African America

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
PIMP: Paper In Militarists’ Pockets (Business as usual…)
24 Mar 2021
$13 billion aircraft carriers, $10 pencils and $500 hammers, renamed “portable hand-held transcribing devices” and “impact fasteners;” so war-profiteer pimps—war
Tim Madigan
Remembering Tulsa
24 Mar 2021
In 1921 thousands of whites attacked the Black population of Tulsa, Oklahoma with machine guns, airplanes, fire and pure hatred, killing at least 300.
Kayla Hui
The Answer to Anti-Asian Racism Is Not More Policing
24 Mar 2021
More policing rarely results in justice for anyone, and only puts Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color (BIPOC), including Asian people, at risk for more violence.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jean Casimir’s, “The Haitians: A Decolonial History”
24 Mar 2021
The worldview animating Haitian masses today is leading to a social context ungovernable within the framework of prevailing economic neo-liberalism.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Koni Benson’s “Crossroads: I Live Where I Like”
24 Mar 2021
This book challenges the myth that 1994 was the turning point in South Africa -- because the liberation process is unfinished.
Dr. Kweli Nzito
Is Systemic Racism a True Indicator of Cowardice?
24 Mar 2021
The craven fear of truth in imperial zones, bordering on psychopathic dread, has sustained systemic racism and hegemonic power domestically and globally.
Franklin Frederick
Cuba’s Contributions in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic
24 Mar 2021
The Cuban Revolution has shown that when limited resources are distributed equitably and with an emphasis on people and prevention, public health outcomes previously unimaginable can be achieved.
Dr. David Pleasant
That New Old Spook Show
24 Mar 2021
Savannah is is trying to create a renaissance of profit with live bodies portraying Gullah Geechee, enslaved Africans or immigrant indentures plodding through a mod-gothic spook show.
Reviewed by Michael Steven Smith
Bruce Levine’s “Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice“
24 Mar 2021
Rep Thaddeus Stevens was an unyielding proponent of the nationalization of the large southern plantations and the redistribution of that land to Black people.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of Monday, March 22, 2021
22 Mar 2021
Cuban Socialist Internationalist Medicine Puts Capitalist Countries to Shame