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The Mapping Project
Prison in Plain Sight: Visualizing the Economic Veins That Fuel Our Carceral Reality
13 Jul 2022
The prison system links corporate interests, the military industrial complex, and policing into a web of oppression impacting more than 2 million people in this country. The Mapping Project reports on incarceration in Massachusetts.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum “Sports and Black Struggle”: Interview with Courtney M. Cox
13 Jul 2022
This week, we interview Courtney Cox. Dr. Courtney M. Cox is an assistant professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. Her research examines issues related to identity, technology, and labor within sport. Her current book project, Double Crossover…
Roberto Sirvent
BAR Book Forum: Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni’s Book, “Epistemic Freedom in Africa”
13 Jul 2022
This week’s featured author is Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni. Dr. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Vice-Dean: Research, Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. His book is Epistemic…
Djibo Sobukwe
NATO and Africa
13 Jul 2022
Djibo Sobukwe participated in a Canadian Foreign Policy Institute panel, "NATO and Global Empire" on June 30, 2022. These are his remarks on NATO and Africa.
Black Alliance for Peace
An Open Letter to His Excellency, Mr. Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), President of Mexico, on the Renewal of the UN Occupation of Haiti
13 Jul 2022
The United Nations occupation of Haiti under MINUSTAH and BINUH brought instability, violence and even cholera to that nation. Signatories of an open letter to Mexico's president Lopez Obrador remind him that his support for regional self-determination means little if he spearheads renewal of the…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Drunken Count Ghouliani took the fifth the 6th—low Barr last days of Pompeo… (For Amiri)
13 Jul 2022
Drunken Count Ghouliani took the fifth the 6th—low Barr last days of Pompeo… (For Amiri) I. …’40s demand—30 years ago! Big Apple’s 1st Black Mayor proposed civilian agency investigate police mis conduct. Who brandished fully-loaded big lies? Who spread 90-proof five alarm fires? Who bussed bullies…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
U.S.-led Imperialism is the World’s Leading Purveyor of Chaos
13 Jul 2022
The western capitalist axis of domination is responsible for most of the world's crises. The crisis of legitimacy extends from the UK to Japan, and U.S. imperialism is involved in every new catastrophe.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL: Down with the Bestial Atrocities Against Blacks in Buffalo, New York! 1980
13 Jul 2022
As a 1980 editorial in the Buffalo Worker’s Voice recounts, the recent whitesupremacist violence in Buffalo has a long history. This history should not be forgotten.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
FBI Still Targets Black People for Entrapment
13 Jul 2022
The COINTELPRO era never ended, as Black people bear the brunt of FBI surveillance. The war on terror gave a new rationale for using paid informants to entrap Black people. Romeo Langhorne is the latest victim of a government created crime.
The Tricontinental
The PAIGC’s Political Education for Liberation in Guinea-Bissau, 1963–74 (Part 1)
20 Jul 2022
Liberation struggles are not fought only on the battlefield. The African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) left a legacy of educational decolonization.