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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sarah Jane Cervenak’s Book, “Black Gathering”
18 Aug 2021
Creating alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from interruption or regulation. BAR Book Forum: Sarah Jane Cervenak’s Book, “Black Gathering” Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Da’Shaun Harrison’s Book, “Belly of the Beast”
18 Aug 2021
The politics of fat shaming is tied to anti-Black racism.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Afghanistan
18 Aug 2021
Afghanistan has been at the mercy of U.S. interventions for more than 40 years.
Alexander Ramdass, Lisa Premchand, Gary Aboud
Corruption, Pollution and Economic Crisis: The Cautionary Tale of T&T's Oil Industry
25 Aug 2021
Oil Reserves Don't Benefit the People of Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), once proud, hopeful, and wealthy, is today left with nothing but a beleaguered Treasury and toxic crude poisoning our waters and food system.
Jailhouse Lawyers Speak
Jailhouse Lawyers Speak calls for National Shut ‘Em Down Demonstrations
25 Aug 2021
Jailhouse Lawyers Speak call for Shut 'Em Down prison abolition actions in 2022.
Thomas Peralte
The Return of the Marines
25 Aug 2021
It’s hard to teach an empire new tricks. Once again, the U.S. Marines invade Haiti “for the umpteenth time” under the guise of humanitarian assistance. A battalion of U.S. Marines from North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune left for Haiti on Wednesday, August 18 under the pretext of aiding the victims of…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sharon Lynette Jones’ “Conversations with Angela Davis”
25 Aug 2021
BAR Book Forum delves into Conversations with Angela Davis. In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Sharon Lynette Jones. Jones is professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at Wright State University. …
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Summer of Soul/Summer of Struggle…
25 Aug 2021
BAR's poet in residence pays tribute to fallen Black Panther Party comrades. Chalk silhouettes, bullet-violated bodies of Bunchy and John—UCLA, cold Campbell Hall floor—Punctuated January ’69…like a loud Prelude to December’s death squad symphonies: Silencing Chicago songs of spring; Meeting riffs…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: An Yountae and Eleanor Craig’s “Beyond Man”
25 Aug 2021
"Beyond Man" is an analysis of race, religion, and activism.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: The Attica Liberation Faction Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Depression Platform, 1971
18 Aug 2021
Black August: Remembering the Attica prisoner demands as the 50th anniversary approaches. MANIFESTO: The Attica Liberation Faction Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Depression Platform, 1971