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Phil Wilayto
Crisis & Cover-up at Red Onion Super-Max
27 Nov 2024
Red Onion Prison in Virginia has the same history of racism, brutal violence, and inhumane conditions that characterize the entire mass incarceration system. But recently men held there in solitary…
Akela Lacy
After Michael Brown’s Killing, Wesley Bell Called for “Accountability on Both Sides” in Ferguson Racism
14 Aug 2024
The AIPAC-backed challenger to Rep. Cori Bush also said the decision not to release Darren Wilson’s side of the story was “tragic.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Sitting Shiva in South Florida for Our souls/slivers of democracy …
27 Mar 2024
"Sitting Shiva in South Florida for Our souls/slivers of democracy …" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Racist Asylum and Immigration Policy in the U.S. and Canada
06 Mar 2024
Fears of an “invasion” at the border are nothing more than white supremacy being openly expressed. It could not be otherwise in a settler colony created by migration from Europe. To millions of…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor , Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
BAR Book Forum: Charisse Burden-Stelly’s Book, “Black Scare / Red Scare”
01 Nov 2023
This week’s featured author is Charisse Burden-Stelly. Burden-Stelly is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Her book is Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing…
Jemima Pierre , Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús
White Supremacy
18 Jan 2023
White supremacy should not be identified solely with self-proclaimed white nationalists. It is a centuries old, international, economic, and political system that cannot be eradicated with slogans…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Ghost Stories of Capitalism: Racism is REAL, and It’s a Class Struggle
14 Dec 2022
From culture wars to identity politics, it's easy to get sucked into toxic rhetoric and forget the reality of racism staring the US in the face.
Kenny Stancil
Investigation Shows Hundreds of US Cops Being Trained by Far-Right Extremists
11 May 2022
Policing in the United States is inherently racist and right wing. But individual members of right wing groups are also training police officers across the country.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Race and The Great American Death Divide
27 Apr 2022
It is not surprising that a settler colonial state would practice racism for centuries or that race would be the major factor determining who lives and who dies.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Russia, Ukraine, and the Race Problem
09 Mar 2022
The American public are inundated with anti-Russian war propaganda that is worse than in the days of the Red Scare.