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Asha Noor
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
02 Sep 2020
An abolitionist frame of thought is a rebirth, a spiritual process, a painful undertaking, and an ancestral conjuring for Black and brown people. “Abolition has become a salient part of the conversation, yet many wouldn't see themselves as unfree.” In this series we ask organizers, artists, and…
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
02 Sep 2020
This week the Democratic Party presidential ticket was on your minds. We share your letters for “'Kamala Auntie': On the Vulgarity of Bourgeois Identity Politics in 2020” and “Biden Offers Nothing But More War, Austerity and White Supremacy - Without Trump.”
Anthony Monteiro
The Invention of Ibram X Kendi and the Ideological Crises of Our Time
02 Sep 2020
Rich white capitalists may be donating millions to Black Lives Matter, but they’re also funding and praising nonsense like Kendi’s babblings on race and capitalism. “When the ideas of the Black Radical Tradition are finding wider agreement, this book is an attack upon it.”
P. Khalil Saucier
“The Balls in (Y)our Court:” Naomi Osaka and (Continued) Black Genocide
02 Sep 2020
Osaka’s statement must be seen as part of a radical tradition too often redacted from sports history. “Genocide creates the imperative for radical transformation, not social reform, and leaves people with no other choice but to dismantle the conditions that spawn it.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Deja vu—Step 1 and Step 2?
02 Sep 2020
Is this Deja Vu— Step1 and Step 2? The long, long lines breaking with 12 years of Reaganite reaction in ’92 Slick Willy’s $campaign—his sax- ophone; his shades: his “1st black President” sticht?
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The NBA’s Black Power
02 Sep 2020
Black NBA players, writes Ann Garrison, are just beginning to understand the power of the attention and admiration they command. “All the basketball arenas owned by NBA teams will be turned into polling stations prior and up through the November 3 election.”
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The US Has Long Led the Assault on Human Rights
02 Sep 2020
The historical record on U.S. human rights policies, both domestic and international, is one of hypocrisy, deceit, and denigration. “Europeans on both sides of the Atlantic reconciled slavery with human rights by declaring non-whites non-human.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Difference between the CPC and the DNC? A Study of Politics Versus Personalities
02 Sep 2020
Unlike Joe Biden, Xi Jinping’s report is centered, not on personality but on the actually-existing socialist system in China. “Seventy-three percent of people polled in China believe they live in a democracy.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The U.S. Is a Racist Militia
02 Sep 2020
U.S. cops are already racist and brutal, and any militia “infiltrators” would feel right at home. “Kyle Rittenhouse was acting like the police who shot and severely wounded Jacob Blake.”
Roger Stoll
Mexico: First the Poor
09 Sep 2020
The country’s new leftist president struggles to honor his people’s "right to stay home" by fighting poverty and expanding access to education. “But many indigenous organizations predict the projects will irrevocably damage the environment and their traditional ways of life.” “Por el bien de todos…