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Richard S. Dunn
Harry Belafonte - Unashamedly Revolutionary
03 May 2023
The late Harry Belafonte was a great artist and also a committed revolutionary.
Jacqueline Luqman
DOJ Indictment Against The APSP Is An Old Tactic In The Government's Perpetual War On Black Radical Organizing
03 May 2023
Federal indictments against the African People's Socialist Party are part of a long history of attacks on Black leftists.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Brittany Meché
03 May 2023
This week’s featured scholar is Brittany Meché. Meché is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Affiliated Faculty of Science and Technology Studies at Williams College. Her article is “Black as Drought: Arid Landscapes and Ecologies of Encounter across the African Diaspora.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Division’s still 1% survival math
03 May 2023
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Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Africans in the US are a Colonized People: A Comment on the Indictment of the African People's Socialist Party
03 May 2023
Red Scares, McCarthyism, COINTELPRO, "Black Identity Extremists" are all indicative of how the colonized are treated by the state.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: “I’ll Be Damned if I Go Back to Work Under Those Conditions!” Lucy E. Parsons, May 1, 1930
03 May 2023
A 1930 speech by Black anarchist and labor organizer, Lucy Parsons, recalls the radical origins of May Day.
Jean Ronald Montas
Report from Port-au-Prince, Haiti: How People Protect Their Communities in the Absence of the State
03 May 2023
Note that all western coverage of Haiti over the past ten months has centered on “gang violence” and not the protests by the people against an illegitimate Prime Minister, unending U.S. imperial interventions, the removal of fuel subsidies, chronic poverty, and growing insecurity.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Whither Black Voters in 2024
03 May 2023
The duopoly trap for the 2024 election has been set, but Black voters can refuse to step into it.
The Cradle
US Secretary of State Under Pressure to Disclose Bombshell Afghanistan Cables
10 May 2023
Anthony Blinken has refused to hand over cables in which US embassy officials warned of an imminent Taliban victory weeks before Washington's botched withdrawal. As in Afghanistan, the Biden administration is now refusing to acknowledge the defeat of its project in Ukraine, or to negotiate an end…
Abayomi Azikiwe
Sudan Conflict Provides Rationale for Further Imperialist Militarization
10 May 2023
The United States deploys naval warships and drones after creating the conditions for destabilization in Sudan. AFRICOM's presence is expanding under the guise of protecting US nationals.