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Black August and Black Liberation: “Study, Fast, Train, Fight.”
05 Aug 2020
We owe it to our ancestors and our incarcerated comrades to escalate the struggle against the white settler state and its imperial capitalist order. “Some of our incarcerated comrades have moved into their fifth decade shackled as the longest serving political prisoners on the face of the…
Diane Gee
Detroit is No Portland
05 Aug 2020
It would be lunacy to send troops to Detroit, as Trump has threatened. “This is pre-emptive warfare.” "I'm going to do something, that I can tell you, because we're not going to let New York and Chicago and Philadelphia, Detroit and Baltimore ... Oakland is a mess ... We're not going…
Katelyn Burns
NYPD “Jump Out Boys” Have Been Accosting People for Years
05 Aug 2020
When Trump’s federal cops snatched people off the street in Portland, folks cried “fascist,” but that’s an everyday occurrence in Black and brown New York. “This is something that has been going on for years and that’s because the Manhattan DA Cy Vance has let the cops run wild without any…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Michael Sawyer’s “Black Minded”
05 Aug 2020
This book brings the indispensable voice of Malcolm X into our current political and social climate. “A 'conversation' between Malcolm X and activists and organizers will enrich our ability to deal with the destabilized future of Black people in this country.”
Tiana Reid
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
05 Aug 2020
Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism brought me to Marxism and not the other way around. In this series we ask organizers, artists, and academics to share books that inform their thinking about abolition. This week’s contributor is Tiana Reid. Three books that radicalized me:
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
05 Aug 2020
“Freedom Rider: Let the Movement Be Radical” by Margaret Kimberley calls for unity of the black activists with militant white protesters in places such as Portland and Minneapolis. Patrick Walker writes:
Netfa Freeman
AFRICOM Crying Russia in Libya: A Pot and Kettle Syndrome
05 Aug 2020
The US waged unprovoked war against Libya and has militarily occupied Africa, but is still singing its old song that Russia is the aggressor on the continent. “Not one liberal politician will unequivocally declare that the US has no moral business in Africa and AFRICOM has no legitimate or…
Earl Hazell
Essays on The Cult of White Feminism: The “Cos”-play of Elizabeth Warren
05 Aug 2020
A Black artist looks at the role of White Feminism in neutralizing the Progressive and Socialist Left in America, and its consequences. “Iconicity can make even the most questionable ideologies look like unparalleled genius straight from the mind of God.” “Patients are patients because they are out…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Testi-lyin’ low Barr
05 Aug 2020
a man ‘made’ $13 billion in a day—while Stomachs of millions of men, women and children are symphony orchestras tuning to “Last Days of Pompeo…” But a class wartime consigliere—William The Redactor is a very bad actor—an old Agency man; way cool with the klan—And Stonewallin’ his…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: How Trump Can Steal the 2020 Election
05 Aug 2020
The election was stolen from Clinton four years ago and the even weaker 2020 candidate can expect the same fate. “No one in the media or the Democratic Party gives a basic civics lesson or talks about how elections are really stolen.”