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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Fall of Eric Adams
19 Feb 2025
Eric Adams has a multitude of legal and political problems that have ended any political ambitions he may have had. Donald Trump may have kept him from going to jail, but in seeking a lifeline from a…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
NYC’s Congestion Pricing Program Comes with the Cost of Sacrificing Constitutionally Mandated Human Rights of NYC’s Environmental Justice Communities
08 Jan 2025
NYC's new congestion pricing program has grave environmental justice implications for poor, working class, and Black communities which will be subjected to increased pollution and poor air quality.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
F Train Lynching: Papa Cop’s wink and nod
08 Jan 2025
"F Train Lynching: Papa Cop’s wink and nod" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Eric Adams and Daniel Penny Make Black People the Face of Crime
18 Dec 2024
Daniel Penny’s acquittal was not surprising, and neither is Mayor Eric Adams' defense of Penny and law enforcement power being used against Black people.
Jon Jeter
From Bernhard Getz to George Zimmerman to Daniel Penny: Using Vigilantes to Police a Racist Social Order
18 Dec 2024
The state and vigilante lynchings of Black men and boys in the U.S. are not merely an aberration or a momentary relapse on the nation’s path to racial equality. They are part of the toolbox of…
Jon Jeter
The White Settlers’ Bizarre Economic Strategy of Terrorizing Black People
11 Dec 2024
Jordan Neely's killing and the subsequent acquittal of Daniel Penny can be seen as part of the reactionary existential panic felt by whites whenever the country experiences growing economic…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Eric Adams and the Death of Black Politics
09 Oct 2024
The indictment of New York City mayor Eric Adams is the latest example of moribund Black politics. Rich donors and corporate media decide who will be elected to office, while the people’s needs go…
Imani Nile
End the Siege on NYC
02 Oct 2024
New York City is a case study of how imperialist violence abroad and state violence domestically are two sides of the same coin. The unfortunate stories of Derrell Mickles and Jordan Neely capture…
Noah Shachtman
The Secretive Alliance Between the New York Post and Eric Adams
02 Oct 2024
Rupert Murdoch’s paper helped elect Adams and hasn’t quite given up on him yet.
Benjamin Weiser , Maria Cramer
N.Y.P.D. Unwilling to Impose Discipline for Stop and Frisk, Report Says
25 Sep 2024
The department’s discipline for illegal street detentions is lax at every level, according to an extraordinary review ordered by a federal judge.