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The State Repression of U.S. Settler Colonialism in The South: BAP ATLANTA STATEMENT
25 Jan 2023
The plan for an Atlanta police training facility known as "Cop City" is the latest phase of state repression in that region.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Cop City Kills Before It Opens
25 Jan 2023
What could possibly go wrong with a $90 million, 85-acre police training ground that the community doesn't want? Someone could be killed, and that happened before Atlanta's awful Cop City project has…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Stand in solidarity with our Councilmember (Versus voices of white supremacy/death…)
25 Jan 2023
Stand in solidarity with our Councilmember (Versus voices of white supremacy/death…)
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Christopher D. E. Willoughby’s Book, “Masters of Health”
25 Jan 2023
This week’s featured author is Christopher D. E. Willoughby. Willoughby is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine Health at Pitzer College. His book is Masters of Health: Racial…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Keith Davis, Jr. and Black Political Corruption
18 Jan 2023
Baltimore police continued to falsely accuse an innocent man when they shot and nearly killed him after the Freddie Gray uprisings. Prosecutors as always helped to carry out the dirty deeds. Having…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Damien M. Sojoyner’s Book, “Joy and Pain”
11 Jan 2023
This week’s featured author is Damien M. Sojoyner. Sojoyner is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. His book is Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Adam Bledsoe
04 Jan 2023
This week’s featured scholar is Adam Bledsoe. Bledsoe is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota. His article “Neither Ground on Which to Stand, nor Self to Defend: The…
Jacqueline Luqman
Film Review: Netflix’s ‘Descendant’ Shows Capitalism Continues to Oppress African Descendants
04 Jan 2023
The trans-Atlantice slave trade did not end with the 1808 ban. The Clotilda arrived in 1860 and the descendants of those enslaved people are impacted by that history, as are all African people in the…
Jesse Barber , Simon McCormack
A Racial Disparity Across New York That is Truly Jarring
04 Jan 2023
Black people are disproportionately convicted of felonies across New York State. In Manhattan, a Black person is 21 times more likely to be convicted of a crime than a white person.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Brittney Griner and the U.S. State
14 Dec 2022
Brittney Griner's ordeal in Russia is over. But she has been secreted away for "reintegration" and the U.S. continues its own brand of international hostage taking.