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Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
short school struggle poem
02 Mar 2022
short school…
Jacqueline Luqman
Without Even Realizing How We Were Being Played. Could This Be Russiagate's Checkmate?
02 Mar 2022
Tales of Donald Trump collusion with Vladimir Putin absolved the democrats of electoral blame, and supported the war party in its attacks on Russia. Yet it was the democratic administration of Barack Obama which first made common cause with the Ukrainian right wing and set the stage for military…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
In Ukraine, U.S. Support for Self-determination is Both Political and Conditional
02 Mar 2022
The US determination to exercise hegemony over Ukraine is the cause of this latest crisis. Despite those efforts, the multipolar world is asserting itself. This article was originally published in CGTN.
Roberto Sirvent
BAR Book Forum: Jafari S. Allen’s “There’s a Disco Ball Between Us”
02 Mar 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Jafari S. Allen. Allen is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Global Black Studies at the University of Miami. His book is There’s a Disco Ball Between…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Yolanda Covington-Ward and Jeanette S. Jouili’s Book, “Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas”
02 Mar 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s authors are Yolanda Covington-Ward and Jeanette S. Jouili. Covington-Ward is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Jouili is Associate Professor of Religion at Syracuse…
Black Alliance For Peace
For African and Colonized Peoples, to Understand Ukraine: De-center Europe and Focus on Imperialism
02 Mar 2022
The Black Alliance for Peace emphatically declares that the conflict in the Ukraine emerges from the ceaseless and single-minded drive of the U.S., NATO, and the European Union for global economic and political dominance.
Mamyrah Prosper
A Different “Fight for 15:” Haiti Garment Industry Workers Strike
02 Mar 2022
The garment workers' strike in Haiti can't be separated from that nation's history. Continued US interference on behalf of oligarchic rule keeps workers in poverty.
Dr. Gerald Horne
From Crisis to Catastrophe? What is to be Done in Eastern Europe.
02 Mar 2022
The end of the cold war was the beginning of the America unipolar moment. But the "end of history" was followed by contradiction and arrogance which brought the conflict in Ukraine into being. The current crisis in the Ukraine will inevitably eventuate as that rarity: a turning point in world…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DOCUMENT: Of the Culture of White Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois, 1917
02 Mar 2022
As the European-initiated World War I raged, W. E. B. DuBois reminded us about the destructive nature of the “culture of white folk.” It is a reminder sorely needed today. Towards the end of the essay, “Of the Culture of White Folk,” W. E. B. Du Bois declares: The cause of war is preparation for…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Ukraine Exposes White Supremacist Foreign Policy
02 Mar 2022
White supremacy is at the heart of US war propaganda. The exhortation to "stand with Ukraine" is no exception to this rule.