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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Celeste Winston’s Book “How to Lose the Hounds”
20 Sep 2023
This week’s featured author is Celeste Winston.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Little Rock Antioch’s RICO blu klux klan
06 Sep 2023
Little Rock Antioch’s RICO blu klux klan (For Franklin, the Families, and Antioch’s Fightback)
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Policing the Police in the East Bay Area
23 Aug 2023
Acts of police brutality and other forms of misconduct are common throughout the country. The East Bay Area of California is exceptional only in that some officers have been indicted for a variety of…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: El Jones’s Book, “Abolitionist Intimacies”
18 Jan 2023
This week’s featured author is El Jones. Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She teaches at Mount Saint Vincent University, where she was named the…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Protesting for Jayland Walker
06 Jul 2022
The number of bullets used to kill Jayland Walker have sparked an outcry, but police kill one Black person every day in this country. If systemic change is not the demand all protest is for naught.
Roberto Sirvent and Julian Akil Rose
“The connections between policing and militaristic assault on the world are endless”: An Interview with Julian Akil Rose
01 Jun 2022
BAR Book Forum editor Roberto Sirvent and Julian Akil Rose discuss community organizing, Black Queer Feminism, the struggle for police and prison abolition, and an end to militarism.
Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
Automating Banishment: The Surveillance and Policing of Looted Land, a New Report from the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
26 Jan 2022
Surveillance is an integral part of policing in this country.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Thousands of Police Killings Are Unreported
06 Oct 2021
Police killings of Black people are a feature of American law enforcement and they are deliberately under counted.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Abolish Police, from the US to Nigeria
02 Feb 2021
Crystal, a first-generation US citizen of Nigerian descent and activist with the Assata Collective, supports the abolition of police in both countries.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Abolish the Police
11 Dec 2019
Trump’s attorney general threatened to withdraw police “protection” from Black communities – but, of course, no such thing exists.