by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner The US political landscape, explains the poet, teems with deadly, dangerous and toxic notions and figures whom we are told to embrace.

by Bryan K. Bullock The purported “risks” that police voluntarily take are transferred to their Black and brown victims, who have no practical protections.  Legal settlements do not balance the…

by Eric Draitser CNN’s Chris Cuomo acted as if Green Party vice presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka had committed a crime in calling President Obama an “Uncle Tom.” However, “even a cursory analysis…

by Mumia Abu-Jamal August is a month to assess and build upon the legacy of Black people’s resistance to the armed repression of the U.S. state and its agents. The author, the nation’s best known…

by James Kilgore The Obama administration’s announcement that it would phase out private federal prisons is symbolically important, but will affect only a small slice of the nation’s huge…