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Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
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Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
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Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
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Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
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Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
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Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
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Howie Hawkins
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- Gary PellerConservative activists have branded all race reform efforts in education and employment as CRT.
- Tamar Sarai DavisThe ‘slavery clause’ made the passage of restrictions targeting Black people like the Black Codes possible as well as convict leasing of the late 19th century.
- by the Socialist Movement of Ghana’s Research GroupNeither the Organization of African Unity nor the African Union have been able to realize the two most important principles of pan-Africanism: political unity and territorial sovereignty.
- Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum EditorThe author examines postwar violence through the activism of Afro-Nicaraguan women and men from the Caribbean coast of the country.
- Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum EditorHistorically, most of Britain’s policing hasn’t taken place on the British mainland – it has taken place in its colonies.