Major League Baseball’s recent moves to recognize the contributions of the Negro league teams they once excluded amount to only “the beginning stages of any kind of restitutive or reparative justice and wouldn’t even come close to restoring” the Black players and teams to their proper place in history, said Josh Myers, professor of Afro American Studies at Howard University. “Baseball was not just a pastime for Black people,” said Myers. “It was on the baseball diamond where community was forged, where people came together” during American apartheid.
The importance of the Epstein files cannot be underestimated. They provide a view not just of scandal and sex trafficking but of international ruling class corruption.
“...this Caribbean Anti-Imperialist Conference..resolves..to work steadfastly for a democratic, anti-imperialist Caribbean union.”
Michael Parenti's legacy is clarity. He taught that U.S. policies like the drug war are successful strategies for maintaining power and profit.
"Minnesota 9 — now say their names: pastor, lawyer, journalists and resistance leaders" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Marisa Solomon. Solomon is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and…
