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Jon Jeter
Ready For the Revolution But Unable to See It: Blacks Recognize Racism But Lack Game Plan to Fight It
30 Apr 2025
Black communities once turned righteous fury into systemic change, but today’s outrage over slights like Shedeur Sanders’ NFL draft slide rarely sparks organized resistance. The blueprint for liberation still exists; the question is whether we will dust it off or continue to mistake viral hashtags…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
March, March, March… (For Million Worker March and Brother Ray Quan)
30 Apr 2025
"March, March, March… (For Million Worker March and Brother Ray Quan)" is the latest from BAR's Poet-In-Residence.
U.N. Human Rights Watch
US: 20 Years of Immigrant Abuses: Under 1996 Laws, Arbitrary Detention, Fast-Track Deportation, Family Separation
30 Apr 2025
For two decades, draconian 1996 immigration laws have torn families apart—jailing long-term residents over minor offenses, fast-tracking deportations of asylum seekers, and fueling the cruel machine of immigrant detention. While the U.S. reckons with the harms of mass incarceration, these lesser-…
U.S. Peace Council
Trump Is the Symptom, U.S. Imperialism Is the Disease
30 Apr 2025
Trump’s brutality is just the latest flare-up of a bipartisan imperial evil—one that funds genocide in Gaza, war in Ukraine, and repression at home while both parties serve the same billionaire class. Real resistance means targeting the system, not just its loudest figurehead.
Kai Cash
Planting Seeds of Sovereignty: Lessons from the Sahel and Beyond
30 Apr 2025
When the West slaps on tariffs, it’s 'economic security'—but when the Sahel rejects exploitative deals, it’s called a threat. From Cuba to Burkina Faso, countries have fought for self-sufficiency: controlling their resources, supporting local industry, and breaking free from foreign domination.
Sean L. Malloy
How the creation of the ‘New Antisemitism’ was used to shield Israel and attack the Left
30 Apr 2025
Challenges to Zionism in the late 1960s and 1970s sparked an effort to redefine antisemitism focused on defending Israel while attacking the political Left. This resulted in the IHRA definition and the assault on Palestine activism we see today.
Dave DeCamp
Sixty-Eight Reported Killed by US Airstrike on African Migrant Facility in Yemen
30 Apr 2025
The detention facility appears to be the one that was previously targeted by the US-backed Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.
Red Malunga
Red Malunga Denounces Institutionalized Violence Against Haitian Migrants in the Dominican Republic
30 Apr 2025
As the Dominican Republic escalates its brutal crackdown on Haitian migrants and Dominicans of Haitian descent, Red Malunga condemns the racist policies fueling systemic violence and human rights abuses. The organization demands global solidarity to confront this 'social apartheid' and hold the…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The US/EU/NATO’s Regime Change Playbook for Burkina Faso and Captain Ibrahim Traoré
30 Apr 2025
The U.S. increases pressure on Burkina Faso through military propaganda, as Africans rise to protect the developing project.
Jon Jeter
The Only Language the White Settler Speaks: Ohio Police Say Grieving Black Father Avenges Son’s Slaying By Killing One of Theirs
07 May 2025
The killing of Timothy Thomas in 2001 ignited Cincinnati’s long-simmering tensions over police violence. This struggle continues today, forcing a painful question: When justice is denied, does violence become the only language of resistance?