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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Barack and Hillary Show Plays Selma
07 Mar 2007
by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford The double-church drive-by in Selma, Alabama showed the utter vapidity and lack of substance of the Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaigns. As the corporate media checked their applause meters and "Amen" counters, both corporatist candidates plied the Black…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Black-Latino Future
25 Oct 2006
by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford When as many as two million immigrants and their supporters, most of them Latino, turned out for demonstrations against draconian undocumented worker legislation in cities across the nation this spring, everywhere the question was raised: Is this the new…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Supreme Court
22 Apr 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley When every other argument fails, those who urge Blacks and progressives to stick with the Democratic Party finally pull out their clincher: We must vote Democratic to keep the Republicans from stacking the courts. Democrats are then free to…
Bill Quigley
Eshu’s blues: Media circus throws another temper tantrum over Sotomayor nomination
10 Jun 2009
by michael hureaux perez Opponents of Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination claim to be fighting against the rise of an “activist court” – “which is what the ruling class of this country calls any court which occasionally intervenes on behalf of historically repressed peoples.” Such politicians are much…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Sotomayor Hype
03 Jun 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
The Real News Network
Glen Ford: Supreme Court Kills Affirmative Action
26 Jun 2013
Affirmative action barely breathing, and barely affirmative action... BAR's Glen Ford on the Real News Network Published June 25, 2013 at the Real News Network, where you can find much more news updated daily, at http://therealnews.com.
The Real News Network
Supreme Court Kneecaps Voting Rights Act: The Real News Network Talks to Bruce A. Dixon
26 Jun 2013
Supreme Court kneecaps the voting rights act... BAR's Bruce A. Dixon on the Real News Network Real News Network, where you can find much more news updated every day at http://therealnews.com.
Colin Jenkins
Political Crossover: The Troubling Emergence of "Black Reaganism"
26 Jun 2013
by Colin Jenkins The nation’s top Black Reaganite is quite open about his admiration for “The Gipper.” President Obama takes every opportunity to praise his racist, reactionary predecessor, and to emulate his politics. So do lots of Democrats of all colors. The truth is, “Reaganism never really…
Ronnie Kasrils
How the ANC's Faustian Pact Sold Out South Africa's Poorest
26 Jun 2013
by Ronnie Kasrils A veteran of the South African freedom struggle and its Black-led government says the African National Congress’ soul “was eventually lost to corporate power: we were entrapped by the neoliberal economy – or, as some today cry out, we ‘sold our people down the river.’"
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
RUN SNOWDEN RUN! Dirty Lies, Dirty Wars, Dirty Secrets
26 Jun 2013
by Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and King Downing Whistle-blowing can consist of more than simply telling a newspaper about wrongdoing by the State. Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange join the likes of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, in opposing the rule of the unjust. “Some…