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Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Master Biden Speaks
16 Dec 2020
The civil rights groups’ rather basic requests for voting rights protections and the need for federal intervention to address police brutality were minimized and dismissed by the president-elect.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Black Demands for the Biden Administration
10 Dec 2020
The Black Misleaders give the impression of exercising black empowerment when they are in fact only promoting themselves.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Rebellion, Confusion, Scoundrels and Kente Cloth
10 Jun 2020
Black rebellion brings insecurity to those in power, as editors, mayors and even long dead criminals are being called to account.
K. Scott
Ooh La La: Atlanta’s Mayor Keisha and Civil Rights Myths in the Black “Mecca”
10 Jun 2020
Mayor Lance Bottoms brought in troops to occupy her city while claiming that protesters dishonored the memory of MLK.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Movement Gets BIG – and Its Enemies Reveal Themselves
04 Jun 2020
The decrepit racial capitalist order appears to be unraveling under the weight of coronavirus, economic depression, and a quantitative leap in people’s willingness to confront power through the pol
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Black Misleaders Seek to End Protest
03 Jun 2020
The nationwide protests have forced the Black quisling class to reveal themselves as agents of the racial and economic status quo.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Michael Jordan’s “Last Dance:” A Celebration of the American Nightmare
27 May 2020
Michael Jordan embodies the kind of athlete and Black leader that the U.S. ruling class has gone to great lengths to cultivate.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Identity Politics and Elite Capture
20 May 2020
The trouble is that identity politics is the victim of elite capture in the service of their own interests.
Jon Jeter
Michael Jordan's Sad Legacy as the Plutocrats' Champ, and the Anti-Ali
29 Apr 2020
Ali, the People’s Champ, hurtled into the breach to come to the aid of his community while Jordan did all he could to distance himself.
Russell Rickford
Black Politics, Class Struggle and the Illusion of Centrism
25 Mar 2020
Black Democratic Party operatives seek to camouflage class antagonisms among African Americans and to equate racial progress with the feeble policies of “diversity and inclusion.”