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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Zombies, Vampires and Capitalism
11 Jul 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Zombies, ghouls and all manner of bloodsuckers actually exist, denizens of a capitalist system in terminal decline, but not yet dead. “We are endangered by monsters who can and will eat us alive, but unlike the creatures depicted in…
Elliot Ross
Africa: The Failed Index from Hell
11 Jul 2012
by Elliot Ross The United States and its media are constantly rating other nations as “failed states – while never considering America’s own failings. Foreign Policy magazine has shoveled almost the entire African continent into the failed pile, but factors such as “European…
Kali Akuno
Every 40 Hours: New Report by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Highlights Human Rights Violations Against Black People
11 Jul 2012
by Kali Akuno Extra-judicial executions of African Americans occur with appalling, near-daily regularity in the United States, according to a report by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. Such carnage demands the creation of a movement that “challenges the various forms of state…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The Black Press Is Dead. Get Over It
12 Jul 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When will the black press get as excited enough over mass incarceration, the epidemic of solitary confinement, the plague of urban school closings and privatizations, over gentrification and joblessness as they are about reality TV and what Michelle is…
Wilmer J. Leon III
America Is Not Broke, It’s Broken
18 Jul 2012
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III The Right claims “entitlements” are the root of America’s financial crisis, and that the “job creators” – their ridiculous euphemism for the rich – are under siege. “Welfare” – meaning any benefits dribbled to the poor – is something the country can no longer…
Sikivu Hutchinson
Wages of White Affirmative Action: Predatory Lending & The Ghetto
18 Jul 2012
by Sikivu Hutchinson Whites are “returning” to South Central Los Angeles, the place they left for the suburbs in federally subsidized waves generations ago. The lure: cheap housing in neighborhoods savaged by color-coded lending policies. And so it is that whites whose exit from South…
Ezili Danto
Foreign Investment in Haiti Means Death and Repression, Part II: The Constant US Bait and Switch
18 Jul 2012
by Ezili Dantò The United States seems to have only one policy towards Haiti: force and exploitation. U.S. overseers market the captive republic as a low-wage paradise for foreign businesses. “The Obama Administration’s application of disaster capitalism and the shock doctrine is like…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Demonizing the Poor
18 Jul 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Americans don’t know how bad off they are, compared to citizens of nations that have real social safety nets. Their ignorance is encouraged by newspapers like the New York Times, which recently devoted thousands of words to blaming…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
GA Prison Hunger Strike Continues, Families Protest, State Officials Stonewall, Feds Refuse to Intervene
18 Jul 2012
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Georgia prison officials, who denied the existence of a hunger strike its first four weeks, finally acknowledged that some prisoners are on their 36th day without food. But they refused to meet with families and citizens who came to its Forsyth GA headquarters…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Concept of “Black” Elections
18 Jul 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford When a Black candidate that fails to gain majority Black support wins an election, is that a Black victory, or a Black defeat? The Black Is Back Coalition holds a national conference in Newark, New Jersey, on August 18, to explore the potential and…