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Tim Wise
Bullying Pulpit: Racism, Barack Obama and the Selective Call for Personal Responsibility
21 May 2013
by Tim Wise Once again, Barack Obama scolds Black men, this time at Morehouse College. The author, an anti-racist activist, writes: “To preach hard work to these men, as if they had never heard of it — as if they now intended to kick back and wait for things to be handed to them — is to not only…
Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese
Racism and Classism Are Alive and Deadly: US Public Policies Create Environmental Injustice
21 May 2013
by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese The non-white poor bear the brunt of industrial environmental degradation, yet are barely represented among those groups that purport to protect the environment. “The failure to include and respect the diversity of voices of those affected by unfair practices is…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Can Black Politics Be Revived?
22 May 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Obama’s presidency has been disastrous for African Americans, who have been economically crushed and disconnected from their historical roots in social struggle. Political fantasists now urge us to put our faith in demographics, claiming that change will inevitably…
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BLACK AGENDA TV - Wealthy South African Blacks Front For Corporate Power; From Dekalb GA to Detroit MI & More
22 May 2013
by The Editors Glen Ford interviews Molefi Ndlovu, on the role of "Black Diamonds" black millionaires in South Africa who front for the powerful, speaks on black faces in the Obama cabinet, and Bruce Dixon on the hijacking of elected governments from black Georgia to black Detroit. Black Agenda…
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DJ Sese - Politics of Drugs mixtape
27 May 2013
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DJ Sese - Politics of Drugs mixtape
27 May 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Chickens Roost in Woolwich
29 May 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Two British-Nigerians frightened the great former colonial empire to death by nearly beheading a soldier, in London. Yet British and other western politicians have far more blood on their hands than the young Africans. “This killing was no more…
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Emergency Alert: Lynne Stewart In Grave Danger
29 May 2013
From LynneStewart.org Lynne Stewart, the people’s lawyer serving ten years in federal prison for zealously representing her client, needs her friends, comrades and supporters to make calls to the Powers-That-Be on Thursday, May 30. Her life depends on it.
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Malcolm X Tic-Tac-Toe in the Age of…Austerity?
28 May 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner Tic-Tac-Toe, X versus O
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Perpetual War – and Obama’s Perpetual Con Game
29 May 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama’s perpetual scam machine is in high gear – which signals another expansion of war and war-powers accumulation. The president played the reluctant warrior who doesn’t really want the limitless powers he has arrogated to himself. But, what he’s…