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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama Obliterates Iran
11 Jun 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley What Israel wants from the Americans, Israel gets - and in spades from Barack Obama. Along with Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Obama bent his knees to the breaking point to please the annual conference of AIPAC, the American Israel Public…
Bill Quigley
Cynthia McKinney Congratulates Obama
11 Jun 2008
Candidate points to her own campaign's comprehensive platform Barack Obama is not the only Black candidate in the presidential race, and he's certainly not the most progressive. Former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, running for the Green Party's top slot on a Power to the People platform…
Paul Street
Seven Reasons Not to Get Overly Excited About the Fact That Obama is Black
11 Jun 2008
by Paul Street Although much of Black public opinion considers Barack Obama's primary wins as collective victories for African Americans, the fact remains that white voters made his success possible. They found him acceptable; he passed the white test. Activist and author Paul Street offers…
Bill Quigley
Racial Sins of the Past Live On, Multiplying Pain and Suffering
18 Jun 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford For a very long time, clear disparities between Blacks and whites in medical outcomes were dismissed as the fault of African American ignorance, superstition, or bad diets. Finally, the statistically provable truth could no longer be denied: medical…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Bronx Bombers Grand Theft
28 May 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If sports are supposed to improve the moral character of individuals and societies, how come the games have the opposite effect on team owners and the local officials who help them steal the pants off America's cities. True to its reputation…
Bill Quigley
U.S. Incites Secession South of the Border
28 May 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford All of sudden, three secessionist "movements" have sprung up in South America, all of them located in fossil fuel-rich regions of countries resisting U.S. domination of the hemisphere. Venezuela and its allies Ecuador and Bolivia face revolts of…
Bill Quigley
Miami’s Urban Beach Week: A Gathering of Cops
28 May 2008
by Mel Reeves Every year several hundred thousand Black youths gather at Miami's South Beach for Urban Beach Week, and each year the local police show them that African Americans are not wanted. Mass arrests, approaching or exceeding 1,000 over several days and nights, seem to have no rhyme or…
Bill Quigley
Obama Resigns From Black Nation
04 Jun 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford How far is Barack Obama willing to run from the very same Black nationalism that was fundamental to his victories in so many state Democratic primaries? The nominee-apparent is in pell-mell flight from everything that does not conform to his own "race-neutral"…
Bill Quigley
The American Electoral Charade
04 Jun 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Two candidates with almost identical positions on virtually every issue fight to exhaustion over non-substantial concerns for months, and will doubtless soon celebrate having achieved "unity." Tweedle-dum Hillary Clinton and Tweedle-dee Barack Obama…
Bill Quigley
America's Racial Litmus Test : Farrakhan is not the Problem
04 Jun 2008
by Tim Wise Those whites, and Jewish Americans in particular, that demand Blacks denounce Minister Louis Farrakhan as the price of entrance to "respectable" circles are "merely using Farrakhan [to] divert attention from institutional discrimination, institutionalized white privilege and power,…