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Netfa Freeman
A Revolutionary Lens on U.S. Elections
09 Nov 2022
The electoral system alone doesn't bring about change that benefits the people. People-centered political formations must be part of any political process.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Ayodeji Ogunnaike
09 Nov 2022
This week’s featured scholar is Ayodeji Ogunnaike. Ogunnaike is an assistant professor at Bowdoin College where he teaches interdisciplinary courses on Africa and the African Diaspora highlighting the important role religion plays in these communities.
Onyesonwu Chatoyer , Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
“We Can Save Ourselves”: An Interview with Onyesonwu Chatoyer
09 Nov 2022
Onyesonwu Chatoyer of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party and BAR Book Forum Editor Roberto Sirvent discuss how "We Can Save Ourselves."
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
A Football Fan's Lord Prayer
09 Nov 2022
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Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Africa Confronts the Food, Fertilizer, and Climate Crisis
09 Nov 2022
Food production in Africa is complicated by climate change and the use of fertilizers which increase food production but which also create green house gases and create other environmental harm.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DAKAR MANIFESTO: Africa: from Resistance to Alternatives, 2001
09 Nov 2022
The 2001 Dakar Manifesto had a simple but unassailable claim: the total and unconditional cancellation of the odious African debt.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
For African/Black Working Class and Colonized Peoples, Midterm Elections in the U.S. Offer No Relief from War, Repression and Capitalist Misery
09 Nov 2022
The 50 year old neo-liberal agenda explains why political choices in this country provide little change that benefits the masses of people. The recent midterm election results will not bring about an improvement in the lives of the Black working class.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Why Democrats Don't Win The Way They Should
09 Nov 2022
The people prefer the initiatives which democrtatic party leadership claim to support. But their interests are those of the oligarchy and not of the voters. Slim margins of legislative victory bring compromise and gridlock which the leadership don't really oppose.
Kim Ives
Colia Clark Presente!
16 Nov 2022
Colia Clark was a veteran of the Black Liberation Movement who worked with Medgar Evers, who was also affiliated with the NAACP and who served as Executive Secretary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She was twice a Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate in New York…
Socialist Movement of Workers of the Dominican Republic
Statement and Petition Against Inhumane Deportation of Haitian Migrants from the Dominican Republic
16 Nov 2022
Oppression of Haitians in the Dominican Republic intensifies, as deportations and discrimination against Dominicans of Haitian descent continues. The Socialist Workers Movement of the Dominican Republic statement and petition explains.