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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: White Guys With Guns
16 Apr 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The latest flare-up between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton shows how inane their battles-about-nothing have become - the inevitable result when there's no substantive difference between the contestants. Much of Obama's campaign has been…
Bill Quigley
The Lords of Capital Decree Mass Death by Starvation
16 Apr 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Having crushed the planet's peasants and converted food into just another commodity for global manipulation, the Lord's of Capital have unleashed upon humanity the threat - no, certainty - of mass starvation. The criminal mega-enterprise is centered in…
Bill Quigley
King Commemoration and Revisionism
16 Apr 2008
by Mel Reeves If Martin Luther King were to return 40 years after his assassination, he might not recognize himself. Revising and repackaging Dr. King's politics in order to render the human rights leader harmless, even quaint, is a twice-yearly game played mainly by those who would preserve the…
Bill Quigley
Reclaiming Radio
16 Apr 2008
by Michelle Chen Activists across the nation have devised a number of strategies to combat the "white noise" of corporate commercial radio. From organized shout-outs by prison inmates to the folks back in the ‘hood, to open civil rights organizing on the airwaves, to grassroots "training to…
Bill Quigley
Alicia Keys Hits a Not So Strange Note
23 Apr 2008
by Mel Reeves Add to the general controversy over who is to blame for so-called Gangsta Rap, the question of who is qualified to speak authoritatively on the subject. Songstress Alicia Keys was widely pressured to shut up when she shared her thoughts on the origins of the genre. Initially, Keys…
Bill Quigley
Obama Snubs Black Media
23 Apr 2008
by Betty Pleasant The Black press is just as enthusiastic as African Americans in general at the prospect of a Black man becoming the next occupant of the White House. But Black newspaper owners also expected that they would be beneficiaries of what is already the most lavish campaign…
Bill Quigley
Who Sounded the Black Ideological Retreat
19 Mar 2008
by Mel Reeves When did Black liberation theology and the prophetic tradition of the black church become "hate speech"? When did asserting that racism was and remains foundational to the nation's settlement, development and culture become itself "racist" and "anti-American"? When did…
Bill Quigley
Poetry from Kemit Mawakana
19 Mar 2008
A.K.A. the Seven Foot Poet This week the 7 foot poet muses on the worth of a life spent spitting on the mic, a life lived for the "culture" of hip-hop, a life spent in pursuit of something that was maybe never there at all. Click the link below to read or listen to "2216".
Bill Quigley
Obama's Multiracial Coalition and the Politics of Racial Reconciliation
19 Mar 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon As the presidential campaign heats up, the precarious nature of Obama's "multiracial coalition" along with the nature of the "racial reconciliation" his candidacy brings becomes more. Under the Obama version of "racial reconciliation" the opinions…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran
27 Mar 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley It took a force of rebellious generals and senior intelligence officers to thwart the Bush regime’s plans to attack Iran, just a few months ago. But the Bush/Cheney war criminals are intent on an armed assault on Iran before the clock runs out…