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Clau O'Brien Moscoso
Peru’s Black Misleadership Class Complicit with Coup Regime and International Far Right
12 Jul 2023
The U.S. isn't the only country with a duplicitous Black political class. The coup government in Peru has Black "leaders" who protect and defend the right wing who ousted an elected president and violate the people's human rights.
Jon Jeter
Mourning Mutulu Shakur and the Black Radical Tradition that Modernized America
12 Jul 2023
The late Mutulu Shakur and other Black radicals were responsible for improving the lives of millions of people in the U.S. The counter revolution ended that period of progress, but the political crisis they created forced systemic change on a grand scale.
Jacqueline Luqman
The History Of Affirmative Action Exposes Its Reactionary Weaknesses
12 Jul 2023
Affirmative action began as a reparations program but ends as a "diversity" project which barely benefits Black people.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Matthieu Chapman’s Book, “Shattered”
12 Jul 2023
This week’s featured author is Matthieu Chapman. Chapman is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz and the Literary Director of NY Classical Theatre.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Homegoing for Harry…
12 Jul 2023
“Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. …
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The UK-Rwanda Pact to Keep Migrants from Crossing the English Channel
12 Jul 2023
The UK is spearheading a European drive to outsource migrants to Rwanda.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: American Imperialism and the British West Indies, Claudia Jones, 1958
12 Jul 2023
Claudia Jones reminds us of the progressive potential of the failed West Indies Federation. But her analysis unwittingly anticipated the rise of its bourgeois descendant, CARICOM.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The State's Constant Attack on Black Liberation
12 Jul 2023
Indictments, disruptions, arrests, defamation, incarceration and even assassination are the weapons used to discredit Black people who act in opposition to the system and who call for liberation. They will always be targets of state persecution and prosecution.
Eugene Puryear
Eritrea: The Story You Don't Hear
19 Jul 2023
Eritrea is an African success story. The nation provides for its peoples needs despite the impact of sanctions imposed by the west which are meant to undermine its sovereignty.
Julia Wright
Nahel's France: Neo-Colonized and Pan-African Voices Speak Up
19 Jul 2023
The police killing of Nahel M. in France cannot be properly analyzed outside of the context of French colonialism and neo-colonialism.