How Corporate Dollars Dominate the Black and Latino Conversation on Network Neutrality
Posted Wed, 02/03/2010 - 11:22 by Bruce A. Dixon
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BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The utter dependence of our “civil rights” organizations like the NAACP and LULAC upon corporate donations from Big Cable and the telecom industry has caused them to weigh into FCC rulemaking processes against network neutrality and for the continued digital redlining of black and brown communities. They are joined by a substantial cohort of black and Latino elected officials on the federal and other levels. What does this mean for minority communities, whose economic development depends on the availability of cheap, accessible broadband and a relatively free and open internet?
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Posted Wed, 12/02/2009 - 02:56 by The Editors
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Freedom Rider: Show Trial
Posted Wed, 02/03/2010 - 08:29 by Margaret Kimberley
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret KimberleyGlen Ford on Black Realities and Delusion in the Age of Obama
Posted Wed, 02/03/2010 - 08:26 by The Editors
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When the Pew Center recently polled African Americans it found that a solid majority of us now believe that historic gaps between black and white incomes, wages, along with disparites in health, wealth, morbidity, mortality and more are closing. Both the Pew Center and Ford agree this is good news, except for one thing. It's not true. Black unemployment is the highest it's been in 70 years and rising, and all the gaps between blacks and whites are further widening, not the other way around. The only thing that's changed is we now have a black face in the White House...
Haitians in the Bahamas Harrassed, Hunted and Scapegoated
Posted Wed, 02/03/2010 - 08:20 by The Editors
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Two centuries after the world's most successful slave rebellion Haitians are still being punished, both in their own country and in the nations to which they emigrate. In the Bahamas, Professor alex Morely explains, Haitians are an underclass, over-policed, over-exploited, underpaid and under surveillance. The Bahamian ruling elite have learned to blame Haitians like Lou Dobbs blames Mexicans.
Omali Yeshitela at Black Is Back: Creating A Broad Social Movement Based in Our Black Communties
Posted Wed, 02/03/2010 - 08:11 by The Editors
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Omali Yeshitela of the Uhuru Movement, convenors of the January 2010 Black Is Back conference in St. Petersburg explains that the 21st century successor to the Freedom Movement must be a broad social movement firmly rooted, among other places, in black America, and describes a little of what that looks like.
Eshu’s blues: An Open Letter to President Obama on Haiti
Posted Tue, 02/02/2010 - 21:24 by michael hureaux...
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perezObama Sec'y of Education Says Katrina "the Best Thing to Happen" to Education in New Orleans
Posted Tue, 02/02/2010 - 21:21 by Glen Ford
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordClick the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an MP3 copy.
Ruling Provides New Hope for Felon Voting Rights
Posted Tue, 02/02/2010 - 21:19 by Glen Ford
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordClick the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an MP3 copy.
War Looms in Nigeria's Oil Fields
Posted Tue, 02/02/2010 - 21:16 by Glen Ford
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordClick the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an MP3 copy.
A headless Nigerian state braces for renewed civil war in the Niger River Delta, where guerillas threaten “all-out” assaults on oil facilities. Attacks on vessels off the Nigerian coast are already comparable to Somalia.
Mainstream Media’s Tea Party Tryst
Posted Tue, 02/02/2010 - 21:13 by Sikivu Hutchinson
by Sikivu HutchinsonProtecting Haiti's Interest
Posted Tue, 02/02/2010 - 21:09 by John Maxwell
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What Next for Haiti as “Recovery” Replaces Relief?
Posted Tue, 02/02/2010 - 21:06 by Anonymous
by Danny SchechterObama State of the Union: Guns For the Pentagon, Butter For Wall Street, A Spending Freeze For You
Posted Wed, 01/27/2010 - 16:52 by Bruce A. Dixon
Back during the Vietnam war, Democratic presidents Kennedy and Johnson promised we could have guns and butter too. They lied. The cost of the Vietnam war and the world's biggest military machine quickly gutted the War on Poverty. At least our First Black President isn't telling us that old, old lie. Not all the time anyway. At his first State of the Union tonight, President Obama is expected to declare an across the board freeze on federal spending. But not on military spending, or on the Federal Reserve pipeline to Wall Street. Hail to the chief.
Larry Hamm, Organizing Black Communities in the Age of Obama
Posted Wed, 01/27/2010 - 11:52 by The Editors
by Larry Hamm
With chapters from Camden NJ in the south to Plainfield and Newark NJ in the north and New York City too, the Peoples Organization For Progress has established a solid tradition of educating and organizing African American communities against war, empire, privatization, and corporate power. At the 2010 Black Is Back national conference Larry Hamm explains what working for peace and justice in the age of Obama looks like.
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