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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Treva B. Lindsey’s “America, Goddam”
27 Apr 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Treva B. Lindsey. Lindsey is Associate Professor in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at Ohio State University. Her book is America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women,…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Mercy Romero’s “Toward Camden”
27 Apr 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Mercy Romero. Romero is Associate Professor of American Literature and American Studies at Sonoma State University. Her book is Toward Camden.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia, Part III: Crimes of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front
27 Apr 2022
BAR contributor Ann Garrison reports on conditions in Ethiopia.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
A lil’ homegoing homage to Brother Donald…
27 Apr 2022
Donald Smith always performed at Black Agenda Report events in New York City. He was a great musician and friend to the Black Agenda Report team. He will be missed.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Race and The Great American Death Divide
27 Apr 2022
It is not surprising that a settler colonial state would practice racism for centuries or that race would be the major factor determining who lives and who dies.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: “The architects of this murder are many:” Kwame Nkrumah on the killing of Patrice Lumumba, 1961
27 Apr 2022
Kwame Nkrumah’s 1961 speech on the assassination of Patrice Lumumba exposes the the international white supremacist cabal responsible for his death, and for the crisis of the Congo.
Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor
The OAS, Or the “Ministry of Colonies”
27 Apr 2022
In the wake of the expulsion of the Organization of the American States from Nicaragua, we need to revisit one of its major crime scenes: Haiti.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Obama Wants Censorship
27 Apr 2022
Barack Obama and his ruling class bosses are losing legitimacy with more and more people. They have decided that censoring information will resolve their problems.
Dan Beeton
The Venezuela Coup 20 Years Later
26 Apr 2022
The legacy of Venezuela’s short-lived 2002 coup d’etat, and the subsequent countercoup, endures for US-Latin American relations.
New Frame
Marking Workers’ Day in Dispiriting Times
03 May 2022
Previously in South Africa, millions of people were mobilised in the hope of a better future on May Day. Now, amid mass unemployment and the collapse of an emancipatory vision, that optimism is absent.