US Politics

Aurin Squire
The Blue Wall Of Silence
30 Sep 2020
A majority of New York City cops are non-white, but their union endorsed the re-election of Donald Trump, with no loud protest from the darker ranks.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Breonna Taylor and Black Life
30 Sep 2020
Reactions to the Breonna Taylor murder, settlement and verdict all have one thing in common: Black people’s inability to protect our lives.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The China and Africa Connection U.S. Imperialism Does Not Want You to Know About
30 Sep 2020
The US sows hysteria about China because Washington can no longer dictate global affairs without any significant challenge.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Who is Rwanda’s Real Hero? Paul Kagame or Paul Rusesabagina?
30 Sep 2020
What Kagame has done to Rusesabagina, of Hotel Rwanda fame, embarrasses the US foreign policy establishment that has lionized his brutal regime for so long, writes Ann Garrison.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
‘Anarchist jurisdiction’ State of Mind…
30 Sep 2020
Some thugs like to Lie all day— strip our rights away,
Black Alliance For Peace
Why We Focus on Africa
30 Sep 2020
Africa can’t demonstrate independence and power because the entire continent has a giant U.S. military boot on its neck.
Deborah L. Bowen and Tryon P. Woods
Hamilton and the Minstrel Show Remix
30 Sep 2020
Hamilton has sent white people with emotional investments in not being racist over-the-moon.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
30 Sep 2020
This week the governments of Mexico and Rwanda, the dictatorship of capital in the US, and this dictatorship’s wars in Africa were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: GerShun Avilez’s “Black Queer Freedom”
30 Sep 2020
The author helps us think about Blackness, queerness, and artistic production in new lights.
Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent
Health Justice and Black Liberation: Ugo Edu
30 Sep 2020
State violence directly impacts communities’ and individual’s ability to feel well, safe, dignified, respected, and valued.