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Omali Yeshitela
Obama, the Elections and the Struggle for Justice, Peace, a Better Life and Black Power
29 Aug 2012
by Omali Yeshitela The U.S. electoral system, like American society at-large, is dominated by wealthy capitalists. What use, then, is electoral politics to African Americans? The Black Is Back Coalition explored that question at its national conference, in Newark, New Jersey. “We must…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Closer Than You Think: Top 15 Things Romney and Obama Agree On
29 Aug 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Republicans and Democrats, like Romney and Obama are of one mind on many more things than they disagree about. From war and empire to their policies on Big Ag, Big Energy, “clean coal and safe nuclear power,” and the war on drugs their areas of agreement are…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Democrats Show Their True Colors
05 Sep 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Democrats in Charlotte deserve the president they nominate. They are union members with no self-respect, African Americans who ask nothing for their own people, “anti-war” folks who oppose only Republican wars – and the fat cats…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
If The Shoe Fits...
05 Sep 2012
by Raymond Nat Turner “In our marching shoes, yes, we can Discover trails less traveled Connecting us with sage spirits Sampling James Brown with John Brown”
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Why I Won't Vote (1956)
05 Sep 2012
by W.E.B. Dubois On October 20, 1956, W. E. B. Du Bois delivered this eloquent indictment of US politics and why he won't vote in the upcoming Presidential election. Du Bois condemns both Democrats and Republicans for their indifferent positions on the influence of corporate…
keith harmon snow
Low-Intensity Warfare In Africa: The US "Policy Wonks" Behind Covert Warfare & Humanitarian Fascism, Part 1 of 2
05 Sep 2012
by Keith Harmon Snow From the 1980s to today, an elite group of Western intelligence operatives have backed low-intensity guerrilla warfare in certain African 'hotspots'. Mass atrocities in the Great Lakes and Sudan can be linked to Roger Winter, a pivotal U.S. operative whose 'team' was…
Benjamin Woods
Black Secularists and The Church
05 Sep 2012
by Benjamin Woods African American mythology tells us that the Black Freedom Movement was born in the church. That’s because “the Black church has had better propagandists than Black freethinkers.” But freethinkers also populate the liberation pantheon, while the church has sometimes…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
What Obama Has Wrought
05 Sep 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The meticulously scripted spectacles of the two corporate party conventions are very poor backdrops for clear thinking – but luckily, the ordeals are almost over. What remains after the tents are folded, are the crimes of this administration and its…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Slick Willy Rides Again!
12 Sep 2012
by Raymond Nat Turner The Great White foundation father, Vice- Roy of Haiti and Harlem, nurse- Maid of NAFTA, demon of de- Regulation
Black is Back Coalition
Break the Silence of War and Oppression: Black Is Back Coalition to Rally and March in DC in November
12 Sep 2012
from the Black is Back Coalition On the heels of its national conference last month in Newark, New Jersey, the Black Is Back Back Coalition will rally under the theme “Breaking the Silence,” in Washington, DC, on November 3 and 4. “Our people are enduring oppressive conditions that can…