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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Shana Redmond’s “Everything Man”
19 Feb 2020
It takes many voices from a world of disciplines to tell the story of Paul Robeson, the supreme talent ad intellect that the US State attempted to erase from history.
Global Information Network
Nigeria Jailing Journalists
19 Feb 2020
Stories that embarrass high officials can earn reporters treason charges, imprisonment and death.
Jeff Bryant
How Corporations Are Forcing Their Way Into America’s Public Schools
19 Feb 2020
Public school students are being “trained” for jobs at specific corporations rather than educated for a lifetime in a changing world.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Aishah Shahidah Simmons’ “Love WITH Accountability”
12 Feb 2020
Simmons explores ways we can hold harm-doers accountable without getting involved with the very state that brutalizes Black and other communities of color.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Bloomberg Becoming Oligarch-in-Chief of Democratic Party
06 Feb 2020
If Sanders wins the nomination, Michael Bloomberg and his filthy rich brethren are already preparing to fund and erect an alternative structure of dependable corporate governance.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents
04 Feb 2020
US presidents range from very bad to less bad, but none were “good” for Black people – including the first Black one.
Alex Alston
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
04 Feb 2020
Black studies is a conceptual movement that is trying to catch up to it’s more sensual and less formal cousin, black music.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ben Conisbee Baer’s “Indigenous Vanguards”
04 Feb 2020
Spending time in worlds of the past opens a window on how things changed, or stubbornly remained unchanged.
Linn Washington Jr.
N.J. historic preservation officials insult the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
04 Feb 2020
New Jersey was the site of a young Dr King’s very first formal protest and lawsuit, but the state refuses to recognize the events.
Cornel West and Mordecai Lyon
Cornel West on Missing Zinn
04 Feb 2020
On the tenth anniversary of radical historian Howard Zinn’s death, Cornel West opens up about their friendship and what Zinn would have made of the decade – including whether he would have voted fo