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Make MLK’s Teachings Part of School Curriculum
21 Jan 2019
Dr Martin Luther King’s writings and speeches “should be a part of the curriculum of public schools,” said Larry Hamm, chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress, based in
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Philly DA is Focus of Mumia Rally
15 Jan 2019
Supporters of Mumia Abu Jamal rallied in Philadelphia, demanding that District Attorney Larry Krasner not thwart his appeal of a police murder conviction, 38 years ago.
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Blacks and Latinos Face Global South” Conditions in US
15 Jan 2019
Black and Latino workers in the US are more favorable to unions because they “are most like workers in the Global South,” where workers are super-exploited, said Michael Yates, the
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New Cold War Crazier Than the Old One
14 Jan 2019
“The peril of this new Cold War is especially great,” said Russia expert Stephen Cohen, “because even when Trump does something sensible with Russia on behalf of our national secur
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A “Pathway to Freedom” for Mumia
08 Jan 2019
A recent court ruling that “there was, in fact, judicial bias” in denying Mumia Abu Jamal’s appeal of his conviction in the 1982 death of a cop shows that “this is a different moment in American hi
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Black Is Back Chairman: US System in Trouble
08 Jan 2019
“The entire system is held in high disregard,” said Black Is Back Coalition chairman Omali Yeshitela,” and that’s why you see the disappearance of the so-called ‘center’” in the tw
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Michelle Obama's Memoir "Becoming" -- Lots of Stories, Few Lessons
03 Jan 2019
If anybody else had written it, the first hundred pages of Michelle Obama’s book “Becoming” would stand as a brief, but warm and fuzzy memoir of growing up on the black south side of Chicago.
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Gang Activity is False Cover for Mass NYC Arrests
31 Dec 2018
Mass arrests targeting hundreds of young Black and brown New Yorkers are based on false premises and hyped-up evidence, said Robert Gangi, of the Police Reform Organizing Project (
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US Empire on the Ropes
24 Dec 2018
We are witnessing “the beginning of the end of a world order that was hatched after World War Two,” said Duboisian scholar Dr Anthony Monteiro.
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BAP Welcomes Trump Exit from Syria
24 Dec 2018
The Black Alliance for Peace sees the Trump administration’s announced withdrawal of US troops from Syria as “an attempt to realign itself with international law.” The US presence in Syria is “ille