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Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Biden and the Low Point of Black Politics
27 May 2020
Black folks perform phenomenal feats of mental gymnastics and self-delusion to convince themselves that Joe Biden is on their side. “There is a strange magical thinking afoot that equates acknowledgement of Biden’s faults with support of Trump.”
Shim Award Committee
BAR Editors Receive Serena Shim Award
27 May 2020
Black Agenda Report editors Glen Ford, Margaret Kimberley, and Danny Haiphong are recipients of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromising Integrity in Journalism.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Michael Jordan’s “Last Dance:” A Celebration of the American Nightmare
27 May 2020
Michael Jordan embodies the kind of athlete and Black leader that the U.S. ruling class has gone to great lengths to cultivate. “ESPN expedited the documentary knowing that Jordan has served as a reliable ambassador of U.S. capital.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
For Breonna Taylor (And my Bry)
27 May 2020
How I wish I could sing her name like Brother Ray or ‘Ree— ‘Cause Breonna Taylor’s real close to Bryana Turner to me I wish I could sing her name like Abbey, Nina, or Big Paul— Celebrating the sunny June home birth I recall… I wish I could sing her name like Mahalia or Clara Ward— Feeling my…
Black Alliance For Peace
On African Liberation Day, the Black Alliance for Peace Demands U.S. Shut Down AFRICOM
27 May 2020
The US Military Command in Africa allows Washington and its European allies to dominate the continent and its resources. “The campaign calls on Africans throughout the diaspora to mark Soweto Day on June 16.” On the 57th anniversary of African Liberation Day (ALD), the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP…
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
27 May 2020
Recently, readers have been discussing democratic socialists, American exceptionalism, and identity politics.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Vincent Brown’s “Tacky’s Revolt”
27 May 2020
The Jamaican slave revolt of 1760-1761 was one war within an interlinked network of other wars. “The violence of imperial expansion and enslavement remade the history of Europe, Africa, and the Americas.”
Rhondda Robinson Thomas
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Sarah Haley’s "No Mercy Here"
27 May 2020
In white patriarchy-ruled South Carolina at the turn of the 20th century, manhood sometimes created temporary yet tenuous bonds between Black and white men. “White men authorized themselves to determine when Black men had suffered long enough in prison for engaging in consensual sex with a white…
Barbara Arnwine, Curtis Cooper and Adjoa A. Aiyetoro
The Spy Plane Over Baltimore is a Tool of Voter Suppression
27 May 2020
The eye-in-the-sky tells residents of the majority Black city that they are enemies of the state -- to be watched and, ultimately, crushed. “The spy plane steals any sense of belonging and says you are not a respected resident.”
Rohn Kenyatta
Once Dead, Thrice Killed
27 May 2020
The summary execution of my brothers, sisters, women, men and children is so commonplace that it becomes numbing ‘white’ noise in the minds of an entire continent. “Every time these executions occur it is the same playbook.”