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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Climate Crisis Will End When Capitalism Ends
30 Aug 2023
The climate emergency won't end because of heartfelt pleas to the people and the interests who created the crisis. Ecocide will stop when capitalism ends.
Dyana Bagby
11th Circuit Court Issues Stay in Favor of Atlanta in "Cop City" Referendum Case
06 Sep 2023
The petition process to put Cop City on the ballot in Atlanta continues, despite Atlanta public officials' insistence on building a so-called public safety training center that their constituents don't want.
Natalia Marques
Dilemmas of Humanity Conference in the US Outlines Principle Task: Organize a Working Class Movement to Defeat the Empire
06 Sep 2023
Socialists, organizers, and working class leaders in the United States describe the challenges the movement faces, and what is to be done to overcome them.
Jon Jeter
Hip Hop: A Global Lingua Franca for the Dispossessed
06 Sep 2023
Any celebration of the 50th anniversary of hip hop must reference its worldwide political appeal.
Jason England
50 Years Later, Is There Anything Left Of Hip Hop?
06 Sep 2023
Nothing is sacred under capitalism. Even hip hop, the genre which spoke to Black politics and culture is now just another commodity.
Essam Elkorghli
Libya’s Attempt to Normalize Relations with the Zionist Entity is a Multilayered Treason
06 Sep 2023
There are Arab governments going along with the U.S. push to normalize relations with Israel. But people throughout the region are adamantly opposed to such treachery, as the now suspended Foreign Minister of Libya discovered.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
How Joe Biden and The Democratic Party’s Climate Agenda Increases Environmental Racism More Than It Reduces Emissions [A Three Part Series]
06 Sep 2023
The environmental benefits of Biden's Inflation Reduction Act are non-existent for Black and other marginalized communities.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Rima Vesely-Flad’s Book, “Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition”
06 Sep 2023
This week’s featured author is Rima Vesely-Flad.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Regionally Integrating the Horn of Africa and the Nile Basin
06 Sep 2023
BAR Contributing Editor Ann Garrison spoke with Amanuel Biedemariam, author of The History of the USA in Eritrea, about regional integration in the Horn of Africa and the Nile Basin among Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female, Frances Beal, 1969
06 Sep 2023
Revisiting Frances Beal’s Black feminist theoretical tour-de-force.