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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Labor Vows ‘We Will Not Be Made Expendable'
06 Jun 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The global "Race to the Bottom" is fast erasing Blacks from the ever-shrinking unionized labor force, an historical crisis that demands an all-out campaign to dismantle the corporate agenda. Black Labor, which has always seen itself as an extension of the Black…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Fox News, the CBC and the Indictment of "Dollar Bill" Jefferson
06 Jun 2007
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by managing editor Bruce Dixon Both "liberal" Democrats and the far-right Fox News network have used the indictment of Louisiana congressman "Dollar Bill" Jefferson for their own ends. Liberals who couldn't get worked up about the disenfranchisement…
Bill Quigley
Why Cuba Is Exporting Health Care to the U.S.
11 Jun 2007
by Sarah van Gelder
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Racism and TV in Venezuela
13 Jun 2007
by Richard Gott A viewer of Venezuela's RCTV's game shows, newscasts and talk shows would have been led to believe that Venezuela was a lily-white nation, rather than a country that is 70 percent indigenous and African descended. When President Hugo Chavez yanked the racist outlet's license…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Stop and Search in Britain: Police Racism, Then and Now
13 Jun 2007
If there is anyplace in the world worse than the United States in terms of racism in the criminal justice system, it is Britain. Although Black Londoners made up only six percent of the population, they comprised 44 percent of those arrested for "suspicion" - or "sus" - of somehow being criminals…
Bill Quigley
Singing Soprano, While Dissin’ the Bass: America’s White Thug Love & Ethnically Acceptable Violence
13 Jun 2007
by BAR contributing editor Dr. Edward Rhymes America's love affair with the gangster-killer-thug Soprano family proves beyond doubt that white violence is exalted in the culture, while Black violence is Public Enemy Number One. Tony Soprano needs a high-priced psychiatrist,…
Bill Quigley
High John and the Triple Seven Blacks Convene
18 Jul 2007
by BAR contributing editor Harold Bridgeman The author is a satirist, with a compelling message. The story begins 100 years ago, when the "Triple Seven Blacks" met to solve the African American problem. Since 1907, and then a half a century later, it ain't solved yet, so the good Doctors had to…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Barack Obama’s Game: Erase the “Black Problem”
25 Jul 2007
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Posing as a modern-day Joshua, a successor to the Civil Rights "Moses generation," Barack Obama actually represents the opposite. The senator is thoroughly corporate, with no interest in blowing any bugles to break down walls of…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Black America and Palestine
18 Apr 2007
by BAR Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley African Americans are the group that most supports the rights of Palestinians to be treated justly - which makes Blacks the most vulnerable targets of the Israel lobby. Effectively controlling the U.S. Congress, the Israel lobby creates…
Bill Quigley
Death, Black Hoes, and White Devils
18 Apr 2007
by Dedrick Muhammad What has America really "overcome" since Dr. Martin Luther King's famous 1963 speech on the Washington Mall? In the same week that MSNBC patted itself on the back for - finally - firing Don Imus, white students at Duke University held a pep rally in support of lacrosse…