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Sarah Sax
Black families Passed Their Homes from One Generation to the Next. Now They May Be Lost.
02 Oct 2021
This article first appeared in The Guardian. Unstable property rights mean Black southerners may survive a flood but lose their home, and it’s causing the racial wealth gap to grow larger. Margaret Alston doesn’t remember the night that Hurricane Matthew hit, but she remembers how afraid she was of…
Simon Rolston, Nora Demnati
Anti-Black Racism in Canadian Prisons Remains Rampant, Despite Government Pledges
02 Oct 2021
Systemic racism is built into Canada’s prison system, but federal parties have little to offer incarcerated Black Canadians and their families. This article originally appeared in The Breach. More than a year on from a supposed reckoning over anti-Black racism in institutions, Black people in…
Emily Elena Dugdale, Irena Hwang
In a California Desert Sheriff Deputies Settle Schoolyard Disputes and Black Teens Bear the Brunt
02 Oct 2021
Deputies in California’s Antelope Valley are disproportionately citing Black teens for minor infractions that lead to criminal records and incarceration. (This article originally appeared in ProPublica.org.) Barron Gardner, a high school history teacher in Southern California’s Antelope Valley…
Salimah Valiani, PhD
Africa's COVID-19 Vaccine and the Scandal of the Centuries
05 Oct 2021
African nations might have produced a patent free vaccine that would have benefitted the whole world. Instead they purchased patented vaccines which enriched pharmaceutical corporations outside of the continent. This article is based on an interview conducted with Professor Christian Happi on…
Kevin Edmonds
Let Haiti Breathe – CORE Group Out of Haiti
06 Oct 2021
Dismantling the unelected and colonialist CORE Group is the first step to loosening the imperialist stranglehold over Haiti. On a hot August afternoon, members from Solidarité Québec-Haïti, a group rooted in Canada’s Haitian diaspora community, gathered In front of the Canadian parliament buildings…
Salome Ayuak
Imperialism and the Horn of Africa
06 Oct 2021
Speech by Salome Ayuak given at the International Month of Action Against AFRICOM launch event.
Mark P. Fancher
From Russia Without Love - Mercenaries in Mali
06 Oct 2021
The "scramble for Africa" continues with the U.S., former colonizers such as France, and now Russia, all competing for influence. African nations struggle for true sovereignty.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
AOC Offers a Hard Lesson on the Need to Dump the Duopoly
06 Oct 2021
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other so-called progressives exemplify the dangers of depending on the Democratic Party to enact any meaningful change.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Louis M. Maraj’s “Black or Right”
06 Oct 2021
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Louis M. Maraj. Maraj is an Assistant Professor of Writing Studies at the University of British Columbia. His book is Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics. Roberto Sirvent: How…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Build Back Better Legislation: New Keynesianism or Neoliberal Public Relations Stunt?
06 Oct 2021
Some provisions of Biden’s “Build Back Better” legislation benefit the masses of Black people, but this legislation is a bare minimum effort to blunt some of the sharpest contradictions of the system while attempting to maintain the neoliberal order.