. This article originally appeared in…
Emmanuel Onapa
How the Black Education Movement Took on the Racist Schools System
14 Dec 2021
A new archive tells the story of a radical community collective formed in the 1960s to challenge the treatment of Black pupils in UK schools. There are parallels with groups fighting inequalities in education today. This article was originally published in The Big Issue.
Peter James Hudson
Frederick Douglass and American Empire in Haiti
14 Dec 2021
Toward the end of his life, Frederick Douglass served briefly as U.S. ambassador to Haiti. The disastrous episode reveals much about the country’s long struggle for Black sovereignty while always under the threat of U.S. empire. This article was originally published in Boston Review.