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  • by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
    Imagine Urban Economic Development Without The Bankers On Our Backs
    08 Aug 2012
    by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Why can't a county or city dig a hole, or lay a mile of light rail without making new millionaires out of half a dozen bankers and their favorite lawyers? Why does all urban development have to be gentrification? Is government's real function to guarantee that…
  • Paul Street
    White Racial Delusion, 50 Years After the March on Washington
    06 Aug 2013
    by Paul Street White America lives in a world of distortion. Only one-third of whites believe the killing of Trayvon Martin was “unjustified,” versus overwhelming numbers of Blacks. And, “for the first time, a majority of whites preposterously believed that whites have replaced blacks as the…
  • Tom Stephens
    The Rebirth of Detroit
    06 Aug 2013
    by Tom Stephens There are three Detroits: a gentrifying central business district; a larger Black and Latino city of poverty and oppression; and the rich surrounding suburbs. “The first two ‘Detroits’ within the city are to be conformed to better serve the wealthy, white suburban periphery of the…
  • by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
    Under Obama, Tyranny is the New Transparency
    07 Aug 2013
    by Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Kevin Berends President Obama has instituted a kind of “equal opportunity retaliation” regime against whistleblowers. “All that was required of Manning and Snowden to harvest the bounties of white privilege was that they look the other way when faced with war…
  • by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
    Freedom Rider: Tar Sands Hell in Detroit
    07 Aug 2013
    by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley A vast pile of toxic waste, 40 feet high, sits by the Detroit River, the symbol and substance of the contempt in which Black urban dwellers are held by the Lords of Capital. The Koch brothers, who own the poison petcoke pile, are far more…
  • Bill Quigley
    Florida “Dream Defenders” Confront Racialized Justice System
    06 Aug 2013
    by Bill Quigley The young people occupying the Florida governor’s office seek more than just repeal of Stand Your Ground laws. They are crafting and proposing “a full legislative package to challenge the criminalization of our generation.”
  • by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
    FCC To Finally Rule On Cost of Prison Phone Calls This Friday
    08 Aug 2013
    by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon A few years ago, one of my children was a federal prisoner in California, on the other side of the continent. I had a decent job, and could afford to fly out 2 or 3 times a year to visit, and we wrote. But there was no substitute for the Sunday night phone call…
  • Wangui Kimari
    Brazil-Afrikan State Collaborations and the Tokenization of “Cultural Affinity”
    06 Aug 2013
    by Wangui Kimari There’s lots of talk about the cultural ties that bind Brazil, the economic dynamo, to Africa, ancestral home to half Brazil’s population and current source of much of its imports. However, “if this was a relationship premised on deep ‘cultural affinity’ as is often stated, Afrikan…
  • by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
    Stand Your Ground and Beyond: The Whole Criminal Justice System is Arrayed Against Blacks
    08 Aug 2013
    by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The battle against Stand Your Ground laws must be “one front in the war against the legitimacy of a criminal justice system that is fundamentally hostile to the Black presence in the United States.” The task requires a mass Movement – one that avoids the clutches…
  • by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
    Sunshine State of mind
    06 Aug 2013
    by Raymond Nat Turner Just in case one misunderstood Ground on which this patriot stood Look up the town called Rosewood “Creepy crackers” could, would, should!

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