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Thomas C. Mountain
Eritrea: An Island of Food in Africa’s Horn of Hunger
10 Aug 2011
by Thomas C. Mountain Drought kills, but spiraling food prices can also bring hunger. While Ethiopia exported food for cash as drought and famine loomed, Eritrea is like “an island the size of Britain where affordable bread is there for all and slowly but steadily, life gets better.” Meanwhile…
Lee A. Daniels
America’s Mass Incarceration Policy: Bad for Children
17 Dec 2010
by Lee A. Daniels The “New Jim Crow” that has thrown unprecedented numbers of Blacks behind bars and made crime and stigmatized an entire people, has also mangled the lives of Black children – whether a parent has been incarcerated or not. The generalized effects on Black kids include “…
Ron Kipling Williams
The Falling Veneer of the Great Black Hope
17 Aug 2011
by Ron Kipling Williams Despite some decline in his Black approval rating, most African Americans that voted for President Obama behave like “tourists star struck at the vision of the micro palace on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” In this period of deep crisis, we must “remove his black face and…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Libya City Said to Fall to Rebel Siege
17 Aug 2011
Western-backed rebels have made good their vow to “purge slaves, black skin,” with their reported capture of Tawurgha, a black Libyan city, after a long siege. Elsewhere, just 30 miles from the capital city of Tripoli, NATO bombed 85 civilians to oblivion. Facing a September 27 United Nations…
Norman Richmond
George Jackson: Forty Years Ago, They Shot Him Down
17 Aug 2011
by Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Bachmann for President
17 Aug 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Most Democrats are so fixated on the prospect of another Republican in the White House, they are oblivious to the actual crimes of the current resident. “It is true that [Texas Gov. Rick] Perry called Social Security a ponzi scheme, but it…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Obama & the Fake Debt Ceiling Crisis: This President Is Really Just Smarter Than You Are
27 Jul 2011
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon So why won’t the president call Republican and bankster bluffs and shut down the phony debt ceiling crisis? Why won’t the Republicans take yes-may-I -have-another-tax-cut-for-the-rich for an answer? And why won’t president Obama stand up and fight for the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: How to Remember 9/11
24 Aug 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley In a few weeks, it all begins again: the howling scream-whine of a narcissistic nation oscillating wildly between fits of megalomania and depressive woe-is-me-ism. “Will there be calls for a true investigation into what the government knew…
Sikivu Hutchinson
Los Angeles Schools’ Apartheid Hall of Shame (Part One)
25 Aug 2011
by Sikivu Hutchinson It sounds like racial profiling in education, on a massive, institutional scale. “Black students are targeted, penalized and pushed-out in dizzyingly obscene numbers that predict and mirror their disproportionate numbers in L.A. County juvenile detention centers and adult…
Sikivu Hutchinson
LAUSD’s Apartheid Hall of Shame, Part 2: A View from the Classroom
08 Sep 2011
by Sikivu Hutchinson The Black student “push-out” phenomenon is directly related to Black mass incarceration. Studies show that “African Americans go to the dean’s office for less serious offenses than do Latinos and whites.” Disruptive behavior is in the subjective perception of the beholding…