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Julie Yixia Cai, Dean Baker
Black and Asian American Workers Falling Behind in Getting Back Jobs
22 Sep 2021
Economic recovery is uneven, with Black workers least likely to be employed in the wake of the covid pandemic.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Durban and 9/11: The Implications for a New Politics of Resistance
15 Sep 2021
Another twenty-year anniversary is the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) that took place in Durban, South Africa between August 31, and September 8. The George W.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Racial Prejudice in Cuba
15 Sep 2021
Contemporary conversations about racism in Cuba appear to have forgotten what it was like for Africans on the island republic before the Revolution.
Roberto Sirvent
BAR Book Forum: Nitasha Sharma’s Book, “Hawaiʻi Is My Haven”
15 Sep 2021
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book.
Don Rojas
Historic Africa/CARICOM Summit
15 Sep 2021
African and Caribbean heads of government held an historic virtual meeting to strengthen international partnerships and gain true independence from neo-colonial control.
Erica Caines
The Limits of "Lived Experience"
15 Sep 2021
The mantra of "lived experience" can be a dangerous cover for reactionary politics.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
U.S. is Waging Domestic War and Preparing for More
08 Sep 2021
A new report on cost of US domestic and international militarization brings the domestic situation into sharp focus.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Judge Blocks Sale of Historic African Cemetery: Poor People’s Rev. Barber Calls for End to Desecration at Moses Cemetery
08 Sep 2021
Activists secure a legal victory in the fight to save the Moses African Cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland.
Patrick D. Anderson
The Theory of Intersectionality Emerges out of Racist, Colonialist Ideology, Not Radical Politics—Rethinking the CRT Debate Part 3
08 Sep 2021
Recent debates about Critical Race Theory (CRT) have been abysmally uninformed at best and utterly inaccurate at worst.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Bird, strings, Big Chief: 100: Harlem (For Charlie Parker/Donald Harrison/Harlem Symphony Orchestra)
08 Sep 2021
Bird, strings, Big Chief: 100: Harlem (For Charlie Parker/Donald Harrison/Harlem Symphony Orchestra) Gathering witnesses bearing beautiful collisions—