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The Radical Practicality of Community Control Over Policing: A Reply to Our Critics
03 Mar 2021
Once we are able to secure Community Control over Police and ensure that entire communities are empowered to exercise such control, we will be free to re-imagine and re-envision the very nature of policing itself. “Our goal is ‘community control, whether over public safety, land, budgets, or…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Real Problem with Joy Ann Reid
06 Jun 2018
“It is interesting that she gets scrutiny for all the wrong reasons.” “One of the more amazing outcomes of the Trump administration is the number of neoconservatives that are now my friends and I am aligned with. I found myself agreeing on a panel with Bill Kristol. I agree more with Jennifer Rubin…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Who Protects the People from the Human Rights Protectors?
26 Feb 2025
Can Palestinians get a little Humanitarian Intervention?
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
LETTER: An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Y. Davis, James Baldwin, 1970
26 Feb 2025
James Baldwin on white madness–and Black resistance.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Gimme, gimme, gimme …
26 Feb 2025
"Gimme, gimme, gimme…" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney, Jr.’s Book, “From Rights to Lives”
26 Feb 2025
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured authors are Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney, Jr. Dr. Hamlin is Royce Family Associate Professor of Teaching Excellence in Africana Studies & History at Brown University. Dr.…
Kit Klarenberg
USAID Exported CIA Balkan Terror to Haiti
26 Feb 2025
After the CIA orchestrated the 2004 coup in Haiti, the U.S. ushered in a genocidal paramilitary organization from the Balkans to violently remove all resistance to regime change efforts.
Tamara Nassar
Palestinians Forced to Flee US-Armed Israeli Military in West Bank
26 Feb 2025
Israel initiated a massive assault against the West Bank, displacing tens of thousands of people. As the terror and destruction go on, settlers continue to steal land as part of Israel's expansionist goals.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Ukraine, War Propaganda, and the Return of Russiagate
26 Feb 2025
We must be able to acknowledge that Donald Trump has created a serious constitutional crisis while also recognizing that changing the U.S. relationship with Russia is groundbreaking and a necessity.
Clau O'Brien Moscoso , Austin Cole
The Struggle for a Zone of Peace Continues!: A Conversation with Austin Cole
26 Feb 2025
The newly launched U.S./NATO Out of the Americas Network activates local grassroots organizations across the region in an effort to make this hemisphere a Zone of Peace.