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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Christopher Hitchens, White Man
21 Dec 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley There was nothing witty, cute, or endearing about the late Christopher Hitchens, a racist to the core whose association with the Left served only to discredit it. “Beneath his mutterings against ‘Islamofascism’ he was nothing more…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Georgia Prison Strike, One Year Later: Activists Outside the Walls Have Failed Those Inside the Walls
21 Dec 2011
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In December 2010 inmates in up to a dozen Georgia prisons either refused to leave their cells for work assignments, or were pre-emptively locked down by prison officials. They demanded wages for work, access to educational programs, fairness in release…
Bill Quigley
Migrants’ Rights Are Human Rights! Take Local Police Out of Immigration Enforcement
21 Dec 2011
by Bill Quigley and Sunita Patel The predatory anti-immigrant federal program Secure Communities needs to be gotten rid off, abolished. “The Obama administration was not transparent with Congress about Secure Communities’ true purpose when it asked for over $2 billion for the program…
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey – Week of September 19, 2011
20 Sep 2011
McKinney: Ethnic Cleansing Spreads in Libya “Ethnic cleansing is taking place in Libya,” said former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. “People are being killed because of the color of their skin.” Atrocities like the virtual erasure of the mostly Black city of Tawergha by rebels have “…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Occupy Wall Street’s Next Phase: Avoid Cooptation in Election Season
18 Jan 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The election season is in full swing, and Democratic tentacles are reaching out to caress the Occupy Wall Street movement and its new, Black partner, Occupy The Dream. How does OWS fight the temptations of cooptation? “If nonpartisanship means…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Black America Paralyzed, Powerless, Irrelevant: Year 4 of the Obama Era
18 Jan 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Next week will mark the third anniversary of Barack Obama's inauguration, and the unveiling of his fourth budget. Already White House spokespeople admit that it will be bad news for black and poor Americans. In three years this president has investigated…
Abayomi Azikiwe
South African President Attacks United Nations Over War Against Libya
18 Jan 2012
The President of South Africa began his rotating month as president of the UN Security Council with a rebuke of the world body’s relationship with African states. “Although South Africa voted in favor of UN Resolution 1973 that authorized a so-called ‘no-fly zone’ over Libya, the action was clearly…
Don DeBar
The Missing Quote from the King Memorial
18 Jan 2012
by Don DeBar Fifteen quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. are carved into his memorial on the Washington Mall, but perhaps his harshest indictment of the United States is absent: “…I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Poverty in America: The Subject Presidential Candidates Would Prefer to Ignore
18 Jan 2012
by BAR editor and columnist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo U.S. decline in the world is no longer just a trend, but a fact. Cold statistics tell us that our young people “will never experience the prosperity we, their parents, did.” Yet, amidst growing misery, the American electoral…
Jemima Pierre
The Puppet, the Dictator, and the President: Haiti Today and Tomorrow
18 Jan 2012
by BAR editor and columnist Jemima Pierre, PhD There they were, at the official ceremony: the living, breathing banes of Haiti’s existence. “Rubbing shoulders on stage, shaking hands and exchanging pleasantries were Haitian President Michel Martelly, former US President and UN Special…