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Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Criticizing the Democratic Party is not “Privileged”, It is the Duty of a Revolutionary
07 Apr 2021
Neither AOC nor the rest of the Squad has mounted any significant challenge to the party’s corporate leadership, despite being elected for this exact purpose.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
PAMPHLET: Africa Fights for Freedom, Alpheaus Hunton, 1950
07 Apr 2021
A pamphlet written 70 years ago by an exiled Black American communist reveals an African continent seething to break free from European colonization.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rwanda and Zaire (DRC) 1990 to 1997, Where the US Blocked Real Humanitarian Intervention
07 Apr 2021
The real story of the Rwandan genocide begins in 1990, when exiled Tutsis from Uganda invaded northern Rwanda, unleashing a deadly campaign that uprooted a million Hutu peasants and set ethnic tens
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Testi-lyin’
07 Apr 2021
Northeast, midwest, southwest, south, down south, up south, out south—south of the Canadian border—Slouched down in his cruiser, slow-rollin’ the ‘hood; Or a-
Black Alliance For Peace
Biden-Harris Look Ready to Keep U.S. In Afghanistan—Say No!
07 Apr 2021
The new Democratic administration seems determined to sabotage an agreement to end the “longest war.”
Sylvie Laurent, interviewed by Arvind Dilawar
MLK Was a Radical Who Hated Not Only Racial Subordination But Class Exploitation
07 Apr 2021
King explicitly linked the value of human dignity to the material conditions necessary to enable people to live a decent life.
by Jahan Choudhry, Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
07 Apr 2021
In "On Anarchism and Black Revolution" Peter James Hudson examines the historical roots of critiques of anarchism and its relationship to Black liberation movements.
Troizel Carr
BAR Book Forum: Short Meditations on Christina Sharpe’s “In the Wake”
07 Apr 2021
Being in the wake, in the afterlives of slavery…is to be caught in the reverberating aftermath of a long disaster, a durational dance with danger, with terror.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Amandla Thomas-Johnson’s “Becoming Kwame Ture”
07 Apr 2021
The Stokely Carmichael of the 60s continued to politically and ideologically evolve while in Africa where he adopts the names of his political mentors Sekou Toure and Kwame Nkrumah.
Todd Cronan
Fanon Can’t Save You Now
07 Apr 2021
The great revolutionary foresaw the need to “rapidly switch from a national consciousness to a social and political consciousness” committed to the “distribution of wealth and social relations.”