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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Ernest Withers the Informant
22 Sep 2010
by BAR editor and senior Margaret Kimberley The trusted “movement” photographer was a spy for J. Edgar Hoover. Ernest Withers apparently cashed in on his close relationship with unsuspecting Black Sixties activists, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Withers is dead, but not forgiven. “The…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Foreclosure Fraud
13 Oct 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley It is senseless to expect Democrats to save the people from the worsening housing crisis, since Democrats are as culpable for the disaster as the Republicans. It was Democrats in the House and Senate that passed a bill to allow banks to…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Political Snobbery
04 Nov 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Increasingly, the Democratic Party is a near-empty vessel. Democrats “look down their noses at Tea Partiers with misspelled words on their signs but exalt Clinton era drug enforcement policies which filled the jails and the enactment of NAFTA…
Bill Quigley
Has Change Come to Post-Katrina New Orleans?
29 Apr 2009
If you want to measure the distance between George Bush and Barack Obama on domestic political issues, Katrina provides the best test. What emerges is a startling continuity of policy toward New Orleans between the Republican and Democratic White Houses – especially regarding the fate of public…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Prepares to Triangulate Himself
20 Oct 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford What a guy! Barack Obama has neutralized Blacks, the white left, and the majority of his own party in service to Wall Street, and some still call him “liberal” (The insane call him “socialist.”) With Social Security and Medicare in his sights, “the stage is…
michael hureaux perez
Eshu’s Blues: charter schools and the rest of us
22 Oct 2008
by michael hureaux John McCain and Barack Obama "share the same market nostrums for education reform, from charter schools to merit pay to the test mania of No Child Left Behind," but have no inkling of the meaning of comprehensive education. An educator himself, the author advocates that…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Teachers File Racial Discrimination Suit Against Obama Administration's School “Turnaround” Plan
17 Jun 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Public-private partnerships between Chicago's City Hall, where two men named Richard Daley have ruled more than 40 of the last 55 years, and a gaggle of corporate bagmen from the Gates, Bradley, Walton and other foundations have honed a disastrous “education…
michael hureaux perez
Eshu’s blues: Obama and Duncan’s “Race to the Top”
19 Aug 2009
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan are sold on charter schools and so-called “public-private partnerships.” In order to impose their corporate philosophy of education, the duo wave $5 billion under the noses of hard-pressed states,…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Obama's First 100 Days -- The Black Agenda Report Card
29 Apr 2009
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce A. Dixon Why a Report Card At All? The hundred day report card is an enduring tradition in American journalism for a very good reason. It's journalism's job to help citizens make sense of the world, to seek the truth and tell it without fear or favor no matter where it…
Bill Quigley
High Stakes Teaching and the “Value-Added” Sham
25 Aug 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson The Los Angeles Times recently weighed in against the city’s scapegoated teachers, giving public school elementary educators low marks on so-called ‘value-added’ assessments – a term that is as corporate as they come. The new regime serves neither teachers nor students. Rather…