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Al Mayadeen
'Israel' Commits Gruesome Massacre in Rafah Alleged Safe Zone
29 May 2024
Dozens of Palestinians were martyred and more were injured following the horrific and deliberate Israeli bombardment of forcibly displaced Palestinians living in tents in Rafah.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
If You Want to See White “Supremacy” at Work, Don’t go to a Trump Rally, Observe the Democrats’ Approach to Climate Change
29 May 2024
Despite the undeserved loyalty of Black people to the Democratic Party, lawmakers continue to push policy that ignores concerns about climate change and environmental damage in their communities.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen’s Book, “The Black Antifascist Tradition”
29 May 2024
This week’s featured authors are Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen. Their book is The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back From Anti-Lynching to Abolition.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Hearing! Hearing! Hearing!
29 May 2024
"Hearing! Hearing! Hearing!" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
POEM: Enemy of the Sun, Samih al-Qasim, 1970
29 May 2024
Read against the terrible incineration of Rafah today, this poem of resistance and refusal, by Palestinian poet Samih al-Qasim, is as powerful now as it was fifty years ago.
Shaka Shakur
Revolutionary Notes from the Western Front
05 Jun 2024
The international liberation struggles of colonized people in nations like Haiti, Palestine, as well as Indigenous nations on land stolen by the U.S., are inextricably linked to the struggle for the liberation of New Afrikan people.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Kenya’s President Ruto Defies His Own Country’s Constitution and High Court to Invade Haiti
29 May 2024
I spoke to William Sakawa, a producer and reporter with the Nairobi-based media outlet African Stream, about Kenyan President William Ruto’s agreement to invade Haiti for the US.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Biden Sliding Towards World War III
29 May 2024
The idea of a world war should not be relegated to science fiction. Western escalations in Ukraine could lead to conflict with a nuclear power.
Martina Manicastri , Sudip Bhattacharya
Letter: Why Vote Uncommitted: A Vote for Peace and Justice
29 May 2024
The Uncommitted Movement is the means through which voters across the country are resisting forced complicity in genocide and making it clear to the Democratic Party that their positions are not as safe as they believe.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Hardliner on the Hill: Senator Bob Menendez and US-Cuba Policy
05 Jun 2024
A Belly of the Beast documentary follows Afro-Cuban journalist Liz Oliva Fernández as she explores the Cuban American community and its relation to the long-running embargo on her country.