Margaret Kimberley

Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Prison Rape, America’s Torture
01 Sep 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Americans look with horror at places like Congo where rape is a tool of warfare, yet are apt to make light of appalling levels of sexual abuse in…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: “Sacred” Ground Zero
25 Aug 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If American whites practiced what many of them preach to Muslims, they would ban themselves from building cultural institutions of any kind in…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Israel, Big Money and Obama
19 Aug 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Wealthy Americans whose paramount issue is unlimited support for Israel create huge distortions in U.S. politics, bending presidents to their…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Public Theft and the End of Empire
12 Aug 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If it feels like this economic roller coaster ride is stuck on down, you’re right. At the same historical moment that the public sector is put…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: White Citizenship
04 Aug 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley After all is said and done, what much of the so-called Tea Party wants is a return to America as a White Man’s Country. There are a few…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Shirley Sherrod’s Righteous Anger
28 Jul 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley “Like ACORN, Sherrod was victimized by a Democratic administration which revels in its willingness to assist the right in throwing its own…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider on Vacation
14 Jul 2010
BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley is on vacation for the issues of Wednesday, July 14 and July 21. Her “Freedom Rider” column returns to these pages on July 28.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Obama and the Nadir of Black America
07 Jul 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley For Black America, it is the worst of times, but a kind of collective insanity leads African Americans to believe they live in the best of…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Americans Have No Rights
02 Jul 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Under Barack Obama, the former professor of constitutional law, Americans’ civil liberties have shrunken drastically – to the point…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Death of Black Politics
22 Jun 2010
by BAR editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley New York Rep. Charles Rangel is among the many Black elected officials that make periodic figurative and actual pilgrimages to…