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Rinaldo Walcott
BAR Book Forum: Rinaldo Walcott’s “The Long Emancipation”
10 Mar 2021
“Black freedom” as a claim, as a possibility, challenges us to imagine and to produce new modes of life. “We can conceive of anti-Black racism as the crucially important element of the production of nationalist coloniality in which the Black subject is never able to occupy the site of incorporation…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Amy Cooper’s “State of Health”
10 Mar 2021
Unlike the US and other corporate-ruled countries, activists inside and outside of government collaborated to bring about radical social change in Venezuela. “People viewed the state as a source of immense wealth that rightly belonged to them.”
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
10 Mar 2021
This week Pan Africanism and the Black Panther Party were on your minds. We share your letters for “Black Citizenship Forum: The Roots of Xenophobic Violence in South Africa---A Pan African Response” and “Judas and the Black Messiah: A Missed Opportunity.”
Netfa Freeman and Jemima Pierre
Movements Not Saviors: Lessons from Bobi Wine’s Tweet for Juan Guaido
10 Mar 2021
Bobi Wine’s flirtation with US Venezuelan puppet Juan Guaido indicates that the Ugandan is also auditioning for the imperial puppet job. “A return to the oppressive conditions for the people will be inevitable if a dictator is removed but not the West’s ultimate control.”
Robin D.G. Kelley
Why Cornel West’s Tenure Fight Matters
10 Mar 2021
Harvard’s administrators completely miss the point of tenure, which was created to allow scholars to do their work, speak their truth, and stand up for something without risking their jobs. “It never occurred to me that Harvard would bring Cornel West back as a contract laborer.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Meet me at Mary’s Place…
10 Mar 2021
“…he said if you can enjoy A real nice affair (Over at Mary's place—oh) Then you'll make it Your business to be right there… (Over at Mary's place— oh)” —Sam Cooke All her friends were brilliant. Brilliant bakers, bus drivers, plumbers, poets, professors, lawyers, filmmakers,…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: African LGBTI Manifesto/Declaration, April 18, 2010
10 Mar 2021
The manifesto claimed the LGBTI struggle as an indelible and urgent part of the history of Pan-Africanism and the ongoing movements for Black sovereignty. “As long as African LGBTI people are oppressed, the whole of Africa is oppressed.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Keep Victoire Ingabire in Your Hearts
10 Mar 2021
Victoire risked her life to establish that Hutu people were also killed by the Tutsi army, before, during, and after the Rwanda genocide, writes Ann Garrison. “The people of the Democratic Republic of Congo must be the first beneficiaries of their resources."
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Anti-Asian Racism Never Stopped Being an Outgrowth of U.S. Imperialism
10 Mar 2021
Scant attention has been placed on the context of anti-Asian racism and its roots in the history of U.S. imperialism. “The rise of China has placed the hegemony of U.S. imperialism into question on the highest stage possible.” “Gimme that ball, gook.” “Can you see with those eyes, chink…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Trump/Biden Foreign Policy
10 Mar 2021
Biden rules like Trump regarding Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Haiti, because the two imperial parties serve the same masters. “The U.S. continues its tradition of keeping puppets in power like Jovenel Moise, in Haiti.”