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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
“Kwaito” Music Moves South African Youth
06 Jul 2020
Xavier Livermon, professor of African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, sees “many parallels” between the US-based Hip Hop phenomenon and the Kwaito music belo
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Celebrating the “Father of Black Liberation Theology”
06 Jul 2020
Theologian James Cone, who died two years ago, “sent shock waves throughout the Christian world” in 1969 when he published his book on Black liberation theology, said Matt Harris,
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
AFRICOM Enforces US Colonial Project
06 Jul 2020
“We see AFRICOM as the colonization of Africa by the US,” said Tunde Osazua, of the Bllack Alliance for Peace.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Russia, Afghanistan, and the Big Lie
01 Jul 2020
Far from being an enemy, Russia assisted the U.S. and its coalition in their fight against the Taliban.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Neocolonial African Conservation Inspired by “Tarzan”
01 Jul 2020
Ann Garrison responds to a critic of neocolonial nature “conservation” in Africa, and discusses US-backed threats to national sovereignty and all forms of life in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Syria, Corporate Media Lies, and the True Face of Imperialism: An Interview with Richard Medhurst
01 Jul 2020
If independent media want to be a real counterweight to establishment media, they must challenge the status quo in its entirety.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Amiri Poem for Boss Tweet
01 Jul 2020
Who tolt us ‘bout an unknown 19th of June— who the TikTok teens cast as buffoon? Who?
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
01 Jul 2020
This week community control of police and the failings of the Biden campaign were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Edward Onaci’s “Free the Land”
01 Jul 2020
The desire for US citizenship was never the sole consideration of African and African-descended people.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Movement to Abolish the Police Must Place Politics in Command
24 Jun 2020
Community control of the police offers a concrete vision for what the beginnings of police abolition might look like.