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New Ebola Drugs Show Exciting Promise With Up To 90 Percent Cure Rate
14 Aug 2019
A breakthrough in the fight against one of the world’s most terrifying diseases.
Lizzie Presser
Why Are So Many Black Families Losing Their Land?
17 Jul 2019
The Reels brothers spent eight years in jail for refusing to leave their plot of land in North Carolina.
Stephen Corry
Too Many Africans?
17 Jul 2019
To address “overpopulation,” the richer countries must do two things – consume less and stop stealing Africa’s resources.
Rachel M. Cohen
We Have to Finance a Global Green New Deal – Or Face the Consequences
26 Jun 2019
How much money is the US and other rich countries willing to transfer to poor countries to reduce carbon emissions?
Patrick Walker
Climate Terrorism: The Politically Farsighted Way to Impeach Trump
05 Jun 2019
By focusing on climate terrorism, Democrats could show voters that they care more about the common good than their self-serving Russiagate narrative.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Stop Sanders: The Year of the Corporate Long Knives
25 Apr 2019
It is inconceivable that the Lords of Capital will tolerate a financial industry-slayer in the White House. They will thwart his campaign – by any means necessary.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
20 Mar 2019
Double standards in the criminal justice system, the relationship between feminism and sex work as well as between reparations and immigrants were on readers’ minds this week. The top responses ca
Jonathan Lambert
Study Finds Racial Gap Between Who Causes Air Pollution And Who Breathes It
13 Mar 2019
Air pollution is disproportionately caused by white Americans' consumption of goods and services, but disproportionately inhaled by blacks and Hispanics.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Black Stake in the Green New Deal
07 Mar 2019
Black people should see the Green New Deal as an arena of struggle for self-determination, communal repair, and justice-creation.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Abolition Spotlight Editor
BAR Abolition Spotlight: "Mia Mingus”
09 Jan 2019
Prison abolition and reform are compatible “when reform is done in service of abolition." “State violence and intimate violence are deeply connected.”