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Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Crazy Like a Woodfox
10 Aug 2022
Crazy as a Woodfox... I. 3:33 A.M. tears welling, cooling queasiness, nausea, unsettling Fire in my belly. Balm of Gilead Soothing wounded spirits small morning hours… In the whistling teapot I hear Mary Ann Fisher’s response to interrogating Raelett calls: “What kind of man are you?” If I were a…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
For the American Empire, Hypocrisy and War Go Hand in Hand
10 Aug 2022
American exceptionalist hypocrisy was on full display during Nancy Pelosi's provocative trip to Taiwan.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Nancy Pelosi, White Supremacy, and China
10 Aug 2022
White supremacist arrogance was the order of the day when Nancy Pelosi ignored a red line set by the Chinese government and visited Taiwan. The Speaker of the House showed stereotypical and racist attitudes towards that country and began a chain of events that won't go well for the U.S. “When I was…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Women in Prison: How We Are, Assata Shakur, 1978
10 Aug 2022
Assata Shakur exposes the conditions faced by incarcerated Black women in a powerful 1978 essay.
Abayomi Azikiwe
Sudanese Communist Party Forms a New Alliance Committed to Ending Military Rule
17 Aug 2022
After withdrawing from the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), the Sudanese Communist Party has continued to call for democratic civilian rule.
Ajit Singh, Roscoe Palm
Manufacturing Consent: How the United States Has Penetrated South African Media
17 Aug 2022
The CIA has played a role in controlling South African media from the days of apartheid to the present.
Kit Klarenberg
New Research Finds CIA Used Black Americans as Drugs Experiment Guinea Pigs
17 Aug 2022
The CIA's Operation Paperclip brought Nazi scientists to the U.S. and MKULTRA mind control experimentation was one of its projects. Black prison inmates were targeted for these unethical procedures.
Julie Varughese
‘West Wants to Change Regimes for Itself’: Africans Strategize In Washington Against Western-Backed Leaders
17 Aug 2022
The U.S. and its European allies often determine who will govern African nations. Attendees at a recent conference discussed how to end this dynamic and create true sovereignty on the African continent.
Ernest Owens
The City Has Failed University City Townhome Residents. They Should Pay For It — Literally
17 Aug 2022
The traumatizing clearing of the University City Townhome encampment in West Philadelphia symbolizes the ongoing racial injustice of gentrification. One solution: The city should buy the property.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ren Ellis Neyra’s Book, “The Cry of the Senses”
24 Aug 2022
This week’s featured author is Ren Ellis Neyra. Elis Neyra is Associate Professor of English at Wesleyan University. Their book is The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics.