African America

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Oprah and Sharpton Attack Black Lives Matter Movement
05 Feb 2015
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Why I Don't Do Kwaanza
18 Dec 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Ron Karenga, the man who invented Kwaanza, headed the US organization, which was responsible for the murder of 4 Black Panthers in Southern California as a tool…
Jahi Issa
How Black Colleges are Turning White: The Ethnic Cleansing of HBCUs in the Age of Obama, Part II
22 Oct 2014
by Dr. Jahi Issa Black enrollment at historically white universities continues to plummet, while federal support for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) crumbles at an accelerated…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Germany Just Made College Tuition Free? Why Won't Our Black Political Class Fight For Free Tuition Here?
09 Oct 2014
Germany just made college tuition free for everybody including foreign students! Free tuition here would cost about $62 billion, roughly what the US govt already spends on loans, grants and…
The Black Caucus “Left” Wing Crumbles Before Obama’s War Machine
24 Sep 2014
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford It took just three years for most Americans to conclude that George Bush’s war in Iraq should come to an end. But, after three years of failure in Syria,…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
The Black Political Class? The Congressional Black Caucus? These Joes Ain't Loyal
17 Sep 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Why does the Congressional Black Caucus endorse Israeli apartheid? Why do our black mayors embrace gentrification, our civil rights organizations side with their…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Folks are Going Nowhere Until We Discard the Misleadership Class
28 Aug 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The movement in Ferguson has, once again, showed that the Black Misleadership Class acts as the “soft power” for the Mass Black Incarceration State, complimenting…
Zeynep Tufekci
What Happens to #Ferguson Affects Ferguson: Net Neutrality, Algorithmic Filtering and Ferguson
26 Aug 2014
This timely article explains how Twitter assisted the public in knowing about Ferguson, and essentially forced corporate media to cover it, while Facebook did the opposite.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
“Civil Rights” Leaders, Politic365 bloggers, CBC Members Get Paid, the Public Gets Played on Network Neutrality.
26 Aug 2014
Is there any part of the black political class that isn't for sale, or hasn't been already been leased by Comcast, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T or Time-Warner?
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Cowardly, Hypocritical, Subservient Congressional Black Caucus Endorses Israeli Apartheid and Current War Crimes in Gaza
31 Jul 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Only 2 of over 40 Congressional Black Caucus members voted against legitimizing the 2009 Israeli massacre of 1400 mostly civilians in Gaza, with seven CBC…