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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Farewell Congressman Kucinich
14 Mar 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley With the gerrymandered defeat of Dennis Kucinich, the Congress has lost its last, best progressive. “Called crazy or wacky, Kucinich is nothing more than what other Democrats ought to be.” Kucinich stood firm, when all in the…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
No FEAR: Chapter 3 -- Ultimatum To Public Service
14 Mar 2012
by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Dr. Coleman-Adebayo, a heroine of the whistleblower movement, tells her story in the book No Fear: A Whistleblowers Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA. She is also an editor and columnist for Black Agenda Report, and has graciously allowed us to serialize…
Jesse Hagopian
Occupy Education vs Gates Foundation: Policy Throwdown!
14 Mar 2012
by Jesse Hagopian The direct ancestors of today’s high stakes tests were “designed by racist pseudoscientists of the early 20th century” to “prove that whites born in the U.S. were the most intelligent of all peoples.” Today’s tests, championed by corporations and the Obama…
The Editors
Imam Jamil Al Amin at 1997 DC Tribute to Kwame Toure
21 Mar 2012
This is the brief address delivered by Imam Jamil Al Amin, known in his youth as H. Rap Brown at a 1996 farewell tribute to his friend and comrade Kwame Toure, also known as Stokley Carmichael.
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Barack Obama, Democratic Expectations and the Magic Wand
21 Mar 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon What are the people who tell us President Obama hasn't got a “magic wand” really saying? That we have no right to expect a president to use the power of his office to address mass incarceration, the housing, foreclosure, student and consumer debt crises,…
Jemima Pierre
Assassinations at Home and Abroad
21 Mar 2012
by BAR editor and columnist Jemima Pierre The rule of law is everywhere in retreat. Racist vigilante justice trumps Blacks’ right to life in Florida and a growing number of “shoot first” states, while the U.S. president claims the right to kill at will, internationally. “The Florida…
BATV
Introducing Black Agenda TV
21 Mar 2012
Black Agenda TV Pilot from Black Agenda Report on Vimeo. We are excited to present to our readers this demonstration version of BATV, the video program that will become part of the Black Agenda Report team’s regular schedule, later this year. BATV is a work in progress, and this demo is by no…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Justice, Not Drama, for Trayvon Martin
21 Mar 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The global spotlight is shining on Sanford, Florida, where a white vigilante ended the life of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. But publicity also draws its own kind of flies. Obama apologist Al Sharpton will appear at a rally for justice for…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Social Media Scam Alert: Top Ten Ways to Tell Kony is Phony
14 Mar 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Thanks to relentless promotion by corporate media, government, celebrities, right wing foundations & church groups, & politicians of both corporate parties, the Kony 2012 video has “gone viral.” Viewed on YouTube more than a hundred million…
Jordan Flaherty
Race, Gender, and Occupy
21 Mar 2012
by Sweta Vohra and Jordan Flaherty From it beginnings last year, the Occupy Wall Street movement has been dominated by whites and embroiled in questions of white privilege. Activists of color insist that issues of corporate greed cannot be tackled in a vacuum, but must be “connected to racism,…