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Marco Teruggi
US and Latin American Allies Move Towards Military Assault on Venezuela
18 Sep 2019
Under sustained pressure from Washington, a bloc of rightwing governments has interpreted a regional treaty as authorizing military force against Venezuela. “The UN General Assembly will be the next arena where the siege diplomacy against Venezuela will play its cards.”
Benjamin Balthaser
Racial Violence in Black and White
18 Sep 2019
From photos of lynchers to videos of brutal cops, there is a radical heritage of using images of violence as instruments of critique. “Images of violence have the power not merely to reproduce pain but also to create the society that will work to end it.”
Mark P. Fancher
“Operation Brown Nose” -- U.S. Aids French Dirty Work in Africa
18 Sep 2019
The U.S. has gone extra miles to support French military efforts to protect uranium mining in Niger. “When U.S. economic or geo-political interests are in jeopardy in Africa, France is often regarded as the “go-to” country for a military solution.”
T.P. Wilkinson
How to Find a Tiger in Africa: Searching for Agostinho Neto (1922 –1979)
18 Sep 2019
The history of liberated Angola, like the history of the world, cannot be told by humanity’s oppressors. “In the jargon of the ‘West,’ anyone called a communist who becomes a head of state must be a dictator.” What I want to do here is something very simple. I want to explain how I began to search…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Patricia Pinho’s “Mapping Diaspora”
18 Sep 2019
Transnational black solidarity has been a central component of African American roots tourism in Brazil, even as international tourism also allows for the enactment of first-world subjectivities. “People have been fiercely mobilizing across classes, races, genders, nations, and generations to…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adia Benton’s “HIV Exceptionalism”
18 Sep 2019
This book offers lessons for people interested in organizing around health status, for building health systems. “Who performs the dirty work or hard healthcare labor, and what does that ultimately mean for how social and political life is organized?”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
18 Sep 2019
This week you wrote back about Hollywood imperial propaganda and the firing of John Bolton. We share your comments on “Freedom Rider: Hollywood Propaganda Attack on Venezuela” and “
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Slick Willy and the sandwiches
18 Sep 2019
Slick Willy swears he only took four flights and gorged himself on peanut butter and jelly Sandwiches—take off to landing…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Biden and the Black Vote
18 Sep 2019
Older Black voters appear to buy into the idea of Biden’s “electability,” a farce engineered by Democratic elites that is likely to give us four more years of Trump. “Biden’s popularity among Black voters is a hangover from the blind and unconditional support those same voters gave to the Obama…
BAR staff
Black Agenda Report’s 13thAnniversary: An Evening of Information and Inspiration for Liberation, and a Tribute to Co-Founder Bruce Dixon
18 Sep 2019
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-agenda-reports-13th-anniversary-tickets-72333259727 Black Agenda Report’s 13thAnniversary: An Evening of Information and Inspiration for Liberation, and a Tribute to Co-Founder Bruce Dixon