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Haim Salih
Dates and Bullets: Sudan in the Grip of the RSF Militia
26 Jun 2019
The Sudanese protest movement needs a focused strategy to resist the RSF's growing power. “The RSF are backed by both Saudi Arabia and the UAE, who want to ensure their continued participation in the catastrophic war in Yemen.” On a hot May evening, I was stuck at a traffic light in a…
Vaidya Gullapalli
Will Chicago Get a Memorial to Honor the Survivors of Police Torture?
26 Jun 2019
The memorial would be a stone monument with the names of those tortured by Burge and his officers and the dates they were tortured. “Use of the term ‘reparations’ was important to capture the racism at work and that the compensation being offered was for violence by the state.”
Brett Wilkins
A Brief History of US Concentration Camps
26 Jun 2019
There is no doubt that concentration camps are in operation on US soil once again. “The Union Army re-captured freed slaves throughout the South and pressed them into hard labor in disease-ridden ‘contraband camps.’” concentration camp (noun): a place in which large numbers of people,…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Aaron Kamugisha’s “Beyond Coloniality”
26 Jun 2019
If current conditions continue, the Caribbean as we currently experience it will disappear by the middle of this century. “The Caribbean needs to find its way to a socialism tempered by all the lessons we have learnt over the last generation.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Elizabeth Pérez’s “Religion in the Kitchen”
26 Jun 2019
Black gods matter, because Black lives matter. “Few Black and Latinx students have ever been exposed to knowledge about their ancestors’ religious practices prior to the transatlantic slave trade and colonization.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
26 Jun 2019
Today we discuss Bernie Sanders in 2020 and Mahatma Gandhi in the anti-colonial struggle. Strong comments came for “The Ruling Class Will Not Tolerate the Sanders-Led Assault on Austerity.” We also received a few substantive comments on radio segment “Gandhi’s Struggle Relevant to…
Paul Street
Mayor Pete’s White House Race Trips on Race
26 Jun 2019
The gay young presidential candidate’s cops killed a Black father on Father’s Day, but Butiggieg snubbed the community vigil. “The neoliberal, developer-friendly pro-gentrification mayor has poured salt on the city’s racial wounds.” A Mayoral Sighting in the Wrong City I saw Mayor Pete at the local…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
2020 Democratic Party Debates Encircle Sanders with Wall Street’s Political Dogs
26 Jun 2019
Wall Street wants Harris, Buttigieg, and Biden to dominate the floor and shut down Sanders. “The ‘political revolution’ that Sanders proposes is too left for the ruling class but not left enough for humanity.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Biden and the Shame of the Black Misleaders
26 Jun 2019
The misleaders are tacitly admitting that black people can expect little to be done in their favor even if the Democrats manage to win. “The CBC won’t drop Biden unless the 1% clique tell them to.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
We are Already Late to the Great Black Reparations Debate
26 Jun 2019
The following essay was prepared for the 30th annual convention of NCOBRA, the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, held June 20 - 23 in Detroit.