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Russell Rickford
The Promise of Street Rebellions
03 Jun 2020
The flames burned both for Floyd and for the vanishing dream of a moral economy. “In America the processes of racial subjection and material dispossession are inseparable.” As we emerged from a weekend in which legions of protesters in Minneapolis and other cities faced extreme police aggression,…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Brandon R. Byrd’s “The Black Republic”
03 Jun 2020
We should see Haiti as a bellwether for what is occurring throughout the Americas and the world. “The Black Republic encourages us to treat African Americans as political actors and thinkers capable of deep engagement with Haiti’s political realities.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sasha Turner’s “Contested Bodies”
03 Jun 2020
Mothers and infants consistently experience positive health outcomes when midwives are incorporated into healthcare systems. “Emergent professionals, governments, enslavers, and abolitionists seeking to control women’s reproduction discredited midwives and women as ignorant, unskilled, and…
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
03 Jun 2020
This week police brutality and the Coronavirus were on your minds. We share your responses for “The Blue Plague and the Black Death.” In “The Blue Plague and the Black Death” Glen Ford compares the nation’s long history of racist police brutality to the new illness sweeping the nation.…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Black Lives Extinguished, Black Ancestors’ Bodies Desecrated
03 Jun 2020
We are killed in the streets while we are alive and then our bodies are dug up and thrown away like trash when businesses require the land for profit making. “In the 1800’s they would have used a rope; today they use a boot, bullets or the deadly neck chokehold.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Shooting and looting started: 400 years ago
03 Jun 2020
Shooting, looting, scalping, lynching, Raping, torturing their way across the continent—400 years ago— Colonial settler thugs launched this endless crimson tide rolling down on Today… Colonial settler thugs launched this endless crimson tide leaving in- visible yellow crime scene tape…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Headline News
03 Jun 2020
The world as we know it may be at the cusp of radical change, but right now it just looks like a blizzard of urgent headlines. “Louisville police shot dead the city’s beloved Black ‘BBQ Man,’ aka ‘Ya-Ya.’”
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
No Compromise, No Retreat: Defeat the War Against the African/Black People in the U.S. and Abroad
03 Jun 2020
The justice for George Floyd mobilizations today reflected the state’s worst nightmare – a multi-national and multi-racial action initiated by Black people with Black leadership. “A shift must occur away from the focus on individual justice for Floyd back to a critique and opposition to the ongoing…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Stephen Jackson is Right: Justice for George Floyd Requires Power to the People
03 Jun 2020
The police and the military not only protect the private property of the rich but also act as shock troops for the violent oppression of Black Americans and the racially subjugated everywhere. “Community control of the police could serve as the basis for building a broader movement for the self-…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Black Misleaders Seek to End Protest
03 Jun 2020
The nationwide protests have forced the Black quisling class to reveal themselves as agents of the racial and economic status quo. “Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms was among the worst.”