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Baraka, A. (2023). “Praxis from the Centre Back to the Margins: Amilcar Cabral’s Method as a Guide for Reconstructing the Radical Black Political Subject.” In F. Manji & B. Fletcher’s, Second revised edition, In Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral. Brooklyn, NY: Common Notions Press. Pp. 375-382.
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Baraka, A. (May 18, 2021). “From Palestine to Colombia: The End of the White World Colonial-Capitalist Project?”
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Baraka, A. (2019). Forward. “Countering the Violence of Imposed Forgetting.” In R. Sirvent & D. Haiphong edition, American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News―From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror. NY: Skyhorse Publishing.
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Baraka, A. (2018). “Forward.” In F. Jerome’s edition, The Einstein File: The FBI’s Secret War Against the World’s Most Famous Scientist. Montreal, Quebec: Baraka Books.
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[This book has several foreign language editions, which include Farsi/Persian, German, French, and Spanish]

Baraka, A. (Dec. 10, 2018). “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: Time to De-Colonize Human Rights!” Independent Political Report, https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2018/12/the-universal-declaration-of-human-rights-at-70-time-to-de-colonize-human-rights/

Baraka, A. (2017). Afterword: “Home Isn’t Always Where the Hatred Is: There is Hope In Mississippi.” In K. Akuno & M. Meyer’s edition, Jackson Rising Redux: Lessons on Building the Future in the Present. Oakland, CA: PM Press.
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Baraka, A. (April 1, 2015). “Invading Yemen: Criminality in Support of Hegemony.” Guardian (Sydney), ISSN (PRINT): 1325-295X, Issue No. 1679. https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/informit.142937652937383

Baraka, A. (April. 29, 2015). “Baltimore and the Human Right to Resistance.” Counterpunch, https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/29/baltimore-and-the-human-right-to-resistance-2/

Baraka, A. (2014). “Socialism is the Highest Expression of Human Rights.” F. Goldin, D. Smith, & M. Smith’s edition, Imagine Living in a Socialist U.S.A. Pp. 71-76. NY: HarperCollins. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/imagine-frances-goldin/1115888725?ean=9780062305589

Baraka, A. (2014). “For a National Alliance for Racial Justice and Human Rights.” In K. A. Gray, J. St. Clair, J. Wypijewski’s edition, Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence. Petrolia, CA: CounterPunch Books. Pp. 121-124.
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Baraka, A. (2013). “Trayvon Martin and the Need for an Independent Human Rights Movement.” Proudflesh: New African Journal of Culture, Politics and Consciousness, Issue No. 7. ISSN: 1543-0855. https://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/proudflesh/article/view/1747/0

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Baraka, A. (Dec. 10, 2013). “Human Rights Project Determined by the Needs of the Powerful.”
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Baraka, A. (Sept. 27, 2012). “Human Rights and Humanitarian Imperialism in Syria: A View from an African American Human Rights Defenders.” Pambazuka Issue 599.
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