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  • Paul Street
    How Poor Black Lives Matter to U.S. Capitalism Today: Reflections on “The New Jim Crow”
    01 Jul 2015
    by Paul Street The U.S. mass incarceration regime measures Black lives by the value that can be derived from their imprisonment. “The ‘new Jim Crow’ is about disciplining a deindustrialized Black…
  • Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
    Capitalism and Racism are About Who Rules: Analyzing Power in the Here and Now
    01 Jul 2015
    by Danny Haiphong “Even if the second flag of white rule (the ‘American’ flag being the first) eventually comes down, the racist system that produced the Confederacy remains upright.” Symbolism is…
  • Thomas Ruffin Jr.
    President Obama is a Traitor to the Black Race: An Open Letter
    01 Jul 2015
    by Thomas Ruffin, Jr. The First Black U.S. President perpetuates the modern-day slavery of mass Black incarceration; “espouses, like Rush Limbaugh, an allegiance to ‘American exceptionalism;’”…
  • Angola 3 News
    Restorative Justice for Albert Woodfox and the Black Panther Party – An Interview with Prof. Angela A. Allen-Bell
    01 Jul 2015
    by Angola 3 News The release of Albert Woodfox, the last of the Angola Three still in prison, has been delayed by the State of the Louisiana and a compliant federal court. Woodfax, the Black Panthers…
  • Solomon Comissiong
    The Confederate Flag is Not the Only Thing That Should Be Abolished
    01 Jul 2015
    by Solomon Comissiong The Confederate flag is only the tip of the iceberg of bigoted symbolism that permeates the nation’s popular and official culture. “United States society is riddled with racist…
  • Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 29, 2015
    30 Jun 2015
    Don’t Just Count Black Bodies – We Need a Program of Liberation Veteran Malcolm X Grassroots Movement activist Kali Akuno is a co-author of the 2012 report Operation Ghetto Storm, which documented…
  • Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
    The Perils of the Politics of Symbolism
    24 Jun 2015
    by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Charleston church massacre has occasioned a revival of symbolic and “reconciliation” politics by old school Black preachers. “They forgive, they call for…
  • Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
    Closing the Historical Circle: White Terrorism at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church
    24 Jun 2015
    by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The commander-in-chief of the greatest purveyor of violence in the world laments the massacre in Charleston. But “Obama just wants to make sure that the…
  • Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
    Obama and the Logic of Massacre, from Birmingham to Charleston
    24 Jun 2015
    by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo President Obama took to the airwaves to absolve his administration of responsibility for the Charleston Massacre and endemic racist…
  • Chris Hedges
    America’s Slave Empire: The Resistance Movements Against US Prisons
    24 Jun 2015
    by Chris Hedges “We are not looking to politicians to submit reform bills,” say prisoners in Alabama, withholding work until they are paid wages. “We aren’t giving more money to lawyers. We don’t…
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