Margaret Kimberley

Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Tar Sands Hell in Detroit
07 Aug 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley A vast pile of toxic waste, 40 feet high, sits by the Detroit River, the symbol and substance of the contempt in which Black urban dwellers are…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Obama Fights to Keep Black People in Jail
31 Jul 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Obama administration is fighting a federal court ruling that would free the remainder of the mostly Black prison inmates convicted under now-…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Corporate Media’s Mass Hypnosis
24 Jul 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Delivery systems and platforms for information may proliferate at blinding speed, but most Americans have no access to anything resembling the…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Obama Dog Whistles Over Trayvon
17 Jul 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley George Zimmerman was acquitted because the jury empathized with him as a fellow human being, and felt no such connection with Trayvon Martin and…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: If George Zimmerman Goes Free
10 Jul 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley “As a group, how will we react to the denial of justice for Trayvon Martin and the hundreds of others whose names we don’t even know” that have…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Obama, Mandela and Dangerous Mythology
03 Jul 2013
By BAR Editor & Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley The Obamas' visit to South Africa, for people of color on both sides of the Atlantic, is heavy on symbolism and photo-ops, but devoid of any…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The World Says Yes to Snowden, No to Obama
26 Jun 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The United States is pitching an international fit, a super-tantrum over much of the refusal of much of the world to let Washington have its way…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Syrian Press Pass
19 Jun 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The corporate media are the megaphones of humanitarian death, as dispensed by the U.S. and its allies. If Obama says “Assad must go,” the high-…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Snowden Litmus Test
12 Jun 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley No sooner had they learned Edward Snowden’s name, than bipartisan supporters of the National Security State proceeded to vilify him. “The…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Et tu Bill Thompson?
05 Jun 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Bill Thompson, the Black candidate for mayor of New York City who endorses stop-and-frisk and has reactionary Republicans collecting money…