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by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Bogus "Election Study" Grossly Inflates Black Vote For Denise Majette
02 Nov 2002
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Corporate media and establishment black "political scientists" want us to believe Rep. McKinney lost her congressional seat because black voters walked away from her, and that her opponent Denise Majette put together some new kind of "biracial coalition." But…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Corporate Biopiracy and the Terminator Seed
28 Apr 2005
by Bruce Dixon Originally published in Black Commentator on April 28, 2005 It is arguably the most fiendish product yet devised by corporate genetic engineers Ever since humans started farming about ten thousand years ago, farmers have saved the seed from one year’s crop to produce…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Being Black is Deadly
04 Apr 2012
by Margaret Kimberley Injustice is the law of the land for Black people in America. Life cannot be lived safely, when one belongs to the prey population. Even safety devices can get a Black man killed, if they are wired to local law enforcement. The post-mortem might read: “Police say…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Trayvon Martin and the Need for an Independent Human Rights Movement
04 Apr 2012
by Ajamu Baraka The author calls for a “National Alliance for Racial Justice and Human Rights” to escape the constraining web of “liberal” cause funders that lack “any connection to grassroots organizations or popular social change networks, alliances or coalitions.” Genuine human…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
After Troy Davis, After Trayvon Martin: What A Real Justice Movement Will Look Like
05 Apr 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon What would a real movement for justice in the wake of Troy Davis and Trayvon Martin look like? How can we actually engage the authorities, and the Obama administration with concrete demands to prevent the next Trayvon Martins? Our friends at the US Human…
Werner Lange
Trayvon Martin and Crime in the Suites
04 Apr 2012
by Werner Lange Florida State Prosecutor Norman R. Wolfinger, who was forced to recuse himself from the Trayvon Martin case after trying to derail it, has shown a “disturbing pattern of selective prosecution and institutionalized racism” over two decades. Among many intrigues involving race and…
Obi Egbuna Jr.
Add Trayvon to the List and Keep On Fighting
04 Apr 2012
by Obi Egbuna Jr. President Obama made a cheap connection to aggrieved Black American with his statement that, had he had a son, the child would have “looked like Trayvon.” Yet this president, like his predecessors, kills young people that look like Trayvon all the time.
Dady Chery
Paramilitary Gangs Join UN Force in Preying on Haitian
04 Apr 2012
by Dady Chery Wannabe Tontons Macoutes have taken over the former bases of Haiti’s disbanded army – a force the U.S.-backed Haitian president was to restore. The appearance of the paramilitaries coincides with murderous attacks on supporters of ousted President Jean Bertrand-Aristide, &…
Abayomi Azikiwe
Mali in Crisis: Timbuktu Taken by Tuareg Forces
04 Apr 2012
by Abayomi Azikiwe The ancient city of Timbuktu is embroiled in a conflict that is a spillover of last year’s NATO assault on Libya. “With the political & economic situation in Libya becoming extremely hostile towards Black Libyans & Africans from other parts of the continent, thousands of…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Vanadium, Green Crimes and the White House
04 Apr 2012
by BAR editor and columnist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The US and the global community use workers as cheap, disposable commodities.” That’s certainly the case with the strategic mineral vanadium, the extraction of which in South Africa has led to the gruesome deaths of many miners. “The victims…