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Saladin Muhammad
Bessemer Alabama Amazon Workers Continue Struggle to Unionize
23 Mar 2022
The mostly Black labor force at an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama will have a second opportunity to vote for unionization. This statement was originally published by the Southern Workers Assembly.
Jacqueline Luqman
Lies and Times: How The New York Times Gives Cover to Fascists
23 Mar 2022
Much of the New York Times reporting on Ukraine doesn't meet basic journalistic standards. The "newspaper of record" is in fact a record of ruling class and state apparatus narratives.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Aria S. Halliday’s “Buy Black”
23 Mar 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Aria S. Halliday. Halliday is Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and Program in African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky.…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Charles Athanasopoulos
23 Mar 2022
As part of the Black Agenda Report Book Forum, we interview scholars about a recent article they’ve written for either an academic journal or popular publication. We ask these scholars to discuss their article, as well as some of the books that have most influenced them. This week’s featured…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
A war is not a war…
23 Mar 2022
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Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Biden has Money for War, but Not for the Poor
23 Mar 2022
Joe Biden and congress have plenty of money for the military industrial complex, but only austerity for the people. The imperialist machine is always fed. The following lyric in Tupac Shakur’s legendary 1993 track, Keep Ya Head Up, aptly describes the Joe Biden administration: “You know it's funny…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: The Gary Declaration: Black Politics at the Crossroads, 1972
23 Mar 2022
In 1972, thousands of Black people met in Gary, Indiana to establish a political and economic platform that would influence the US presidential elections. The document from this meeting, The National Black Political Agenda, remains one of the most radical and comprehensive programs for Black…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Ukraine: War and the Challenge of Human Rights in the United States and Beyond
23 Mar 2022
The U.S. justifies wars of aggression in the name of human rights. The term has no meaning domestically either, as the people's needs are subordinated to those of the ruling class.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Ongoing Covid Disaster
23 Mar 2022
Pollsters have advised Joe Biden to declare covid over. But the pandemic revealed all the shortcomings of a political system which is dedicated to austerity and to protecting capitalist interests. Declarations of victory should be treated with skepticism.
Janvieve Williams Comrie
Francia Márquez: Colombia's First Black Vice Presidential Candidate
25 Mar 2022
Francia Márquez Mina, a Black woman activist from the Black region of the Pacific coast, is Colombia’s First Black Vice Presidential Candidate.