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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Patricia Pinho’s “Mapping Diaspora”
18 Sep 2019
Transnational black solidarity has been a central component of African American roots tourism in Brazil, even as international tourism also allows for the enactment of first-world subjectivities.
Mark P. Fancher
“Operation Brown Nose” -- U.S. Aids French Dirty Work in Africa
18 Sep 2019
The U.S. has gone extra miles to support French military efforts to protect uranium mining in Niger.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Joseph Drexler-Dreis’s “Decolonial Love”
11 Sep 2019
Colonial relations of power and ways of classifying human persons that were essential to political colonialism have persisted.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Foreign Aid for Rwanda, Suffering for Rwandans and Congolese
04 Sep 2019
Rwanda is treated as a showcase of US-allied Africa, but even western capitalists don’t believe dictator Paul Kagame’s economic numbers, and his own fortune comes from looting Congo.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tiffany King’s “The Black Shoals”
04 Sep 2019
Black abolition and Native decolonization have the unique capacity to end the “conquistador settler U.S. nation” and make way for something else.
Global Information Network
Gambians Glued to YouTube as President’s Hit Squad Confesses
04 Sep 2019
Deposed Gambian President Jahya Jammeh, a strong ally of the US, was a mass killer whose henchmen are now confessing on streaming media.
Ramzy Baroud
Israel's Scramble for Africa: Selling Water, Weapons and Lies
04 Sep 2019
Many African governments are giving Israel exactly what it wants – a way to break out of its isolation and legitimize its Apartheid.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Cheryl R. Rodriguez, Dzodzi Tsikata, and Akosua Adomako Ampofo’s “Transatlantic Feminisms”
28 Aug 2019
It is critical for Black feminists to be passionately involved in creating a global community of voices.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
From Iran to Mass Shootings on the Mainland, the U.S. Empire is in a State of Decay
14 Aug 2019
An empire in decay only becomes more violent and ruthless.
Afro-Descendents at Sao Paulo Forum
Afro-Descendents in the Americas Denounce Neo-Liberalism and Imperialism
14 Aug 2019
In Caracas, Venezuela, on July 28, 2019, Afro-Descended participants in the annual Sao Paulo Forum met to discuss the state of their various social movements.