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Ali Abunimah
German Police Attack Palestine Supporters on Nakba Day
18 May 2022
The city of Berlin, Germany banned pro-Palestinian protests on May 15, Nakba Day. But solidarity with Palestine could not be stopped.
Kim Ives
Is the U.S. Covering Up its Role in Moïse’s Murder?
18 May 2022
The judge presiding over the trial of an accused killer of Haitian president Jovenel Moise granted the DOJ request to classify certain evidence. The action points to a possible US connection with the killing.
Safiya Charles
“It Tears You Apart Mentally and Physically”: The Health Crisis Afflicting Black Farmers
18 May 2022
Farming is a stressful occupation. Black farmers face the additional burdens of racism, debt, and displacement.
Black Alliance For Peace
The Black Alliance for Peace Calls on Latin American and Caribbean Nations to Boycott the Summit of the Americas
18 May 2022
The failure of the U.S. to respect the sovereignty of nations in the region and its decision to exclude states from the Summit disqualifies it from being a credible host. The Black Alliance for Peace Haiti and the Americas Committee will provide analysis in their webinar “Defending Our…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nick Nesbitt’s Book, “The Price of Slavery”
18 May 2022
This week’s featured author is Nick Nesbitt. Nesbitt is Professor of French and Italian at Princeton University. His book is The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean.
John Parker
Fact Finding Mission to Donbass
18 May 2022
John Parker is the Socialist Unity Party candidate for U.S. Senate in California on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket. Parker is on a fact-finding trip observing the U.S./NATO proxy war on Donbass and Russia.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Camera and Pen
18 May 2022
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Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Notes from Ethiopia, Part 4: The TPLF Destruction of Afar
18 May 2022
Contributing Editor Ann Garrison continues her reporting from the Horn of Africa. She is once again in Ethiopia.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
REFLECTION: Choosing Ourselves: Black Women and Abortion, Beverly Smith, 1989
18 May 2022
A 1989 talk by Black feminist Beverly Smith reminds us that for Black women, the right to abortion can be a woman’s right to life.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The New White Supremacist Consensus Part Two: Shootings in Buffalo Solidify the Consensus
18 May 2022
The latest mass shooter in Buffalo, New York was clearly a racist, and identified with Ukrainian and other neo-Nazis. But white supremacy has a stronger hold on European and U.S. society than is commonly acknowledged. The avowed racist is not the only problem.