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Ahjamu Umi
The Role of the Black Bourgeoisie in Coopting Our Movements
09 Sep 2020
The Black bourgeoisie, including the next generation of them after Obama, will continue to derail us with their empty promises of inclusion. “Their primary loyalty is, and will always be, to the capitalist system.”
Ali Winston
Decades-Old Gang Laws Are Being Used to Target Black Lives Matter Protesters
09 Sep 2020
By using gang laws, authorities can do an end run around First Amendment protections on freedom of association “The push to criminalize left-wing protest groups is a bipartisan approach that has garnered support in some progressive communities.”
John Pilger
The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange
09 Sep 2020
The collusion of powers wants to bury Julian alive in their war on the very principle of freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and democracy. “Assange believes that journalists are the agents of people, not power.” Having reported the long, epic ordeal of Julian Assange, John Pilger gave this…
Calvin Duncan
End the Injustice of Nonunanimous Juries
09 Sep 2020
Non-unanimous verdicts allow ten jurors to “simply ignore the views of their fellow panel members of a different race or class.” “People still languish in prison based on an unconstitutional rule.” When I was lying on my bunk in Angola prison, the maximum-security facility in Louisiana, my dream of…
David A Bell
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
09 Sep 2020
The fierce fighter against slavery defeated European armies but died in a cold French prison. “Only in the past quarter-century has the Haitian revolution attracted sustained scholarly attention in North America and Europe.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jasmine Mitchell‘s “Imagining the Mulatta”
09 Sep 2020
The mulatta serves as a strategy of containment of Blackness through logics of racial management. “Racial mixing does not solve racism and we do not need to hope for a distant future of racelessness.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: R.A. Judy’s Book, “Sentient Flesh”
09 Sep 2020
The long tradition of radical black critique in popular forms of expression gives us material on which to model our re-imagining of the world. ‘With these performances of poiēsis in black, we make the leap of invention Fanon called for.’
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
09 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.”
Black is Back Coalition
Join the Black Peoples March on Trump’s White House -- Just Like We Did Obama’s
09 Sep 2020
The Black Power Matters March directs us to fight against colonialism, for Black Community Control of the Police, and for a Black Agenda for Self-Determination. “They assault Africa confidently based on the assumption of no opposing constituency within the U.S.”
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Kevin Zeese, the Passing of a Warrior for Peace and Justice
09 Sep 2020
The human rights community mourns veteran activist Kevin Zeese, my friend and comrade. “He stood his ground and left an indelible mark in our memory and the landscape of the fight for human decency and liberation of the human spirit.” “For the Anniversary of My Death” by W.S. Merwin…