by BAR poet in residence Nathaniel Turner No fries for Ferguson, no burgers For Baltimore—have it your way…

by Paul Street The U.S. mass incarceration regime measures Black lives by the value that can be derived from their imprisonment. “The ‘new Jim Crow’ is about disciplining a deindustrialized Black…

Key Failures of the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare an Obstacle to Universal Health Care by our friends at This Is Hell Radio Trudy Lieberman: “We are replacing a crisis of un-insurance with a crisis…

by Danny Haiphong “Even if the second flag of white rule (the ‘American’ flag being the first) eventually comes down, the racist system that produced the Confederacy remains upright.” Symbolism is…

by Thomas Ruffin, Jr. The First Black U.S. President perpetuates the modern-day slavery of mass Black incarceration; “espouses, like Rush Limbaugh, an allegiance to ‘American exceptionalism;’”…