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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Karla Holloway’s “A Death in Harlem”
23 Oct 2019
This novel puts the “too often secreted issues of intraracial classism and colorism” up front and center, along with Black cop contradictions and color-coded witnesses. “The author opens the door ‘fully for rich, complicated, messy, foolish, and celebratory black realities.’”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: AbdouMaliq Simone’s “Improvised Lives”
23 Oct 2019
An exploration of how to simultaneously act on and under radars of all kinds. “What else, if anything, exists ‘besides’ imperial, racist and colonial relations?”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
23 Oct 2019
This week readers discuss lead-poisoned water in Newark and the the imperialist attack on Syria. We share your letters for “Newark’s Lead-Poisoned Water and the Contradictions of a ‘Radical’ Mayor: How Do We Fight” and “Syria: Exposing Western Radica
Horace G. Campbell
Chinese Revolution at 70: Twists and Turns, to What?
23 Oct 2019
At a time when propaganda almost totally obscures history, Dr Campbell provides an overview of China’s road to – socialism? “The fact that the Chinese project is not capitalist does not mean that it is socialist, only that it makes it possible to advance on the long road to socialism.”…
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Neo-Con Chippendales
23 Oct 2019
White phosphorus Pony, nuclear bumps and grinds; sulfur stench shimmies, twisted Third Reich minds— bending, ‘amending’ yellowed, ragged redacted pages …Pedophiles dirty dancing workers’ children in cages! STOP neo-Con Chippendales Trump, Pompeo and Pence provoking wars with countries, calling it…
by BAR Staff
Black Agenda Report’s 13th Anniversary: An Evening of Information and Inspiration for Liberation, and a Tribute to Co-Founder Bruce Dixon
23 Oct 2019
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Hillary Busts Tulsiasha Gabbardskaya and Jillia Steinakanova: What Could Go Wrong?
23 Oct 2019
With their Russiagate fantasies, the Democrats have done infinitely more to delegitimize US institutions of governance than any foreign power could dream to accomplish. “The Democrats have come up with a permanent excuse for failure and they're going to use it again in 2020.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Political Theology, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Limits of Social Democracy
23 Oct 2019
Universal equality has always run counter to the United States’ anti-Black and settler colonial roots. “The ruling class has no interest in delivering any aspect of AOC’s program.” These remarks were presented at the Political Theology Network Conference’s Panel, “Strategies for Anti-War…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Return of Hillary Clinton
23 Oct 2019
It’s not clear if smear-mongering Clinton is running for president, or just fleeing reality. “Her reappearance spells disaster for the Democratic Party.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Nobody Gets Liberated Until the Defeat of the Plutocrats
24 Oct 2019
The Lords of Capital commission their politicians and media servants to spin lies all day long, because every fact of capitalist life demands the overthrow of the system. “Black liberation/self-determination, by any definition, is wholly incompatible with the emerging imperial nightmare order.”