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Nick Estes
Indigenous People of Brazil Fight for Their Future
22 Sep 2021
Brazil's indigenous people struggle against an entrenched oligarchy determined to drive them from their lands and a right wing president who is supported by the U.S.
Marjorie Cohn
Samuel Moyn’s Unprincipled Attack on Human Rights Giant Michael Ratner is Shameful
22 Sep 2021
Michael Ratner and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) were intimately connected to the Black Liberation Movement representing a number of activists in the crosshairs of state repression. I knew Ratner and served on the CCR board of directors for nine years during which CCR took on the Bush…
Netfa Freeman
Biden’s DOJ Sleight of Hand on Police Reform
22 Sep 2021
DOJ "reforms" are a smoke screen covering up systemic complicity with law enforcement. Police killing Black and Brown people hasn’t let up even though the public's attention may have been diverted from it as a constant nationwide tragedy for which the federal government shares responsibility.…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Schmo Munchkin v. Ida
22 Sep 2021
Schmo Munchkin v. Ida Ida: Hello, Schmo… Munchkin: I’m the most powerful politician in the most powerful deliberative body in the most powerful country in the world—and who the hell are you? Ida: Who the hell do you think I am, Mr. Muthafrakkker— Fossil Fuel-Big Pharma-errand boy…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Eric A. Stanley’s “Atmospheres of Violence”
22 Sep 2021
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Eric A. Stanley. Stanley is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Their book is Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism…
Black Alliance For Peace
Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Biden Administration’s Order to Deport Haitians as Illegal and Racist
22 Sep 2021
U.S. policies have created the conditions in Haiti that have compelled tens of thousands to flee.
Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor
Borders, Blackness, and Empire
22 Sep 2021
The spectacle of violence against Haitians at the U.S.-Mexico border needs to be seen in light of ongoing U.S. imperialism in Haiti.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: China and Africa, W. E. B. Du Bois, 1959
22 Sep 2021
In 1959, on his ninety-first birthday, W. E. B. Du Bois spoke to an audience at Peking University on “China and Africa.” Du Bois’ words and warnings on colonialism, capitalism, and the self-determination of the “darker races” are as relevant to the Black world now as they were during the Cold War.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Biden Threatens Sweeping Sanctions on Ethiopia, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Responds
22 Sep 2021
The U.S. is once again attempting to overthrow a legitimate head of state in Africa, this time in Ethiopia, where they want to put their old puppet, the TPLF, or a new one, in power.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Racism Denies Common Prosperity in the United States
22 Sep 2021
China's commitment to enhancing social cohesion is an example of what a society should strive to do. But racism endemic to the U.S. prevents it from taking the same steps.