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Pascal Robert
The Importance of Haiti
14 May 2013
by Pascal Robert Haiti this week marks its 210th anniversary as the world’s first Black republic. The descendants of Haiti’s self-emancipators have been forced to defend their national sovereignty in each succeeding decade. Yet, their struggle for freedom was “the single most…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
U.S. Guilty of Genocide in Guatemala Should be Real Headline
15 May 2013
by Ajamu Baraka Now that former Guatemalan president Efrain Rios Montt has been convicted of genocide, it’s time for the “hegemonic puppeteer,” the United States, to be put on trial. “U.S. officials were fully aware of the pogrom against the Ixil people in the mountains of Guatemala at the very…
Jeffrey B. Perry
Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race
14 May 2013
by Jeffrey B. Perry The White Man was invented in colonial America “in response to class struggle,” according to the classic work of Theodore W. Allen, now republished. The conferring of white privilege was “not only ruinous for African-Americans; they were also against the class interest of…
Jacob Chamberlain
Cornel West: Obama “Is a War Criminal”
14 May 2013
by Jacob Chamberlain “I would rather have a white president fundamentally dedicated to eradicating poverty and enhancing the plight of working people than a black president tied to Wall Street and drones," activist-academic Dr. Cornel West told British journalists. Barack Obama, like his…
Your World News
The More Effective Evil
15 May 2013
by Your World News For some time now, Black Agenda Report has been calling the Obama administration not the lesser of two but the more effective evil, able to enact measures that white Democrats or Republicans could not without massive public opposition. Your World News Films, directed by…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin on Corporate Personhood
21 May 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner If corporations are people, what kind of people are they?
William T. Hathaway
Bards Behind Bars: Prison Literature In The USA
21 May 2013
by William T. Hathaway Prison literature is a major component of U.S. literature – as it should be, since the U.S. prison population is, proportionately and in raw numbers, the largest on earth. There are insights in incarceration. “Prisons can crush some psyches and produce diamonds of art and…
Chris Hedges
Rise Up or Die
21 May 2013
by Chris Hedges As more and more of the nation is transformed into “sacrifice zones” like Detroit and Camden, New Jersey, with civil liberties stripped bare, the biosphere pushed to the point of no return, and the corporate security estate triumphant, “it is time to employ the harsh language of…
Pascal Robert
Why Obama Will Walk Away Unscathed by the Current Political Scandals
22 May 2013
by Pascal Robert Don’t worry about Barack Obama. He’s far too useful to the rulers of America to be derailed by scandal, or even a combination of scandals. “Obama’s neoliberal government giveaways to private corporations and mercenary foreign policy already make him too valuable to the guardians of…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Obama “Dog Whistle”
22 May 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Obamas put a double-whammy on Black people, low-rating The Race at two institutions of higher learning, for the benefit of white people. In Maryland, Michelle lambasted those “mythical” creatures that think learning is “white,” while her…