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Markets and Margins: An interview with Etant Dupain
31 Jul 2019
The Haitian market woman has been marginalized by the same forces that oppress and prey on her nation. “President Clinton single-handedly destroyed Haiti’s ability to produce local rice while Arkansas-produced rice (heavily subsidized itself) now floods the market.”
B.R. Gowani
Nancy Pelosi: The leader of the “Hizb al-Shaitan”
31 Jul 2019
Pelosi is not transparent like Trump in her cunning moves but, like Trump, is averse to any challenge to the status quo. “Is the party going to listen, and do something, about the changes the progressives want? Hell, no.” Hizb al-Shaitan
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant’s“Talking to the Dead”
31 Jul 2019
Being connected to one’s ancestors is not hocus pocus, but a way to navigate life and struggle. “What might our lives look like if we took seriously the ways that our ancestors laid important groundwork for inhabiting the world?”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Peter Cole’s “Dockworker Power”
31 Jul 2019
The author examines how ordinary workers in multiracial societies simultaneously challenged racism and their bosses. “Black workers proved powerful enough to close down South Africa’s gateway to the global economy.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
31 Jul 2019
This week readers raised some controversial questions. You discussed the Joe Biden campaign and attempts to present “queer” Muslims. We share your letters for “Sanders, Biden, and the Electability Scam” and “BAR Book Forum: Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo’s ‘Halal If You Hear…
BAR Editor and Columnist, Dr. Marsha Adebayo and Chris Rigaux
A Legacy of Violence and Land Appropriation Bethesda Moses African Cemetery
31 Jul 2019
Montgomery County officials thought no one would care about a “bunch of dead black folks.” “Our demands are quite simple and grounded in justice. Give the land back!”
Josmar Trujillo
The “Total Anarchy” of Wet Cops
31 Jul 2019
No matter how many Black people cops kill and abuse, corporate media amplify voices that shift victimhood onto the police force. “There is little empirical evidence for the notion that disorder sparks serious crime.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Bad Hombre Defense
31 Jul 2019
Wait! Call the Cream Team— Dershbag’s a lawyer, Slick Willy’s a lawyer— Wait! Before you suicide the accused Serial pedophile predator who could flip and name names, Before he has a heart attack, or viagra overdose Before he hangs himself with dental floss; or a garbage bag There’…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Megan Rapinoe: Fake Progressive
31 Jul 2019
The con of diversity is all that distinguishes Democratic Party elites and white feminists from the big Orange Menace in the White House. “Rapinoe is not Kaepernick.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Trump and Black Misleadership Class: Collaborators in the Defense of White Power
31 Jul 2019
Black people are not obligated to defend opportunists and servants of white capital in Baltimore just because they were called out by Trump. “The reality of Baltimore is the reality of decaying and dying cities and rural areas across this nation.”