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Bill Quigley
Mic Check!! Occupy Atlanta Demands FCC Stop Privatizations, Grant New Channels to Nonprofit Community Broadcasters
06 Dec 2011
At a December 1 public meeting held by the FCC in Atlanta, ostensibly to determine the area's communications needs, Occupy Atlanta, the GA Green Party, WRFG-FM radio, People TV and other organizations came together to demand the FCC stop the privatizations of new channels, distribute new…
Gerald A. Perreira
Demons Unleashed in Libya: NATO’s Islamists Continue Program of Ethnic and Ideological Cleansing
07 Dec 2011
The horror continues in Libya behind “a complete whiteout by the corporate media regarding all news from Libya.” Even the United Nations, an architect of the nation’s destruction, says 7,000 prisoners are held without trial or charge, most of them Black, many of them tortured. “Any known Qaddafi…
Alton H. Maddox Jr.
To Obama: Require Television To Cover Black Political Issues
07 Dec 2011
by Alton H. Maddox, Jr. President Obama must intervene to ensure that Blacks gain meaningful access to the television airwaves. The author points out that “no public programming, on any day, exists in six commercial television stations broadcasting in three states for persons of African…
Paul Street
Urban Neoliberal Racism, Mass Poverty, and the Repression of Occupy Wall Street
07 Dec 2011
by Paul Street Big city mayors, most of them Democrats, colluded with federal Homeland Security officials to devise a uniform pretext to clean out Occupy Wall Street sites: they were a “threat to public health and safety.” But poverty is the real source of the urban health and safety crisis. “A…
Sikivu Hutchinson
Black Scholarship, Non-Theism and Radical Politics: Where are the Writers?
07 Dec 2011
by Sikivu Hutchinson To hear white institutions tell it, Black non-theists have nothing important to say about the human condition. But, in fact, “Black secular humanist critical inquiry stretches back to Frederick Douglass's era to the Harlem Renaissance and into the 1960s Black Power…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Occupy Movement, Gentrification and Black America’s Ancient Struggle
08 Dec 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Occupy Wall Street movement faces challenges of relevance, and permanence, that must be addressed this winter. Most importantly, and like all American social movements, it must come to grips with the overarching issue of race. “Black people require…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Black America at the Bottom
07 Dec 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley New U.S. Census data show “black Americans are at the absolute bottom of the economic heap in a county still teetering from the effects of a seemingly endless recession.” With the median household income at $50,000, African American…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
The Hypocrisy of Democracy and How Our Failures Create Environmental Devastation for Our Children
07 Dec 2011
by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo This is the only environment that we have, but the Obama administration is proving itself to be bad steward. “As part of Obama’s ongoing betrayal of campaign promises, he recently struck down new measures that would have seen the U.S. partially reduce emissions.”…
Bill Quigley
Twenty Examples of the Obama Administration Assault on Domestic Civil Liberties
07 Dec 2011
by Bill Quigley Is the Obama administration really better for civil liberties than his Republican predecessor? The author fails to find any fundamental difference between the two. For example, “Wireless fingerprint scanners first used by troops in Iraq are now being utilized by local police…
Bill Quigley
The Great Black Hajj of 2009
28 Jan 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The huge inaugural gathering on the Washington Mall - two million people, about half of them African American - resembled nothing so much as a Hajj. The assembled multitudes "were committed to a once (or, at least, first) in a lifetime trek to Washington to bear…