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Richard Dunn
New Bill That Passed House Reinvokes Old Russian Bogeyman as Pretext For More U.S. Intervention in Africa
15 Jun 2022
Democrats and republicans alike supported a bil to "counter malign Russian influence in Africa." Such legislation is reminiscent of the worst days of the cold war. Now a member of the Congressional…
Black Alliance For Peace
On African Liberation Day Biden’s Troop Deployment to Somalia Confirms Africa is Not Free
25 May 2022
The Black Alliance for Peace marks African Liberation Day with a statement condemning the latest US troop deployment to Somalia.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Black Caucus Fails on Ukraine
15 Mar 2022
The members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) follow Biden's Ukraine policy in lock step. In doing so they fail their constituents and discredit the legacy of Black politics.
Donald Shaw
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Has a New Corporate Megadonor
09 Feb 2022
Amazon donated $1.7 million to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation last year as it faced allegations of illegal anti-union work.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The U.S. Black Political Class and War
02 Feb 2022
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Terri Sewell, the Worst of the Black Caucus, Subverts $15 Wage Bill
18 Apr 2019
Selma, Alabama, has produced the most reactionary Black Congressperson in modern times, part of the Democratic Party’s increasing servitude to corporate interests.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
The Black Political Class and Network Neutrality
21 Dec 2017
Earlier this month, Chicago journalist Curtis Black called the office of Congressman Bobby Rush (D- IL) to ask what the congressman’s position on net neutrality was, now that Donald Trump is presid
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Blacks, War and the Phony “Resistance”
07 Dec 2017
“The Democrats are ‘all in’ for the Pentagon, including a majority of the Congressional Black Caucus.”
The Real News Network
Glen Ford: Backward Black Congresswoman Demands Facebook Censor the Left Because Russia?
06 Oct 2017
AARON MATÉ: It's The Real News. I'm Aaron Maté. Facebook is giving Congress the 3,000 ads it says were likely bought by Russian linked accounts to influence the 2016 election.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Indecency of the Black Misleadership Class
09 Aug 2017
If Congresswoman Barbara Lee is among the best that the Black political class has to offer -- which she is -- then that class is “wholly unfit to guide the politics of 40 million people.”