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Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Prison Officials Encourage Recidivism
19 Nov 2018
The nation’s best known political prisoner says prison officials don’t want to break the cycle of recidivism that sends former inmates back to confinement.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Liberation Theology is a Force in Islam
19 Nov 2018
Throughout the Muslim world, the poor struggle against entrenched elites over the nature of a just society,” said Shadaab Rahemtulla, a professor at the University of Jordan and au
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Walidah Imarisha’s “Angels With Dirty Faces“and Vincent Lloyd’s “Religion of the Field Negro”
14 Nov 2018
Our authors explore the evils of incarceration and the promise of Black liberation theology.
Barbara Foley
Intersectionality: A Marxist Critique
14 Nov 2018
The author argues that “intersectionality is less valuable as an explanatory framework than as an ideological reflection of the times.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Hip Hop Forges Black and Native American Solidarity
13 Nov 2018
Kyle Mays, who teaches at the African American Studies Department and the Native American Center at UCLA, says Hip Hop “builds solidarity between the two communities,” which share
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
On Rage, Reading Books, and Other Necessities for the “Millennial Generation”
07 Nov 2018
Young people in the US are increasingly open to socialism and radical ideas, but less likely to study the science of revolutionary change.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Et tu, RT? Amplifying Western Disinformation on Rwanda
07 Nov 2018
The Great Lie about the Rwandan bloodbath opened the door to a far larger genocide in Congo and justified US military interventions all over the planet.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tracy Sharpley-Whiting’s “Bricktop’s Paris“ and Magdalena J. Zaborowska’s “Me and My House”
07 Nov 2018
Our authors explore the Black experience in Europe, past and present, and mine the deep reservoir of wisdom that is James Baldwin.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Bernie and Barbara: What’s Wrong With This Picture?
31 Oct 2018
How can Bernie Sanders or Barbara Lee keep any of their social democratic promises while scapegoating Russia?
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: American Terror Is Not New
30 Oct 2018
The casual, endemic and racist violence that characterizes American behavior at home and abroad cannot be laid at the doorstep of the current buffoon in the White House.