US Politics

Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Racism In and Against China
22 Apr 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has resuscitated the old “yellow peril” canard to its fullest extent, revealing deep xenophobia and racist intent against China.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
U.S. Response to COVID-19 Equals Genocide for Blacks, but “Progressive” Leaders Offer Nothing But Words
22 Apr 2020
AOC and Bernie Sanders made public condemnations of the corporate bailout but did little in the way of resistance.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Pentagon Brass Can Kiss My Ass
22 Apr 2020
The coronavirus-stricken crew of the USS Roosevelt would be more useful making N-95 masks, building housing for people living on the streets, and tilling community gardens to prepare for suppl
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
I had a nightmare (For friend/fellow Poet Genny Lim)
22 Apr 2020
I had a nightmare that down in Mississippi, its governor having his lips dripping with words of Social Darwinism, Herd immunity and Mengele Medicine,
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The Black Plague
22 Apr 2020
The rapidity with which the pandemic has consumed black communities provides an unvarnished look into the dynamics of race and class that existed long before it emerged
João Costa Vargas and Ana Flauzina
Antiblackness of the Pandemic in the US and Brazil
22 Apr 2020
At the heart of health disparities is antiblackness, a social code that renders Black people disposable.
Dean Spade and Roberto Sirvent, BAR Contributors
BAR Abolition & Mutual Aid Spotlight: La Resistencia
22 Apr 2020
Public pressure works. Some local entities are not willing to work with ICE anymore.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Joshua Bennett’s “Being Property Once Myself”
22 Apr 2020
Black thought is environmental thought and Black Studies is, at its core, an ecological critique.
Linn Washington
Wrong On Weed – Blacks And Marijuana Myths
22 Apr 2020
Black state lawmakers helped scuttle efforts to legalize marijuana in the Garden State and Black preachers have been huge impediments to legalization.
Vijay Prashad, Weiyan Zhu, and Du Xiaojun
Truth and Propaganda About Coronavirus
22 Apr 2020
It is unclear if China could have done anything different as it faced an unknown virus.