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Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Playing ‘SCOTUS Says’ to death?
19 Jul 2023
Playing ‘SCOTUS Says’ to death?
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Supreme Court and Political Corruption
05 Jul 2023
The Supreme Court has always been a political institution. Racism, political expediency, and outright corruption have always dictated its decisions.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Glen Ford: Clarence Thomas, the “Anti-Black,” 2007
27 Jul 2022
An essay by the late Glen Ford recounts the perverse origin story of the twisted life and lies of Clarence Thomas.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Democratic Party Betrayal, Abortion, and the Supreme Court
08 Dec 2021
Democrats have been fooled into thinking that only the courts can protect abortion rights. In fact, legislation could protect abortion permanently, but their party has refused to do that.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Long Night Has Fallen on the Supreme Court -- Thanks Largely to Democrats
10 Oct 2018
If the Democrats were serious they would have treated each reactionary GOP nominee over the decades as a bullet to the heart of their constituents. They did not.
Greg Palast
Ohio’s Junk Mail Trick Led the Supreme Court to Approve Jim Crow Voter Purge
27 Jun 2018
“The Help America Vote Act blew open a giant loophole in the National Voter Registration Act’s protections.”
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
How Complacency, Complicity of Black Misleadership Class Led to Supreme Court Evisceration of the Voting Rights Act
27 Jun 2013
The Supreme Court kneecapping of the Voting Rights Act didn't have to happen? Democrats, especially the black leadership class had more than a generation to exploit their moral and political high…
The Real News Network
Supreme Court Kneecaps Voting Rights Act: The Real News Network Talks to Bruce A. Dixon
26 Jun 2013
Supreme Court kneecaps the voting rights act... BAR's Bruce A. Dixon on the Real News Network Real News Network, where you can find much more news updated every day at http://therealnews.com.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
The Supreme Court? Is This Why We Vote For Democrats?
12 May 2010
We vote for Democrats, the argument goes, because sending a Republican to the White House means sending racist conservative neanderthals to the Supreme Court. A clinching argument right?