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Jon Jeter
The Only Language the White Settler Speaks: Ohio Police Say Grieving Black Father Avenges Son’s Slaying By Killing One of Theirs
07 May 2025
The killing of Timothy Thomas in 2001 ignited Cincinnati’s long-simmering tensions over police violence. This struggle continues today, forcing a painful question: When justice is denied, does…
JP Sloan
all their deaths were ruled suicide
15 Jan 2025
for Aiyana, for Tommie, for Jordan.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio January 10, 2025
10 Jan 2025
We talk about the killing of Robert Brooks by prison corrections officers and the need to close Rikers Island. We also discuss a recent Cuban conference dedicated to ending racism in that country.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Robert Brooks, Rikers Island and the Fight Against New York Incarceration
10 Jan 2025
Darren Mack, co-founder and co-director of Freedom Agenda, talks to us about the killing of Robert Brooks, who died after being beaten by corrections officers in a New York state prison, and the need…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
F Train Lynching: Papa Cop’s wink and nod
08 Jan 2025
"F Train Lynching: Papa Cop’s wink and nod" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Jon Jeter
From Bernhard Getz to George Zimmerman to Daniel Penny: Using Vigilantes to Police a Racist Social Order
18 Dec 2024
The state and vigilante lynchings of Black men and boys in the U.S. are not merely an aberration or a momentary relapse on the nation’s path to racial equality. They are part of the toolbox of…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
How to Protest for Sonya Massey
31 Jul 2024
Sonya Massey’s brutal murder at the hands of the police has resulted in anguish and anger but no difference in how state violence is protested. Instead, we see surrender to the crumbs of condolences…
Pan-African Community Action PACA 2568)
Pan-African Community Action Condemns the U.S. Settler State for the Murder of Sonya Massey
31 Jul 2024
The murder of Sonya Massey by the Illinois police is a symptom of a larger, deeply rooted, systemic assault on Black and Brown working-class communities. The only way to protect the people and resist…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump and Political Violence Waged by the U.S.
17 Jul 2024
The words “political violence” are the latest hackneyed and dishonest phrase emanating from the political class. The assassination attempt on Donald Trump was a minor affair compared to the treatment…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Political violence has no place— Like home?
17 Jul 2024
"Political violence has no place— Like home?" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.