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Black Women and the Hillary Factor
24 Oct 2007
by Sikivu Hutchinson
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Hip Hop Occupies Seattle Horace Mann School
17 Nov 2011
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Letter from New Orleans: Unstable Foundations
21 Mar 2007
by Rebecca Solnit New Orleans represents what Republicans promise when they call for shrinking down government. Residents struggling to remain in the stricken city or return home find little assistance - but rather, great resistance - from government at all levels. Still, the author sees…
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The Black Church and the Civil Rights Movement: Where is the Church Now?
26 Sep 2007
by Reverend Jeanette M. Pollard, RN, APRN, BC, M.Div. The Black church isn't what it used to be. Mega-churches preach "prosperity" to their multi-thousand congregations, but often ignore the plight of the larger Black community. In the author's Washington-southern Maryland-northern Virginia…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The Black Church and the Hollowing Out of Black Politics
16 Jan 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Much of what passes for Black leadership no longer represents African American political interests or opinion, having broken from their progressive mass moorings under the lure of corporate money and “faith-based” government bribes. Black politicians dance to the…
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Obama and the Church
18 Jun 2008
by Mel Reeves Barack Obama is rethinking his religion. Or is he repositioning religion in his campaign profile? One thing seems certain: "He doesn't want a church like Trinity United Church of Christ, which ‘comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable.'" No, sir. "Trinity was too…
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News Flash: Obama Tells Lies
25 Jun 2008
by Paul Street The author has kept a scrupulous record of untruths, half-truths and evolving reconstructions of truth from Barack Obama's mouth, over the years - and there's always a fresh supply to chronicle. It's hard - truly hard - to woo Black and progressive voters while plotting a wholly…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Nazis Attack Iran
16 Jul 2007
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
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Two Years of Katrina: The Ten Most Important Lessons Learned
29 Aug 2007
by Bill Quigley
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Katrina: The Rich Folks' Opportunity and Our Dismal Failure
29 Aug 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Katrina laid bare the racism of the class that rules the United States. Their goal is to eliminate Black power in the great cities, to sweep the urban landscape clean for white habitation. The hurricane was a godsend for the corporate nation-planners, and…