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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
“Black August” Honors Captives of Armed Struggle
10 Aug 2020
“Black August started in San Quentin to highlight the armed struggle,” said Jihad Abdulmumit, chairperson of the Jericho Movement, which advocates for political prisoners.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
“We Need a National Industrial Commission, a Permanent One”
05 Aug 2020
Like the first Covd-19 relief package, the pending bill will have been written by “sleep-deprived staff and inattentive lawmakers who are making this all up on the fly.”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
“Minneapolis Uprising Syllabus” Tells Why That City Sparked National Rebellion
03 Aug 2020
Adam Bledsoe, a professor of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota, has compiled a comprehensive “Minneapolis Uprising Syllabus” containing articles and
Joy James
Airbrushing Revolution for the Sake of Abolition
29 Jul 2020
“Interest convergence” and “pragmatic compromise” are euphemisms for what might better be called opportunism and truth-avoidance.
Anima Adjepong
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
29 Jul 2020
The lesson is to remain woke, because not all abolitionists share the goal of Black liberation.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Erika Edwards’s “Hiding in Plain Sight”
29 Jul 2020
Anti-blackness manifests as black invisibility in Argentina, a society that was determined to marginalize and discriminate against Black women.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
“This is the Scene of a Crime”: An African Artist/Activist Journey, Part II
29 Jul 2020
An interview with Dr. Karen Wilson- Ama’Echefu.
Belinda Davis
The Poor People’s Economic and Human Right Campaign: a Case for How Change Works
29 Jul 2020
With no well-financed publicity department and no links to the machinery of big party politics, movements like PPEHRC can sometimes seem lost in plain sight.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Political Prisoners are the Best of Humanity: Free Them All
27 Jul 2020
The Black Is Back Coalition’s upcoming national conference, August 15 and 16, will highlight the demand for freedom for all political prisoners, said Coalition chairman Omali Yeshitela
The Public Archive
Black Struggle and the New Society: An interview with C.L.R. James
22 Jul 2020
In a 1977 interview, the renowned Trinidadian writer, historian and socialist assessed the state of Black struggle in the Caribbean, the United States and Africa.