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Bill Quigley
Social Justice Quiz 2012: Thirteen Questions
01 Feb 2012
by Bill Quigley and Sam Schmitt How large is the Black-white wealth gap? Is the U.S. really generous with its foreign aid, or a relative miser? We all know that America is Number one in mass incarceration, but who is Number Two? Test your social justice knowledge.
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Black Children’s Lives Short and Cheap in U.S.
01 Feb 2012
by BAR editor and columnist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Poverty is closer to the norm in the United States than most Americans realize. “More than half of Americans earn $26,000 a year – barely above the poverty level of $22,000 a year.” Yet the U.S. spends 50 percent more per person on…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Why Record Black Male Unemployment Remains Invisible to the First Black President
02 Feb 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon State of the Union speeches usually throw bones in every direction, to every constituency that matters to a president. But even though black male unemployment is at record levels, even higher than when the president declared the “recession” over,…
Todd Steven Burroughs
Echoes Of A Soledad Brother: The White Shadow Now Over Mumia Abu-Jamal
25 Jan 2012
by Todd Steven Burroughs Mumia Abu Jamal is out of death row but consigned to the twilight zone – or purgatory – of administrative custody placement, a status that seems to mean whatever prison officials say it means. “His transfer to general population, where he would have contact visits,…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Death of the American Dream
25 Jan 2012
by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The “American Dream” of upward mobility has always been a myth. Americans now enjoy less economic mobility than Canada and much of Western Europe.” Some of the factors that have destroyed mobility include “more children raised by single mothers, ‘uniquely high…
Gary S. Corseri
Cynthia McKinney Tells It Like It Is
22 Feb 2012
A Conversation with Gary S. Corseri The former Georgia congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate discusses the evolution of her worldview: her opposition to U.S. imperial wars (“the attack on Libya was an attack on Africa”); the “Israelization” of U.S. foreign policy; and…
Kevin Alexander Gray
Ignorance is No Excuse
22 Feb 2012
by Kevin Alexander Gray Jeremy Lin may be an ethnic novelty, but there’s nothing new or fresh about the way some folks have reacted to his displays of skill. “One can never underestimate the capacity of people to be ignorant or stupid.”
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Obama Shoots the Messengers, Attacks Whistleblowers
22 Feb 2012
by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Barack Obama campaigned under a banner of transparency in government, but has proven to be the most secrecy-fixated president of all time. Across the breadth of the bureaucracy, there is a mania to hide the facts from the people. “Senior leaders of the Department of…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Media’s True Lies
22 Feb 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley One out of three Americans believes Iran is this country’s greatest enemy – testimony to the corporate media’s powers of distortion and the grotesque national worldview that results. “We are told that Iran is poised to develop…
Anthony Monteiro
All Praise and Revolutionary Homage to Pam Africa: Our Daughter of the Dust
14 Feb 2012
by Anthony Monteiro At last, a song for an unsung heroine of the Freedom Movement. Pam Africa is the irresistible force and immovable object of the movement to free Mumia Abu Jamal. “She fought several of Mumia's lawyers whose liberalism and belief in the system inhibited their capacity to fight…