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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Koni Benson’s “Crossroads: I Live Where I Like”
24 Mar 2021
This book challenges the myth that 1994 was the turning point in South Africa -- because the liberation process is unfinished.
Dr. Kweli Nzito
Is Systemic Racism a True Indicator of Cowardice?
24 Mar 2021
The craven fear of truth in imperial zones, bordering on psychopathic dread, has sustained systemic racism and hegemonic power domestically and globally.
Franklin Frederick
Cuba’s Contributions in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic
24 Mar 2021
The Cuban Revolution has shown that when limited resources are distributed equitably and with an emphasis on people and prevention, public health outcomes previously unimaginable can be achieved.
Dr. David Pleasant
That New Old Spook Show
24 Mar 2021
Savannah is is trying to create a renaissance of profit with live bodies portraying Gullah Geechee, enslaved Africans or immigrant indentures plodding through a mod-gothic spook show.
Reviewed by Michael Steven Smith
Bruce Levine’s “Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice“
24 Mar 2021
Rep Thaddeus Stevens was an unyielding proponent of the nationalization of the large southern plantations and the redistribution of that land to Black people.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Ending Poverty in the United States
17 Mar 2021
President Franklin Roosevelt made profound changes in the US political-economic structure, while Joe Biden only does temporary patchwork on the late-stage capitalist carcass.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
New Cold War is Built on Humanitarian Interventionist Lies and Dismissal of Actual War Crimes
17 Mar 2021
To manufacture consent for its own constant aggressions the US claims its competitors are guilty of even greater crimes – sheer inventions that never happened.
The Editors, Black Agenda Review
Black Citizenship Forum: On Identity and Empire: France and the Colonial Roots of Black Citizenship
17 Mar 2021
You cannot simply declare yourself race free, racism free, and simply think that it will generate a race free or colorblind society.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Prominent Black Lives Matter Activists Stand in Solidarity with Deposed Tigrayan Puppets for US Imperialism
17 Mar 2021
Not only confused white “leftists,” but also Black Lives Matter activists have been conned into mouthing vicious CIA and State Department propaganda against Ethiopia and Eritrea, writes Ann Garriso
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
No mo’ Cuomo? (Kind of an apology)
17 Mar 2021
Kind of an apology: To the 15,000 families it was never personal— It was always business…