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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Natasha Gordon-Chipembere’s “Finding La Negrita”
16 Nov 2022
This week’s featured author is Natasha Gordon-Chipembere. Gordon-Chipembere holds a PhD in English from the University of South Africa. She was born in New York to a Costa Rican mom and a Panamanian dad. She is the founder and host of the Tengo Sed (“I am thirsty”) Annual Writing Retreats in Costa…
Jared Ball
Wakanda Must Fall
16 Nov 2022
This new film is rightly called a fantasy, and not just because Wakanda doesn't exist. If Black moviegoers are not aware of the dangerous politics it espouses, they will find themselves believing in things far worse than non-existent kingdoms.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Priest App
16 Nov 2022
Priest App Father’s on a mission— fucking anything moving. Finding soft targets, firing his heat-seeking Hellfire Missile into any orifice the Devil may be hunkered down in Father, weaponized, is waging his ‘one man’ war on sin. Putting himself in harm’s way. The bell tower’s his black site. He…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: The Nairobi Manifesto, 1985
16 Nov 2022
In 1985, African women tried to warn us about a world in crisis. Did we listen?
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Bittersweet Freedom for Mutulu Shakur
16 Nov 2022
Mutulu Shakur has been granted parole, but he is terminally ill. Black political prisoners in this country are held for 30, 40 and 50 years. Reprieve happens only when they are at death's door.
Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson
Medical Care as a Political Weapon: Reflections on Frantz Fanon’s Treatment and Death from Cancer in Amerika
23 Nov 2022
Frantz Fanon was a fierce critic of the U.S., but he spent the last weeks of his life in Washington DC, where he hoped to be treated for leukemia. Medical care can be used as a political weapon.
US Out of Africa Network
AFRICOM Watch Bulletin #43
23 Nov 2022
The Black Alliance for Peace AFRICOM Watch Bulletin #43 includes an interview with a representative of the Revolutionary Socialist League of Kenya and as always, the latest analysis and reporting on Africa.
Richard Matousek
After Bolsonaro, Can Brazil Move Beyond Neoliberalism and Toward Greater Global Cooperation?
23 Nov 2022
Lula da Silva's return to the Brazilian presidency is seen as a victory for the left. But he will have to struggle against forces who want to continue neo-liberal policies.
Carlos Edill Berríos Polanco
Widespread Panic as Anti-Haitian Decree Goes into Effect in Dominican Republic
23 Nov 2022
In the Dominican Republic, Haitian migrants or any dark-skinned Black person can be arrested, have their belongings seized, and be deported from that country. Anti-Haitian sentiment and legislation is a mainstay of Dominican politics.
Phillip Clark
Ujima’s Plan to Transcend Neoliberalism in Maryland
23 Nov 2022
The Ujima People's Progress Party is organizing outside of the duopoly in an effort to gain true political representation for Black working people.