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Mark P. Fancher
Kip’s Folly: A Black Commander for U.S. Forces in Africa
14 Nov 2007
by Mark P. Fancher From Clarence Thomas to Colin Powell to Condoleezza Rice - and many more African American mercenaries in between - U.S. rulers have had little problem finding Black front men and women for their intrigues and adventures. And so it is with Africom, the U.S. military's newly…
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Bars and Bills for Burge: Bar Morning Shot Mon., Jan. 31
31 Jan 2011
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Heroes and Hypocrites: Black Caucus Shattered on Iraq
28 Mar 2007
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Racism: The Growth Engine of the American Prison Gulag
21 Feb 2007
by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford The U.S. prison system is projected to suck up 200,000 additional bodies between now and 2011, half of them African American. The burden of the Gulag, which has grown eightfold since 1970, is unbearable for Black America, whose institutions and dreams have for…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
2008's Ten Worst Places to be Black
30 Jan 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce A. Dixon Corporate media, which conceal much about the state of things beyond our borders, work hard to obscure the facts of life for Americans too, including the state of Black America. In this year of symbolic firsts and "never befores" Black Agenda…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Busting A Black Move On the Black Caucus
07 Mar 2007
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon
Gary Olson
Black Radio Needs News, Not Michael Baisden’s Slanders
14 Nov 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Syndicated hustler Michael Baisden, eager to become kingpin of Jena Six fundraising, launched a slanderous campaign against every Black group that doesn't have access to ABC radio's corporate reach. Baisden's principal target: Color of Change, the mass-based…
Pat Gowens
A Woman's Response to ‘The Oprah Effect'
01 Nov 2006
Do Oprah's producers lie to audiences and guests to make political points? Pat Gowens, a one-time guest on "Oprah" recounts her experience. "Oprah reinforces the US war on the poor and unequivocally supports white male supremacy."
Bill Quigley
Freedomways Magazine and the Roots of the Fight for Rights
01 Nov 2006
Veteran activist, intellect and writer Jean Carey Bond was a presenter at a recent symposium on James and Esther Jackson, The American Left, and the Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement at New York University. Dr. Bond's remarks explored the history of Freedomways and Esther Jackson's role…
Nathaniel X. Turner
Black Holes in the Global Reich
21 Mar 2007
by John Maxwell The so-called free market" capitalist model that was supposed to lift the "Third World" out of economic underdevelopment has instead led to a disastrous "race to the bottom of the barrel." The spiral into mass misery threatens to make Jamaica's beaches, farmlands and forests…