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Shaka Shakur
#WE TOO
08 Jul 2020
If there can be no peace without justice, then there can never be peace while the US Prison Gulag exists. “Prison Lives Matter as Black Lives Matter!!!” “There shall neither be slavery nor involuntary servitude unless duly convicted of a crime.” -- 13th Amendment of U.S. Constitution
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
08 Jul 2020
This week you discussed Thanksgiving, the George Floyd protests, and allegations about Russian involvement in Afghanistan.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Christel Temple’s “Black Cultural Mythology”
08 Jul 2020
Black Cultural Mythology imagines a world where Africana cultural memory is an intellectual field with its own agency that does not rely on other cultures’ models to sustain itself. “This book reacquaints us with an overlooked intellectual tradition of Africana cultural memory.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Andrew J. Douglas’s “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Critique of the Competitive Society”
08 Jul 2020
Du Bois appears to have anticipated the coming of the neoliberal dystopia. “Black colleges are needed as institutions that expose and challenge the false ideologies and violent practices of a dying civilization.”
Marlene Daut
When France Extorted Haiti – the Greatest Heist in History
08 Jul 2020
The indemnity Haiti paid to France is the first and only time a formerly enslaved people were forced to compensate those who had once enslaved them. “The median annual income of a French family is $31,112, but it’s only $450 for a Haitian family.” In the wake of George Floyd’s killing, there have…
Stephen Sefton
Nicaragua – How Phony Human Rights Groups Slandered a U.S.-Targeted Nation
08 Jul 2020
Nicaragua's case is a text-book example of how genuine human rights research has been subverted so as to produce highly biased reports. “The human rights industry markets itself dishonestly, but very powerfully, as if it were driven by humanitarian concern rather than ideological bias.”
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
The Weaponization of Culture
08 Jul 2020
While statues glorifying white supremacy are being torn down across the globe, a Maryland county is busy desecrating African graves and building a new edifice to white supremacy. “‘There is always something that is more important than Black Lives, in life and in death.”
Roger Stoll
Cuban Spies Disguised As Doctors
08 Jul 2020
The European Union now excludes travelers from the COVID-ridden U.S., but welcomes those from the virtually COVID-free Cuba. Cuba, the country that sends doctors and infectious disease specialists around the world to fight the pandemic, the country the U.S. has held in contempt for 60 years,…
Gustavus Griffin
What’s in a Name Change?: A New Black/Native American Solidarity
08 Jul 2020
Native American and African/Black people in America have both been victims of Settler Colonialism. “Black Lives Matter activists stood in solidarity with the Sioux at Standing Rock in resistance to the Keystone Pipeline.” A friend texted me, asking: “Do you think Snyder really will change the Skins…
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Don’t Let the Democratic Party Bury the Movement
09 Jul 2020
The Black movement will be asphyxiated by the ubiquitous fingers of the Democratic Party if it does not build independent nexuses of people’s power. “Defunding the police – inevitably, in practice – is an immersion in Democratic Party budgetary dickering that legitimizes the imposition of the…