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Tolu Olorunda
Home is Where the Hatred Is: A Conversation With Isabel Wilkerson
23 Feb 2011
by Tolu Olorunda The mass Black relocation from the Old Confederacy to the North was one of “the greatest unreported stories of the Twentieth Century,” said Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Greatest Migration. Journalist Tolu Olorunda…
Sikivu Hutchinson
Planned Parenthood and the Rape of American Women
23 Feb 2011
by Sikivu Hutchinson The right-wing lynch mob is out to destroy Planned Parenthood in the same way it smashed ACORN. In addition to the usual white suspects, “these pro-death marauders” are reinforced by “black preachers, and Christian soldiers like MLK’s anti-abortion activist niece…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“We’re Broke,” Say the Rich, and the Poor Must Pay
23 Feb 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford A society built on racist lies and outright nonsense will believe anything. Therefore, it is no wonder that Republicans have achieved such “wondrous success by planting the words ‘We’re broke’ in the mouths of men and women who are transparently rich,…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama & Neo-Liberalism are the Daleys' Gifts to Chicago and the Nation. Thanks.
23 Feb 2011
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Chicago's Daley regime was a half century orgy of arrogance, racism and plunder. Thanks to President Obama, it not only continues with the succession of Rahm Emanuel to the fifth floor office of Chicago's mayor, but with nationwide implementation of diastrous…
Bill Quigley
Que Vivan Los Viciosos (Long Live The Vicious)
26 Feb 2011
Netfa Freeman
Ending Poverty In Latin America: Interview with ALBA's Amenothep Zambrano
02 Mar 2011
by Netfa Freeman ALBA, the Spanish-language acronym for the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our Americans, is a regional trade group of leftist Latin American governments determined to eradicate poverty in the region. That makes ALBA a clear and present danger to so-called U.S. interests…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: American Murder in Pakistan
02 Mar 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley “The lies began at the very top, with the president’s own words.” The President of the United States went before the American people – and the world – lied about a U.S. spy held for killing two Pakistanis, and blatantly…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Wisconsin: The End of Obama-ism
02 Mar 2011
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The struggle in Wisconsin, and those to come, must shape a politics that is independent of the uniparty, the Democratic section of which is headed by Barack Obama. Significantly, “students and other protesters don’t want Obama to intervene…
Gerald A. Perreira
Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective
02 Mar 2011
The conflict in Libya is not a revolution, but a counter-revolution. The struggle “is fundamentally a battle between Pan-African forces on the one hand, who are dedicated to the realization of Qaddafi's vision of a united Africa, and reactionary racist Libyan Arab forces who reject Qaddafi's vision…
Al Jazzeera
African Migrants Targeted in Libya
02 Mar 2011
from Al Jazeera Anti-Khadafi forces have already killed hundreds of sub-Saharan Blacks, supposed because Black “mercenaries” are fighting for Khadafi. About 1.5m Sub-Saharan African migrants work in Libya as low-paid laborers. Said one man from Mali, “"The most dangerous situation is for foreigners…