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Sikivu Hutchinson
Mad Science or School-to-Prison? Criminalizing Black Girls
07 May 2013
by Sikivu Hutchinson Studies show that Black children do not commit more offenses in the classroom than whites and Latinos. Nevertheless, “in many American classrooms black children are treated like ticking time bomb savages.” Black girls are suspended from school more than any other ethnicity –…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Suuupppppreme Ttttttterrrrror Tttttthreat!!
07 May 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner Capture her and bring her back to justice, Before she can blowup the Black community, With weapons of mass destruction: credit Default swaps, collateralized debt obligations And sinister sub-prime schemes siphoning off Generations of wealth.
Pascal Robert
Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Danger of the Black Cultural Tour Guide
07 May 2013
by Pascal Robert How does one become rated “the best writer on race today?” By telling white people what they want to hear. Ta-Nehisi Coates is “the new favorite Black cultural tour guide of the chattering class” because he “talks about racism in a way that makes White Liberals feel good.”
Tom Stephens
EMFing Democracy: Destroying Detroit In Order To “Save” It
07 May 2013
by Tom Stephens A system in terminal decay has no mercy. The Emergency Financial Manager regime imposed on Detroit is “an entirely new and unprecedented form of antidemocratic local government directly controlled by the corporate agents of ‘the 1%” that is designed to steal everything: land, water…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Support Assata Shakur, At Your Own Risk
08 May 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Thanks to The First Black President and The First Black Attorney General, “the only people safe in speaking of or contacting Shakur are those who mean her harm.” To speak of Black liberation, its heroes and history, is a crime of terror…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Labor Too Uppity for the Fields: Guest Workers Needed
08 May 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford By his silence, President Obama is giving the wink and nod to guest worker programs under immigration reform, further institutionalizing the displacement of African Americans from farm work. “The farm owners, like their historical brethren, seek the closest…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Not Your Daddy's COINTELPRO: Obama Brands Assata Shakur "Most Wanted Terrorist"
08 May 2013
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Assata Shakur could not have been named “most wanted terrorist” without the explicit approval of the first black president and his attorney general. In doing so, they have declared open war on the black liberation movement, something that J. Edgar Hoover and…
Norman Richmond
Open Letter to President Obama: What About We People Who Are Darker Than Blue?
07 May 2013
by Norman (Otis) Richmond President Obama likes to associate himself with “change.” But his altering of the name of the month set aside to celebrate Black music is quite unwelcome. “By not recognizing Black Music Month and changing the name in 2009 you have taken a step backward Mr. President.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: When Cops and Prosecutors are Criminals
15 May 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley It should surprise no one that the world’s biggest and harshest criminal injustice system puts many innocent people in jail, disproportionately Black. “America’s addiction to racism and violence creates outright criminality among police and…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
AQ-AC and Associated Forces Strike Again!
14 May 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner This is a tale of “Cowardly, cold-blooded killers, the Worst of the worst, striking again, Killing Americans…”