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Salimah Valiani, PhD
Africa's COVID-19 Vaccine and the Scandal of the Centuries
05 Oct 2021
African nations might have produced a patent free vaccine that would have benefitted the whole world. Instead they purchased patented vaccines which enriched pharmaceutical corporations outside of the continent. This article is based on an interview conducted with Professor Christian Happi on…
Kevin Edmonds
Let Haiti Breathe – CORE Group Out of Haiti
06 Oct 2021
Dismantling the unelected and colonialist CORE Group is the first step to loosening the imperialist stranglehold over Haiti. On a hot August afternoon, members from Solidarité Québec-Haïti, a group rooted in Canada’s Haitian diaspora community, gathered In front of the Canadian parliament buildings…
Salome Ayuak
Imperialism and the Horn of Africa
06 Oct 2021
Speech by Salome Ayuak given at the International Month of Action Against AFRICOM launch event.
Mark P. Fancher
From Russia Without Love - Mercenaries in Mali
06 Oct 2021
The "scramble for Africa" continues with the U.S., former colonizers such as France, and now Russia, all competing for influence. African nations struggle for true sovereignty.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
AOC Offers a Hard Lesson on the Need to Dump the Duopoly
06 Oct 2021
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other so-called progressives exemplify the dangers of depending on the Democratic Party to enact any meaningful change.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Louis M. Maraj’s “Black or Right”
06 Oct 2021
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Louis M. Maraj. Maraj is an Assistant Professor of Writing Studies at the University of British Columbia. His book is Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics. Roberto Sirvent: How…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Build Back Better Legislation: New Keynesianism or Neoliberal Public Relations Stunt?
06 Oct 2021
Some provisions of Biden’s “Build Back Better” legislation benefit the masses of Black people, but this legislation is a bare minimum effort to blunt some of the sharpest contradictions of the system while attempting to maintain the neoliberal order.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Shell Shocked in Amhara, Ethiopia: “I don't even want to hear the word ‘America’ ”
06 Oct 2021
A displaced person in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region told photographer and human rights investigator Jemal Countess that he didn’t want to talk to him because he was American and “didn’t even want to hear the word America” because of all the damage America has done in Ethiopia.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
“Our democracy:” Dictatorship of death merchants in bipartisan Brooks Brothers suits…
06 Oct 2021
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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
PROCLAMATION: LIBERTY OR DEATH, JEAN JACQUES DESSALINES, 1804
06 Oct 2021
This proclamation by Jean Jacques Dessalines, the first leader of a free Haiti, is one of the most radical declarations of freedom in history.