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by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The U.S. Press and Repression in the Obama Era: A New Awakening or Political Theater?
28 May 2013
by Ajamu Baraka The corporate media only cried foul when their own perceived privileges are threatened, even as President Obama’s “approach to civil liberties turned his administration into act three of the Bush administration.” The bourgeois press are now discovering that marginalized peoples are…
Ajamu Nangwaya
Reject Obama's Personal Responsibility Snake-Oil
29 May 2013
by Ajamu Nangwaya In The Mind of Obama, white supremacy, sexism and capitalist exploitation are nonexistent or merely minor hurdles that can be overcome through personal responsibility and discipline. The First Black U.S. President “is under the illusion that his occupation of the White House is an…
Dayo Olaide
Nigeria Risks Losing Its North
28 May 2013
by Dayo Olaide Nigeria’s northern region is victimized by an ethnic politics of “winner-takes-all” that “is dangerous and unsustainable.” The crisis is exacerbated by a northern political elite that hopes “to disempower the people, minimizing potential resistance to their power and political…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Medals to Birmingham's 4 Little Girls, Sleazy Billionaires to the Cabinet: Brand Obama VS Real World Obama
29 May 2013
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The president signed off on medals for the 4 little girls murdered in a Birmingham church bombing 50 years ago. In the same week, he justified the secret drone murder of Somali, Yemeni & Pakistani children, appointed a union-busting, gentrifying Chicago…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Role Model… Or, Fast Food For Thought?
04 Jun 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner If there’s one thing Black children don’t need, it’s a Role Model like this one.
Alice Walker
Open letter from Alice Walker to Alicia Keys
04 Jun 2013
by Alice Walker The African American writer Alice Walker is urging songstress Alicia Keys to act in the spirit of her own people’s history of social action, and cancel a scheduled concert in Israel. “We changed our country fundamentally,” said Walker, “and the various boycotts of Israeli…
Yvette Carnell
Why Black Liberals Need to Reclaim The Black Agenda From The Black Church
04 Jun 2013
by Yvette Carnell The Black Church’s central role in the African American Freedom Movement, is a myth. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “himself lamented the ‘apathy of the Negro ministers’ and their interpretation of Christianity,” writes the author. In fact, “the presence of culture crusaders, who…
Mark P. Fancher
Memo to the International Criminal Court: Put Up or Shut Up About Not Targeting Africans
04 Jun 2013
by Mark P. Fancher Is the International Criminal Court guilty of “international racial profiling”? The ICC has managed to indict only Africans for crimes against humanity, “while ignoring numerous civilian deaths caused by U.S. air strikes in Afghanistan and other crimes committed by non-Africans…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Syria and the Sham of “Humanitarian Intervention”
04 Jun 2013
by Ajamu Baraka The doctrine of “humanitarian” military intervention “has developed into the most effective ideological weapon the liberal human rights community provided Western imperialism since the fall of the Soviet State.” In truth, it is simply an updated form of the “white man’s burden” –…
Abayomi Azikiwe
Libyan Rebels and International Criminal Court Battle Over Gaddafi’s Son
04 Jun 2013
Libya, delivered into the hands of lawlessness by the U.S. and its NATO allies, refuses to turn over Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of slain leader Muammar Gaddafi, to the International Criminal Court. Meanwhile, the ICC, which confines its prosecutions to Africans and “has been utilized to bolster…