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Linda Burnham
The Activist Roots of Black Feminist Theory
06 Jan 2021
Intersection theory insists on the simultaneity of condition, the both/and of Black women’s oppression.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Yelena Bailey’s “How the Streets Were Made”
16 Dec 2020
The streets permeate dominant understandings of Blackness, and the life-and-death consequences of these perceptions are at the heart of this book.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Grace A. Musila’s Book, “Wangari Maathai's Registers of Freedom”
16 Dec 2020
Maathai’s approach to environmental conservation centers poor rural communities, especially women, and their need for fuel, fodder and income
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Cuomo Wins an Emmy for Being an Effective Weapon of Corporate Power
10 Dec 2020
While liberals celebrate Biden and Cuomo at brunch, the situation for the growing class of “have-nots” in the U.S. and around the world becomes more grim.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
$election postmortem
10 Dec 2020
It was the Latino Vote… No, it was the Latinix vote! No, it was Black Women! No, it was LGBTQ+ Black Women! No, it was Red State Soccer Moms!
Don Fitz
What Does the Esau Revolution Despise?
10 Dec 2020
The Democrats’ relentless suppression of the Green Party affected the mind-set of more voters than all the right-wing howls put together.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: B. Brian Foster’s “I Don’t Like the Blues”
10 Dec 2020
What happens if we really pay attention to what black folks in the rural South are saying and doing in their everyday lives?
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford , Rebecca Ann Wilcox
Beware Biden-Harris Neoliberalism
08 Dec 2020
Corporate Democrats may be more dangerous than overt racists, because neoliberals “cloak themselves in the rhetoric of ‘racial uplift,’” said Rebecca Ann Wilcox, a community organi
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
BLM Chapters Demand “Accountability” from Trio that Cashed in on the Movement
03 Dec 2020
Ten chapters of the national Black Lives Matter organization are in open revolt against the individuals that have treated the mass movement as their personal vehicle for upward political, professio
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jessica Gordon Nembhard’s “Collective Courage”
02 Dec 2020
Many of the great African American thinkers, movers, and shakers were also leaders in the Black cooperative movement.