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Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Long Live the Legacy of Lawrence Ferlinghetti!
03 Mar 2021
Ferlinghetti might have been God ‘cause he almost lived forever; and Jersey Boys—Allen and Amiri— lyricized Coltrane’s “Welcome” and are singing it for him with rhythmic cadences of Kaddish at the big convocation… Ferlinghetti might have been God ‘cause I bought his lil hardcover black bible with…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Joe Biden: The Expect Nothing Presidency
03 Mar 2021
Biden’s brand of American exceptionalism has run up against the general crisis of the U.S. imperialist order. “Celebrations of Kamala Harris and Llyod Austin never come with real policy proscriptions for the masses of Black people.” Joe Biden’s administration can be more aptly characterized as the…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Minimal Minimum Wage
03 Mar 2021
Most Democrats either don’t want a minimum wage increase or are too afraid of bucking their party’s donor class. “Biden and the rest of the Democrats will never defy the people who butter their bread.”
Zayid Muhammad
About the Ray Wood 'Confession'
03 Mar 2021
The Malcolm X Commemoration Committee speaks on Ray Wood’s deathbed 'non-confession' to crimes committed before and during the great leader’s assassination. “Wood continued to function as an undercover operative for at least six more years after Malcolm’s murder.” The Malcolm X Commemoration…
Philippe Gendrault
The Black Struggle and the Future of Humankind
10 Mar 2021
Exploited within the belly of the beast, the struggle for Black emancipation cannot avoid its global ramifications when it comes to ending the hegemon’s domestic violence and global destructiveness. “The rise of English manufacturing and capitalism was indeed promoted from cotton fields the…
Rosa Miriam Elizalde
The Attack That Never Happened: Cuba and the US Fantasy of Sonic Attacks
10 Mar 2021
Renowned Cuban journalist Rosa Miriam Elizalde discusses the long-lasting impact of the US allegation that “sonic attacks” were carried out against US embassy staff. “How could the waves have been perceived by certain people gathered in the same place and not others?”
Amelia Pollard
The Rise of the Private Police
10 Mar 2021
South Africa is leading the way into the horror of policing for profit. “The government itself invests in the firms that are undermining its own authority.”
Marian Jones
What Are Identity Politics? A Vision of Solidarity Rooted in Black Feminism
10 Mar 2021
The CRC never defined identity politics as exclusionary or intended to mean that only those who experience a certain oppression can fight to end it. “If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the…
Jordan Flaherty
Black Civil Rights Lawyer in New Orleans Fights Back Against Exploitative Media Organization
10 Mar 2021
Well-meaning whites think its quite alright to steal Black activists’ words – as long as their intentions are good, which is up to them to decide. “The producers and editors at The Conversation never spoke to Washington or asked her permission to base the name of their podcast after her words…
Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagher
Newly Obtained FBI Files Shed New Light on the Murder of Fred Hampton
10 Mar 2021
That all this time later we are still learning new information about Hampton’s killing is testament to the sheer volume of the effort aimed at this young revolutionary. “This was a masterplan for destroying radical black nationalist groups.”