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Caitlin Johnstone
Electoral Politics Use The Same Containment Strategies As Alzheimer’s Facilities
10 Feb 2021
The US electoral system is like a dementia facility run by Democratic Party staff members pretending to want the same thing we want. “It’s a locked facility.”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 8, 2021
08 Feb 2021
Activists Seed Public Schools With Black Liberation Curriculum
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Political Party Puts Grassroots Organizing First
08 Feb 2021
Although the Baltimore-based Ujima People’s Progress Party has engaged in electoral politics during its decade of operations, its focus is grassroots organizing, mutual aid, and political education
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Activists Seed Public Schools With Black Liberation Curriculum
08 Feb 2021
The Ida B Wells Education Project has begun “centering Black liberation movements” in the classroom curriculum of a growing number of public schools, said Peta Lindsay, a founder o
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Never Ending COVID Crisis
03 Feb 2021
Profits determine the US response to a health care crisis, so Americans are in trouble regardless of who occupies the White House.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Destin Jenkins and Justin Leroy’s “Histories of Racial Capitalism”
03 Feb 2021
Racial capitalism is insidious and malleable, and can adapt to nearly any political context.
Renée Feltz
Building Solidarity
03 Feb 2021
Mutual aid tends to expose the reality that people lack what they need, while also creating spaces to meet those needs and build a shared analysis.
Todd Steven Burroughs
Book Review: The Prologue, The Prototype, The O.G. Hater
03 Feb 2021
Hubert Henry Harrison was a Black intellectual inferno, a warrior in the cause of a race- and class-based politics.
Jacob Whiton
Where Trumpism Lives
27 Jan 2021
Support for pro-Trump Republicans remains driven by relatively well-off whites in fast-growing, rapidly diversifying suburbs – not by economic despair in rural America.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Return to the Source: Democracy is Dead
20 Jan 2021
By what stretch of the imagination can the US be a democracy when ordinary citizens have virtually no influence over what their government does?