The New Dark Age

Glen Ford, BAR executive editor
Sanders has been made into a non-person, and his proposals routinely distorted, because the corporate media want Americans to meekly submit to the Race to the Bottom.

Margaret Kimberley, BAR editor and senior columnist
A thousand young people demonstrated in Brooklyn, jumping over
turnstiles in solidarity with others arrested and brutalized by the
cops.

Danny Haiphong, BAR contributor
Black political captivity in the Democratic Party has a lot to do with
why there is no clear peace movement in the United States.

Ann Garrison, BAR contributor
Whether Trump tried to make an impeachable arms deal with Ukraine or
not, “the last thing Ukraine needs is more weapons of any kind.”

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Voters Won’t Save the Democrats / Fundamental Black and Native
Opposition to White Setller State / Green New Deal vs White Supremacy /
Mumia: Even Angela Davis Shocked by US Mass Incarceration

Erica Caines
Much of the internet chatter over low- hanging fruit issues fails to address our material realities within a settler colony.

In Langston’s home
Harlem
You do as Langston
Did
Love the Jazz, the Blues,
Words, acts, pages and stages

Earl Hazell
Opera singer and producer Earl Hazell reminds us that standing up for
artists and their vision is standing up for free speech, democracy, and
ourselves.

Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
This week our readers discussed black feminism and the alleged killing of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.

Instead of succumbing to xenophobia and nativism, as with anti-Somali
sentiment in Kenya or ADOS in the US, we need to pursue freedom in ways
that speak to our differences.

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
Millions of Venezuelans are building socialism from below, and most of them are Black, brown and female.

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The fight for a Green New Deal is bringing together a “multiracial, multiclass coalition” that is meeting their environmental, economic and psychological needs “in a far more efficient and better way than it ever was under white supremacist capitalist capitalism,” said activist and State University of New York English professor Nicholas Powers. Powers is author of “The Ground Below Zero: 9/11 to Burning Man, New Orleans to Darfur, Haiti to Occupy Wall Street.”

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Blacks and Native Americans continue to pose a threat to the “conquistador white settler nation,” agues Tiffany King, author of “The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies.” King is a professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Georgia. “There are impulses within both Black abolition and Native decolonization that are fundamentally about ending the US,” said King.

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
If the Democrats continue to behave as if the working class is white, they won’t be able to count on huge Black turnouts at the polls, said activist and public interest attorney Malaika Jabali. Many Blacks in the economically depressed Midwest opted out of voting in the last presidential election, believing the Democrats “don’t care about me, so why should I care about them,” said Jabali.

Enzo Calandra
The atrocities committed by white male shooters are part and parcel of US behavior both domestically and around the world.

Alice Speri 
Sting operations and the use of informants and agents provocateurs have become a staple of FBI operations

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, notes that even trailblazing prison abolition scholar Angela Davis, herself a former political prisoner, underestimated Americans’ willingness to incarcerate millions of their fellows. Abu Jamal quoted Davis, who wrote that, back in the late Sixties she could not fathom that the US prison population would increase ten-fold in the next few decades. “No, this will never happen,” she wrote. “Not unless this country plunges into fascism.”

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
If the movement continues to build support, we can win National Improved Medicare for All in the early 2020s.

Vijay Prashad
The reasons for major flows of migration to Europe actually come from within Europe itself.

Peoples Dispatch Staff
The city’s Black-led union, with potent support from the city’s Black and brown communities, faced down the new Black mayor.