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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Luke de Noronha’s “Deporting Black Britons”
06 Jan 2021
Immigrants that moved to Britain as children were deported to Jamaica as “foreign criminals.” “Citizenship is the global system for the management of colonially partitioned populations.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Khary Polk’s “Contagions of Empire”
06 Jan 2021
Black and brown volunteers were considered both “essential” and “dispensable” in past disease-ridden US conflicts, just as they are in today’s Covid crisis. “Black people conscripted into imperial service wrestled with notions of death and honor.”
BAR Comments Editor Jahan Choudhry
Letters from Our Readers
06 Jan 2021
This week the Black Misleadership Class, sexual violence and colonialism, and the crisis of US imperialism were on your minds.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Think…
06 Jan 2021
Think of peoples having the most tanks, the most drones, the most missiles, bombs, aircraft carriers, guns, ammo and night vision goggles Think of peoples having the slowest trains, slowest internet; worst health- care the most citizens locked up and un- housed the most citizens killed by ‘…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Capitalism on a Ventilator: A New Book Analyzes the Impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. and China
06 Jan 2021
While China contained Covid-19 and preserved its economy, the U.S. spins lies while hundreds of thousands of its people die for lack of even a semblance of a national health system. “The United States has 80 times more deaths than China from COVID-19 despite possessing less than a fourth of the…
The Black Agenda Review team
The Black Agenda Review Year in Books
06 Jan 2021
Neither the pandemic nor the outgoing presidency represent a decisive break with or a radical deviation from past history, policies and conditions of capitalism and neocolonialism. “There is hope and strength to be gained in the continuous history of pan-African organizing against and Black…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Let the Black Caucus Be Black
06 Jan 2021
Black people suffer because they have no real representation in Congress. The Congressional Black Caucus takes its orders from Nancy Pelosi, who serves corporations, not people. “We have seen enough so-called progressives fall by the wayside.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Squad Won’t Fight Pelosi and Corporate Power
07 Jan 2021
For the first time in this century, significant numbers of young people of all races are expressing raw hatred for the Democrats and denouncing “The Squad” for collaborating with the oligarchy. “The biggest benefactor of the New Year’s revolt is the Movement for a People’s Party.”
Jeffrey B. Perry
On the Anniversary of His Death, Theodore W. Allen’s Analysis Still Resonates
13 Jan 2021
“White supremacy” wrote Allen, is “both the keystone and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy.” “White identity had to be carefully taught.”
Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores
The Trump Administration’s Parting Outrage Against Cuba
13 Jan 2021
Cuba’s placement on the state sponsors of terror list is meant to be a thorn in any plan by the Biden administration for rapprochement. “Trump’s State Department could not point to a single act of terror sponsored by Cuba.”